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Episode 7. New York

10. Answer these questions:

1.What country did he visit when he was playing ping-pong in the special troops?

2.Who did Forrest meet in New York?

3.How did he get 25.000 dollars?

4.How did he spend his money?

5.Who helped Forrest with a shrimps’ catching?

6.How did Forrest become a millionaire?

7.Why did his mother die?

Episode 8. Running

11. Is the statement true or false? Correct the wrong statements.

1.That day, for peace I decided to go for a little run.

2.He'd just run state of Alabama.

3.He got a company for running.

4.Lieutenant Dan watched Forrest in the news report when he was running.

5.He had run for two years, two months, fourteen days, and sixteen hours.

Post-watching activities:

12. Answer some questions connected with the film:

1.What subject connects the beginning and the end of this film?

2.What country is the main hero from?

3.Can you remember some political events that are mentioned in the film? List these events.

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4.Enumerate real historical figures which appear in the film.

5.Who tells the story of Forrest Gump?

6.Where is the teller during the longest period of time?

7.What was the Forrest’s favorite proverb about silly people?

8.What’s the name of Gump’s son?

9.Why did Jenny die?

10.What did his mother always say to her son? Remember her sayings.

11.Do you think that Forrest lived a long and happy life?

12.Did Forrest agree with words about a life that were repeated by his mother or lieutenant Dan?

13.Who said it? Describe the situation.

1. Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.

2. Your boy is different. His IQ is 75.

3. Now we aren’t strangers anymore.

4.Run, Forrest! Run away.

5.You are my girl.

6.Dear God, make me a bird, so I can fly far, far away.

7.I want to go home.

8.Death is just a part of life. You have to do the best with what God gave you.

9.He is very smart. He’s one of the smartest in his class.

14. Analyze the speech of the main hero in the film (remember the words that he used, some mistakes, his communicative failures). How does it characterize him? In the book Forrest tells his story himself as in the film. But his written speech may be different. Describe Forrest basing on the film and the book. Here are some samples of his speech from the beginning of the book.

Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby. Now they says folks sposed to be kind to the af-

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flicted, but let me tell you it ain’t always that way. Even so, I got no complaints, cause I reckon I done live a pretty interestin life, so to speak. I been a idiot since I was born. My IQ is near 70, which qualifies me, so they say. Probly, tho, I’m closer to bein a imbecile or maybe even a moron, but personally, I’d rather think of mysef as like a halfwit, or somethin–an not no idiot cause when people think of a idiot, more’n likely they be thinkin of one of them Mongolian idiots–the ones with they eyes too close together what look like Chinamen an drool a lot an play with theyselfs…

When I was born, my mama name me Forrest, cause of General Nathan Bedford Forrest who fought in the Civil War. Mama always said we was kin to General Forrest’s fambly someways. An he was a great man, she say, cept’n he started up the Ku Klux Klan after the war was over an even my grandmama say they’s a bunch of no-goods.

15. Have you read the book Forrest Gump by Winston Groom? Many events of Forrest’s life weren’t included in the film. And the ending is different. Describe the endings reading the final part of the book. What ending do you like most of all? Why?

We had been in Savannah about a month, I guess, an was doin pretty good. I done my one-man band act an Sue collected the money an Dan shined people’s shoes in the crowd. One day a guy come from the newspaper an took our pitchers an ran them on the front page.

“Derelicts Loitering in Public Park,” says the caption.

One afternoon I’m settin there playin an thinkin maybe we outta go on up to Charleston when I notice a little boy standin right in front of the drums, jus starin at me.

I was playin “Ridin on the City of New Orleans,” but the little feller kep lookin at me, not smilin or nothin, but they was somethin in his eyes that kinda shined an glowed an in a wierd way reminded me of somethin. An then I look up, an standin there at the edge of the crowd was a lady, an when I saw her, I like to fainted. Lo an behole, it was Jenny Curran. She done got her hair up in rollers an she looked a bit older, too, an sort of tired, but it is Jenny all right. I am so surprised, I blowed a sour note on my harmonica by mistake, but I finished the song, an Jenny come up an take the little boy by the han.

Her eyes was beamin, an she say, “Oh, Forrest, I knew it was you when I heard the harmonica. Nobody plays the harmonica like you do.”

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“What you doin here?” I axed.

“We live here now,” she say. “Donald is assistant sales manager with some people make roofin tiles. We been here bout three years now.” Cause I quit playin, the crowd done drifted off an Jenny set down on the bench nex to me. The little boy be foolin aroun with Sue, an Sue, he done started turnin cartwheels so’s the boy would laugh.

“How come you playin in a one-man band?” Jenny axed. “Mama wrote me you had started a great big ole srimp bidness down at Bayou La Batre an was a millionaire.”

“It’s a long story,” I says.

“You didn’t get in trouble again, did you, Forrest?” she say. “Nope, not this time,” I says. “How bout you? You doin okay?” “Oh, I reckon I am,” she say. “I spose I got what I wanted.” “That your little boy?” I axed.

“Yep,” she say, “ain’t he cute?” “Shore is – what you call him?” “Forrest.”

“Forrest?” I say. “You name him after me?”

“I ought to,” she say sort of quietly. “After all, he’s haf yours.” “Hafwhat!”

“He’s your son, Forrest.” “My what!”

“Your son. Little Forrest.” I looked over an there he was, gigglin an clappin cause Sue was now doin han-stands.

“I guess I should of tole you,” Jenny say, “but when I lef Indianapolis, you see, I was pregnant. I didn’t want to say anything, I don’t know just why. I feltlike, well,there youwas, callin yourself ‘The Dunce’ anall,an Iwas gonna have this baby. An I was worried, sort of, bout how he’d turn out.” “You mean, was he gonna be a idiot?”

“Yeah, sort of,” she say. “But look, Forrest, can’t you see! He ain’t no idiot at all! He’s smart as a whip–gonna go into second grade this year. He made all ‘A’s’ last year. Can you believe it!”

“You sure he’s mine?” I axed.

“Ain’t no question of it,” she say. “He wants to be a football player when he grows up – or a astronaut.”

I look over at the little feller again an he is a strong, fine-lookin boy. “Well,” I says, “now what about, ah, your…”

“Donald?” Jenny says. “Well, he don’t know bout you. You see, I met him just after I left Indianapolis. An I was bout to start showin an all, an I

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didn’t know what to do. He’s a nice, kind man. He takes good care of me an little Forrest. We got us a house an two cars an ever Saturday he takes us someplace like the beach or out in the country. We go to church on Sunday, an Donald is savin up to send little Forrest to college an all.” “Coud I see him –I mean, jus for a minute or two?” I axed.

“Sure,” Jenny say, an she call the little feller over.

“Forrest,” she says, “I want you to meet another Forrest. He’s a ole friend of mine – an he is who you are named after.”

The little guy come an set down by me an say, “What a funny monkey you got.”

“That is a orangutang,” I say. “His name is Sue.” “How come you call him Sue, if it’s a he? ”

I knowed right then that I didn’t have no idiot for a son. “Your mama say you want to grow up to be a football player, or a astronaut,” I says. “I sure would,” he say. “You know anything about football or astronauts?”

“Yep,” I say, “a little bit, but maybe you ought to axe your daddy bout that. I’m sure he knows a lot more than me.”

Then he give me a hug. It weren’t a big hug, but it was enough. “I want to play with Sue some more,” he say, an jump down from the bench, an ole Sue, he done organized a game where little Forrest could thow a coin into the tin cup an Sue would catch it in the air.

Jenny come over an set nex to me an sighed, an she pat me on the leg. “I can’t believe it sometimes,” she say. “We’ve knowed each other nearly thirty years now ever since first grade.”

The sun is shinin thru the trees, right on Jenny’s face, an they might of been a tear in her eyes, but it never come, an yet they is somethin there, a heartbeat maybe, but I really couldn’t say what it was, even tho I knowed it was there.

“I just can’t believe it, that’s all,” she say, an then she lean over an kiss me on the forehead.

“What’s that?” I axed.

“Idiots,” Jenny says, an her lips is tremblin. “Who ain’t a idiot?” An then she is gone. She got up an fetched little Forrest an took him by the han an they walked on off.

(www. Pdfbooksplanet.org/novels/8535/Forrest Gump-by-Winston- Groom.html.)

16. Tell the biography of Forrest Gump from the third person.

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