《阿甘正传》中的美国梦

• One day, Jenny returns to visit Gump and he proposes marriage to her. She declines, though feels obliged to prove her love to him by having sex with him. She leaves early the next morning. On a whim, Gump elects to go for a run. Seemingly capriciously, he decides to keep running across the country several times, over three and a half years, becoming famous in the process. • In present-day, Gump reveals that he is waiting at the bus stop because he received a letter from Jenny who, having seen him run on television, asks him to visit her. Once he is reunited with Jenny, she introduces him to his son, also named Forrest. Jenny tells Gump she is suffering from an unknown virus (possibly HIV, though this is never specified). Together the three move back to Greenbow, Alabama. Jenny and Forrest finally marry but she dies soon afterward. • Father and son are waiting for the school bus on little Forrest's first day of school. Opening the book his son is taking to school, the white feather from the beginning of the film is caught on a breeze and drifts skyward.
Forrest Gump’s life can be roughly divided into nine periods: 1.Early years 2.College 3.In the army 4.Washington D. C. 5.Ping Pong 6.Shrimping boat capitain 7.Home in Alabama 8.Runnning 9.Back to the present
• While Gump is in recovery for a shot to his buttocks, he discovers his uncanny ability for ping-pong, eventually gaining popularity and rising to celebrity status, later playing ping-pong competitively against Chinese teams in ping-pong diplomacy. At an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C., Gump reunites with Jenny, who has been living a counterculture lifestyle. • Returning home, Gump endorses a company that makes ping-pong paddles, earning himself US$25,000, which he uses to buy a shrimping boat, fulfilling his promise to Bubba. Lieutenant Dan joins Gump, and although they initially have little success, after finding their boat the only surviving one in the area after Hurricane Carmen, they begin to pull in huge amounts of shrimp. They use their income to buy an entire fleet of shrimp boats. Lieutenant Dan invests the money in Apple and Gump is financially secure for the rest of his life. He returns home to see his mother's last days.
The background of Forrest Gump:
Forrest Gump depicts the latter half of the 20th century in the United States; more specifically, the period between Forrest's birth in 1944 and 1982, the post-war decades of American history have become a personal growth diary of Forrest Gump. From a mentally retarded person’s perspective, through a normal life fortune to insinuate tortuous ups and downs of American history and culture, the film describes every aspect of American life during this period:
Film Appreciation and Comments: Forrest Gump American Dream
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Contentbackground of Forrest Gump 3.Different characters’ American dream 4.Classic lines that recur the procedures to achieve the American Dream标题宜简洁明了。 标题中实词要大写，下同，请一一更正。
American Dream:
A national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals (Democracy, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, and Equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers. In the definition of the American Dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931, "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth. The American Dream is rooted in the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims that "all men are created equal" with the right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” 思路：首先介绍这个词的起源 、定义（内涵和外延）即在不 同历史时期这个词含义的变化。
• In 1981, Forrest Gump watches a feather fall from the sky at a bus stop in Savannah, Georgia. He recounts his life story to strangers who sit next to him on the bench, recounting his childhood in the town of Greenbow, Alabama. • On his first day of school, Forrest meets a girl named Jenny Curran, whose life is followed in parallel to Gump's at times. Despite his below average intelligence quotient, his ability to run at lightning speed (despite being a victim of polio as a young child) gets him into college on a football scholarship. After his college graduation, he enlists in the army, where he makes friends with fellow recruit Bubba, who convinces Gump to go into the shrimping business with him when the war is over. Despite his low intelligence, Gump manages to excel at drill exercises. They are sent to Vietnam, and during an ambush, Bubba is killed in action. Gump ends up saving much of his platoon, including his Lieutenant, Dan Taylor, who loses both his legs as a result of injuries. Gump is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism.