Jenny accepted Forrest for who he was and taught him to read, as well as to stand up to bullies. He later said: "I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life." Forrest and Jenny spent much time together, usually near a large tree. On the bus to school, Forrest met Jenny Curran, and was instantly attracted to her. One such guest was a young Elvis Presley, who used Forrest's peculiar dancing style to invent the "hip dancing" moves for the song "Hound Dog." Forrest's mother told him never to let anyone tell him he was different, saying: "Stupid is as stupid does." Because Forrest and his mother lived in a large house, they rented the rooms out to travelers to make money. Forrest's mother made the man reconsider after they slept together. This was to remind Forrest that "sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense."Īs a child, Forrest had strong legs, but a weak spine, which the family doctor claimed was "as crooked as a politician." Because of this, he was forced to wear leg braces which made walking and running difficult, and also discovered he had a sub-standard IQ, which the principal of the local school said excluded him from attending the school.
Because his father was absent during his life, purportedly "on vacation", Forrest was raised by his mother, who named him after Civil War Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was also first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and a supposed ancestor of Gump's. Forrest Gump was born on June 6, 1944, the day of the Normandy landings during World War II.
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