Forrest Gump In The Odyssey

Odysseus has been away at war for twenty years and appeared to be in no rush to return home. While he loves his wife very much, the love did not stop him from having affairs with two goddesses. On the other hand, Forrest Gump who absolutely adored Jenny, long before they said I do, managed to stay true to his Jenny although they were separated for years at a time before getting married. Throughout all of his ventures, he constantly thought of Jenny. In the course of Forrest’s entire voyage he never loved any other woman. Although the two characters share the same love for their significant others they each had their own attributes. Odysseus and Gump had two very different personalities; one boastful and tenacious and one very innocent and
Odysseus and Forrest Gump each have their moments of Nostalgia. In addition they each use anecdotes. Odysseus encounters many instances where he goes back to a certain point in his life. Here is Odysseus telling of his adventure of sailing to different lands. He and his men are men are raging through the island of Ismarus. “I stormed that place and killed the men who fought plunder we took, and we enslaved the women, to make division, equal shares to all-but on the spot I told them: Back, and quickly! Out to sea again!” (983). In this Odysseus is telling of his adventure of sailing to and invading different vicinities. He is recalling when he and his men are very violent and he kills everyone on this island of Ismarus.”. Forrest Gump also has many moments that are similar to Odysseus when having a flashback. In another scene during the war in Vietnam Bubba is fighting beside Forrest in the war and they are hit with bombs and all of the soldiers are falling back. Bubba was a friend from a while back in Forrest’s life. Once, everyone is safe
In both expeditions at sea, the heroes both face challenges in the course of their adventure. This is succeeding the land of the dead and after their encounter with the sirens. “And all this time, in travail, sobbing, gaining on the current, we rowed into the strait- Scylla to port and on our starboard beam Charybdis, dire gorge of the salt sea tide.” Odysseus then loses six of his men to the sea monster. It shows that Odysseus has had a rough journey thus far. This is an excerpt from Forrest Gump when the legless lieutenant Dan is yelling at God because he doesn’t believe that god is going to do anything about his situation. The situation being he and Forrest are shrimping and cannot seem to catch any shrimp. “Blow, you son-of-a-bitch! Blow! It's time for a showdown! You and me. I'm right here. Come and get me! You'll never sink this boat!” Lieutenant Dan is very angry at God because he lost his legs in the war and didn’t die in honor and he blames god for that. So he is testing god to see if he’ll do anything about it. Odysseus Also experiences loss on his expedition. For instance, this is after the remnant of Odysseus’s men lose their lives in consequence of eating Helios’s sun. He is now looking death in the face. “I used this for lashing mast and keel together. These I straddled, riding the frightful storm. Nor had I yet seen the worst of it: for now the west