Shrimping like Bubba with Lt. Dan

In reading the movies we have recently watched Forest Gump. It is very true that a lot of us kids have seen the movie but we never thought about certain things and what they meant. Like for instance the two other main characters Jenny and Lt. Dan. Both of these characters had an effect on Forest but also Forest had an effect on them. When Forest was growing up Jenny was his best friend and Forest would do anything to protect her and that he did. Meanwhile when he was so good to her, she always pushed him away and drug herself into a hole with the drug use and the people she was around. Forest was always having to help her, he would be the "big man" when someone was hurting Jenny. The worst thing Jenny could have done would have to be when she came back and slept with him and she conceived a baby and never told him, until years later.     Lt. Dan of course had taught him the certain needs of survival in the war. Now Lt. Dan was a good person to Forest until Forest saved his life and got him out of the battle field. Since Lt. Dan was blown up at the legs he became calf-less but still had thighs and probably half a knee. His destiny was to die in the field and Forest took that from him and he turned into a drunk and finds Forest and they become friends again. After a bit they become shrimpin fools. In return of Forest taking his destiny, Forest returned the favor and made Lt. Dan a millionaire. Both of these characters do something to Forest that is a mean thing of course but Forest doesn't care and he stills helps his friends. I think the theme of this movie is that “don’t look back at the past keep moving forward." I think this because that exactly what Forest did. When jenny left for the first time he didn’t get all depressed, he didn’t cry in sorrow. He put his best foot forward and still had a great life. Some more examples of this would be when she leaves again after he helped her at the stage, that time he was sad but he still pushed forward. When Jenny left on the hippie bus after Forest punched that guy in the face because he slapped her, he didn’t get mad or sad or anything, he just says "you’re my girl" and I will write you. Forest plays the good guy and that’s what we need more of in America. People like Forest but with a little higher IQ. The world would be a better place.