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My momma always said, "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
He is a kind-hearted man with an intellectual disability whose momentous life includes saving his fellow soldiers during the Vietnam War, launching a successful shrimp company, and running across the country. He is the widowed husband of Jenny Curran and the father of Forrest Gump Jr.
He's frequently friendly towards the people he encounters at the bus stop, while recounting his highlights.
He, thinking he is hurting her, tries to protect Jenny from Billy, which is later revealed that she is making out with her boyfriend.
When he sees Jenny's breasts in her attempt of having brief sexual encounter with him, he apologizes to her, thinking he made a wrong decision.
Begins to serve in army during Vietnam War, being a loyal and capable private soldier.
Beats up some patrons who were harassing Jenny at a strip club in Memphis, Tennessee.
During the shootout in Vietnam, he rescues his fellow wounded soldiers, Tex and two others, by carrying them out of jungle one by one.
Despite Lieutenant Dan's constant orders for Forrest leaving him, he rescues the Lieutenant from the shootout also, which resulted in Forrest getting shot on his buttocks.
Beats Wesley up when he smacks Jenny and says he would not hurt her.
Fulfills his promise to Bubba by buying a boat and starting his own shrimping business, selling his tennis paddles for it, which costs $25,000.
When Forrest attains a large amount of money from his shrimping business, he donates a large portion of it to the Foursquare Gospel Church, enabling the church to undergo renovations, and Bayou La Batre Fishing Hospital. He also gives to Bubba's family, getting them out of poverty.
When he was in hotel, he saw strange lights from the windows of near hotel and asked it's guard to check it. It caused Watergate Scandal, that revealed corruption of Richard Nixon's administration and made him leave the presidency.
Despite the Lieutenant's rude and ungrateful behavior towards him for being saved when he did not want, Forrest always supports him, accepting him into his shrimping business and making him face his demons during the storm, which eventually resulted with him thanking Forrest for saving his life.
He quickly jumps out of his ship and begins to swim when he finds out his mother is sick, going to her home. He stays with her during her last times before her death, comforting her.
While he does it "for no particular reason", his three-year running activity makes people around the United States inspire from him, thus making him an inspirational person.
When Jenny told him that the son of her is also of his, Forrest quickly admits it and becomes a good father to his son, Forrest.
Since his childhood and during his whole lifetime, he always loved Jenny, wanting to marry her and proposing her, only succeeding during their recent reunion. He is devastated when Jenny passed away, and honors her memory with constantly visiting her cemetery, delivering her son's letters next to her grave even without reading it.
While he does have some moments where he acts violent, these are for protecting Jenny, and do not carry any wrathful or lethal delight, so they are righteous and justified, with it all just being heating up moments.
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