Forrest Gump: Protest Against The Vietnam War

World War II is a real world event that everyone knows about. Many authors have written books about WWII, except that writing about that war word though word is pretty difficult and not pleasant to read about for the audience. So authors will bend the historic events to make them more pleasant to read. This make books or novels fictional. They are then classified as historical fiction because the book or novel is based on history but some of it was changed. In the novel, Forrest Gump the author, Winston Groom accurately portrays the historical events the novel for the Vietnam War and effects from it.

The author, Winston Groom was accurate with the reactions of the United States soldiers wanting to go into the Vietnam War. The American Soldiers

There was a protest that happened at the Lincoln Memorial against the Vietnam War. Forrest Gump gave a speech about the Vietnam War during the protest at the Lincoln Memorial: “They put me up on a stage an said to talk bout the war” (Winston Groom, 1986). On October 20, 1967, at the Lincoln Memorial one hundred thousand people gathered: “to begin the largest anti-war demonstration held up to that point at the capital” (Greenhaven Press, 1993, p. 145). There were many protests against the Vietnam War and at the Lincoln Memorial was just one of the many. In the book Forrest Gump, Forrest was at the largest strike and was tricked to give a speech to the protesters about the Vietnam War. This evidence is important because there were protests happening as stated in the book. The protesters would welcome the Vietnam Veterans with hate instead of love. When Forrest Gump returned to America after the Vietnam War he was meet with hate: “the crowd busted thru an come runnin towards us shoutin an hollerin all kinds of nasty things” (Winston Groom, 1986). When Veterans returned home from the War they were meet with hate: “Instead of finding love, we were bombarded with hate! People stood on the side of the road holding signs condemning the war and us returning veterans” (pdoggbiker, 2013). The American Veterans were not welcomed back after fighting in the war. In the book, Forrest was not treated with kindness either when he returned back after the war. This evidence is important because the veterans were not treated kindly when they returned home after the war, as stated in the