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The symbols in "Forrest Gump".

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Janis Lasmanis 11.sb

The symbols in "Forrest Gump".

"Forrest Gump is one of the most amazing movies ever seen. After watching it one can come to realize several cognitions because the picture is saturated with many symbols. It seems that the movie all together is a bunch of symbols. First of all the main character is a symbol of naturalism and innocence. Also other characters have many symbolic meanings, and of course one can recognize several symbols in the cognitions characters have made.

Forrest Gump is the symbol of innocence and naturalism. Others regarded Gump as stupid jus because he was so right - all the good characteristics were gathered in him. Forest was as innocent as child, he had no selfishness in him and every decision Forrest made came straight from his heart. He did no calculations at all what his action will cause in future. If Forrest decided to run - he ran; if he decided to go to army - he did. He did it for no particular reason - he just felt like. In the dictionary the only word that was similar to Forrest's surname was gumption, which is explained as

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