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Run Forest Run

A little boy named Forrest Gump lives in Alabama with his Momma. She rents out rooms of The Gump House to travelers. They even rented a room to the King of Rock-N-Roll. Forrest danced as The King played the guitar. His Momma would tell him not to bother the guest. Forrest and his Momma were walking in town and he seen The King on a television performing the dance moves that Forrest had shown him. Momma Gump was a mother on a mission. She made sure that Forrest would be going to the county school with the other kids, even using some persuasion with the principal. On the first day of school Forrest met the second love of his life. He met Jenny on the bus, she spoke so sweetly allowing him to sit with her when all others rejected him. When they were walking home from school one day some bullies started chasing Forrest. Jenny yelled "Run Forrest Run" and he ran right out of his leg braces. She was his only friend other than his Momma. He and Jenny were like "peas and carrots". They were best friends all the way up through high school. They were walking home from high school one day and Forrest was being chased by bullies, Jenny told him to run and he did just that. That is when he got recognized by a college football team and he became a star player at The University of Alabama. Forrest played so much football that his time in college went by very fast. Because he was such a great player, he was placed on the All American Team. He even got to meet the President of the United States. Shortly after that he graduated from college. Forrest decided to go into the army after graduating college. On their way to boot camp on the first day Forrest met Bubba. After getting out of the army Bubba wants to build his own shrimping business. He asked Forrest to do it with him and they will split the company 50/50. Forrest thought that was a fine idea. Forrest and Bubba met Lt Dan who will be the one to give them orders while in Vietnam. He would get lonely in the night time missing his Momma and Jenny. Forrest took a bus to Memphis to watch Jenny perform on a stage. He thought that her dream of becoming a performer had come true. Little did he know that what she was doing was not her dream come true job. She was just doing it for the money. He loved Jenny so much that he would do anything for her. And just as quickly as he found her, she was gone again. The army was sent to Vietnam and Forrest liked it over there. He liked it because there was always somewhere to go and always something to do. Lt Dan would tell them to "keep their feet dry" and "don't do anything stupid to get killed". Forrest would write Jenny nearly everyday to let her know that he was ok. He was hopeful that she would write him back one day. It rained everyday for four months. Then all of a sudden one day the rain stopped and the war started. There were bombs falling from the sky, explosions all around. Forrest rescued several injured men while he was looking for Bubba. He starts to help Lt Dan but receives resistance from him because he wanted to go down like a hero. Forrest is still on a mission to find Bubba even though he has been shot himself in the buttocks. He finally finds Bubba and carries him to the edge of the river bank away from the bombs and explosions. Bubba dies while Forrest is holding him in his arms. Forrest recovers in a hospital from the bullet wound in his buttocks. He enjoys the ice cream that they give him. As he's laying in the hospital bed a delivery man hands him all of his letters that have been returned from Jenny. She did not get any of them. He started playing ping pong while he was in the hospital, and it came very natural to him. He got so good at ping pong that he joined the special services team. He became a national celebrity from playing ping pong. Feeling cheated out of his destiny, Lt Dan yells at Forrest but he thought that he was doing the right thing by saving him. Forrest gets awarded the medal of honor for saving the lives of all of those men including Lt Dan. He takes everything literally, even to the point of showing his bullet wound to the president while receiving the medal of honor. While Forrest and his Momma were in Washington DC he walked around to see the monuments. He gives a speech at the Washington Monument and guess who just happens to be there? Jenny! As usual he wants to protect her. He sees her boyfriend slap her and he punches the man in the face. He tells Jenny that he would never hurt her and would be a good boyfriend for her. Before she gets on a bus with her boyfriend Forrest gives her his medal of honor. And just like that she is gone out of his life again. Forrest saved money that he received from sponsors during his ping pong days and bought a shrimp boat just as he and Bubba had planned. He named the boat "Jenny". He wrote Lt Dan about his shrimp boat and he came to the dock to see for himself. The first day out shrimping was not very successful. So Forrest started going to church and praying for shrimp. A big storm came through and "Jenny" was the only boat to withstand it. They became rich and famous and were featured on the cover of Fortune magazine. Just as he promised Forrest took half of the money to Bubba's Momma and also paid his respects to Bubba's grave. He was out on the boat named "Jenny #1" when he got the call that his Momma was sick. She told him "death is part of living" and "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get". The cancer took his Momma's life on a Tuesday. After his Momma's death Forrest was out mowing the grass thinking about Jenny. Then out of nowhere she came walking up the driveway. For the next few days they were like peas and carrots. Forrest asked Jenny to marry him. They spent the night together and just like that she was gone out of his life again. After Jenny left he put on his running shoes and ran for 3 years, 2 months, 14 days, and 16 hours. And just like that he decided that his running days were over and he went home. He received a letter from Jenny giving him directions to her home in Savannah Georgia. Jenny tells him that the little boy sitting there is his son and that he is very smart. She also explains to him that she is sick with a virus and the doctors don't know what it is. Jenny asked Forrest to marry her and so they got married with Lt Dan in attendance with his fiancé. Jenny died on a Saturday and was buried under their special tree. He sits at her grave and tells her stories about their son. He also tells her how much he misses her. As he puts Forrest Jr on the bus for the first day of school he tells him that he loves him and that he will be at the bus stop when he gets back.

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Content/Development--40%
The essay doesn't use proper vocabulary: -10% (This needs to relate the movie back to psychology, not just summarize it) The essay doesn't give specific examples: -10%

**Style/Mechanics--30%**
If the in-text citations are missing: -10% If the references are missing: -10% =Final Grade: 60%=