Sociology Forrest Gump
Forest Gump
Despite his low IQ, Forrest Gump leads a truly charmed life, taking part in many of the most memorable events in his lifetime. Without trying, Forrest teaches Elvis Presley to dance, becomes a football star, meets John F. Kennedy, serves with honor in Vietnam, meets Lyndon Johnson, speaks at an anti-war rally at the Washington Monument, hangs out with the Yippies, defeats the Chinese national team in table tennis, meets Richard Nixon, discovers the break-in at the Watergate, opens a profitable shrimping business, becomes an original investor in Apple Computers, and decides to run back and forth across the country for several years. Meanwhile, as his life goes by, Forrest never forgets about Jenny, the girl he loved since a boy. Jenny makes her own journey through the 1960s and 1970s in a far more troubled way than Forrest did. Towards the end, he finds out that Jenny had their child and is struggling to make ends meet, Forrest takes care of Jenny and little Forrest until her death and after. Elliott 2 Forrest Gump was from a small, tight knit town called Greenbow, Alabama where everyone knew everyone. People of the south, especially in Alabama can be considered their own social group. A social group is a collection of people who share some social relation and common identity. These people regularly interact with each other and expect one another to conform to certain ways of thinking and acting. People of the south tend to have different cultural differences than people of the north and can identify with one another with in their boundaries. The people of slow paced Greenbow are not used to any kind of change or someone who is considered different than the norm. For example, in this movie Forrest, along with many of the people he interacts with have a southern accent and use slang that is used mainly in his social group. People of the south are known for saying things like y’all, or phrases like “ugly as homemade sin”. This group of people
Despite his low IQ, Forrest Gump leads a truly charmed life, taking part in many of the most memorable events in his lifetime. Without trying, Forrest teaches Elvis Presley to dance, becomes a football star, meets John F. Kennedy, serves with honor in Vietnam, meets Lyndon Johnson, speaks at an anti-war rally at the Washington Monument, hangs out with the Yippies, defeats the Chinese national team in table tennis, meets Richard Nixon, discovers the break-in at the Watergate, opens a profitable shrimping business, becomes an original investor in Apple Computers, and decides to run back and forth across the country for several years. Meanwhile, as his life goes by, Forrest never forgets about Jenny, the girl he loved since a boy. Jenny makes her own journey through the 1960s and 1970s in a far more troubled way than Forrest did. Towards the end, he finds out that Jenny had their child and is struggling to make ends meet, Forrest takes care of Jenny and little Forrest until her death and after. Elliott 2 Forrest Gump was from a small, tight knit town called Greenbow, Alabama where everyone knew everyone. People of the south, especially in Alabama can be considered their own social group. A social group is a collection of people who share some social relation and common identity. These people regularly interact with each other and expect one another to conform to certain ways of thinking and acting. People of the south tend to have different cultural differences than people of the north and can identify with one another with in their boundaries. The people of slow paced Greenbow are not used to any kind of change or someone who is considered different than the norm. For example, in this movie Forrest, along with many of the people he interacts with have a southern accent and use slang that is used mainly in his social group. People of the south are known for saying things like y’all, or phrases like “ugly as homemade sin”. This group of people