Hello, my name's Forrest, Forrest Gump. Do you want a chocolate? I could eat about a million and a
half these. My mum always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going
to get. Those must be comfortable shoes. I'll bet you could walk all day in those shoes like that
and not feel a thing. I wish I had shoes like that. My feet hurt. Mama always said there's an awful
lot you can tell about a person by their shoes. Where they'll go, where they've been. I've worn
lots of shoes. I bet if I think about it real hard I could remember my first pair of shoes. Mama
said they'd take me anywhere. She said they was my magic shoes.
All right, Forrest, open your eyes now. Let;s take a little walk around. How do those feel?
His legs are strong, Mrs.Gump, as strong as I've ever seen. But his back's as crooked as a
politician.
But we're going to straighten him right up, aren't we, Forrest? Forrest!
Now, when I was a baby, mama named me after the great Civil War hero General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
She said we were related to him in some way. What he did was, he started up this club called the Ku
Klux Klan. They'd all dress up in their robes and their bed sheets and act like a bunch of ghosts
or spooks or something. They'd even put bed sheets on their horses and ride around. And, anyway,
that's how I got my name...Forrest Gump. Mama said the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes
we all do things that, well, that just don't make no sense.
This way. Hold on. Ugh! All right. What are y'all staring at? Haven't you ever seen a little boy
with braces on his legs before? Don't ever let anybody tell you they're better than you, Forrest.
If God intended everybody to be the same, he'd have given us all braces on our legs.
Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.