專四晨讀美文：Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump
Forrest: Hello! My name's Forrest. Forrest Gump.
Do you want a chocolate?
I could eat about a million and a half of these.
My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're going to get.
Those must be comfortable shoes.
I bet you could walk all day in shoes like that
and not feel a thing. I wish I had shoes like that.
Woman: My feet hurt.
Forrest: Mama always said there's an awful lot
you can tell about a person by their shoes.
Where they're going, 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 were my magic shoes.
Doctor: 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 crocked as a politician.
But we're going to straighten him right up, aren't we, Forrest?
Mamma: 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 Clan.
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.
Mamma: This way. Hold on. Ugh! All right.
What are you 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.
Forrest: Mama always had a way of explaining things
so I could understand them.