Forrest gump analysis

1. Forrest Gump is a novel about a mentally challenged man who overcomes his handicap and explores the world in an adventurous way. Gump has no direction in life; he just spends each day discovering more and more about the world, without any plan or schedule to guide him. "...I am tole they is lettin me out of the Army early. It don't take but a day or so, and then I am gone...Now I …

…with the dynamic world he lives in. The second conflict is that every time he manages to find his good friend Jenny Curran, he does something to scare her away. He never manages to have her remain with him, even though she's the only woman he ever wanted. They are together for a little while, but then he manages to ruin that relationship. They conceive a child together, but she is married to someone else.