文档介绍：Forrest Gump Forrest Gump (novel)?Forrest Gump is a 1986 novel by Winston Groom. The title character experiences adventures ranging from shrimp boating and pingpong championships to thinking about his childhood love, Jenny. Richard Nixon, the Vietnam conflict and college football are all part of the story. Throughout his life, Gump views the world simply and truthfully, even though through the course of the book and movie, he really doesn't know what he wants to do in life. Author and narrator Groom uses intonations that capture Gump's personality. Forrest Gump (Plot Summary)?Narrated by Forrest Gump, the book starts in Alabama, Forrest's home state. He introduces himself as an idiot, with an . "near 70" . Forrest is named after General Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Civil War veteran and leader of the Ku Klux Klan. His father was killed when a shipment of bananas was dropped on him. As Forrest was a newborn at the time, he does not have a memory of his father, but has never been fond of bananas, save banana pudding. His mother raised him, keeping him inside the majority of the time, so that the other children wouldn't bully him. During his first year of school, he was treated as an outcast and victim by all but Jenny Curran. He was then sent to the 'nut school,' where he went until he was sixteen years old. By this point, he was six foot six and weighed 242 lbs. He was recruited to play football at the local high Gump ?Winston Groom wrote the acclaimed Vietnam War novel Better Times Than These as well as the Prize-winning As Summers Die, and co-authored Conversations with the Enemy, which was nominated for a 1984 Pulitzer. He lives in New York City and Point Clear, Alabam. Forrest Gump Forrest Gump is difficult to ignore. This satire follows him from the football dynasties of Bear Bryant to Vietnam, and from encounters with Presidents Johnson and Nixon to pow-wows with Chairman Mao. It also takes in Harvard University, a Hollywood set, and a NASA mi