![]() ![]() Forrest is unsure of playing in the NFL, citing how the players are much bigger than in college and how "with all that gear, you look like a man from Mars or something". ![]() Snake fears for his career as the Saints are having a horrible season, and recruits Forrest for the Saints. By chance one of the club's best customers is a rough football player for the New Orleans Saints known as "Snake", who used to play football for the University of Alabama alongside Forrest. To make ends meet, Forrest takes a job as a janitor in a strip club in New Orleans. Forrest comes to the docks one morning to find unoccupied trawlers and is met by no one save for Bubba's father, who sadly reports to Forrest that "I am afraid to say you have been ruined". Dan sells off his share of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company in order to fund a swanky retirement, and the company endures labor disagreements. ![]() In 1980, the shrimp market has exploded, and Forrest cannot keep up with the demand. The story suggests that the real-life events surrounding the film have affected Forrest's life. However, the character is not an idiot savant, as in the first book, but more similar to Tom Hanks' "warmhearted dope." The text purposely contains frequent grammar and spelling mistakes in order to indicate the character's deficient education and cognitive difficulties. On the first page, Forrest Gump tells readers "Don't never let nobody make a movie of your life's story," though "Whether they get it right or wrong, it don't matter." ![]()
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