I was bornverb.承担 an idiotnoun.白痴, but I'm cleverer than people think. I can think things okay, but when I have to say them or write them down, sometimesadv.有时 they come out all wrong. When I was bornverb.承担, my mom namedverb.说出 me Forrest. My daddy died just after I was bornverb.承担. He worked on the ships. One day, a big box of bananas fell down on my daddy and killedverb.杀死 him. I don't like bananas much. Only banana cake. I like that all right.
At first, when I was growing up, I played with everybody. But then some boys hitverb.打 me and my mom didn't want me to play with them again. I triedverb.尝试 to play with girls, but they all ran away from me. I went to an ordinaryadj.平常的 school for a year. Then the children started laughing and running away from me. But one girl, Jenny Curran, didn't run away, and sometimesadv.有时 she walked home with me. She was nice. Then they put me into another kind of school, and there were some strangeadj.陌生的 boys there.
Some couldn't eat or go to the toilet without helpnoun.帮手. I stayed in that school for five or six years, but when I was 13, I grew six inchesnoun.英寸 in six months. And by the time I was 16, I was bigger and heavier than all the other boys in the school. One day I was walking home, and a car stopped next to me. The driver asked me my name, and I told him. "What school do you go to?" he asked.
I told him about the idiotnoun.白痴 school. "Do you everadv.在任何时候 play football?" he asked. "No," I told him. "I see other people playing, but I don't play, and they never asked me to play with them." "Okay," the man said. Three days later, the man in the car came and got me out of school. Mom was there, and they got all the things out of my desk and put them in a brown paper bag. Then they told me to say goodbye to the teacher.
The man in the car took me and Mom to the new high school. There, an old man with gray hair asked me lotsnoun.许多 of questions, but I knew that they reallyadv.真正地 wanted me to play football. The man in the car was a football coachnoun.长途公共汽车 calledverb.把…叫做 Fellers. Coach Fellers asked me to put on a football suitnoun.起拆, then asked me to undress and dress again, twenty times, until I could do it easilyadv.容易地. I began to play football with the high school team, and Coach Fellers helped me, and I went to lessons in the school.
One teacher, Miss Henderson, was reallyadv.真正地 nice. She taught me to read. And who do you think I saw in the school cafe? Jenny Curran. She was all grown up now, with pretty black hair, long legs, and a beautiful face. I went and sat with her, and she remembered me. But there was a boy in the cafe who started callingverb.把…叫做 me names and saying things like, "How stupidadj.愚蠢的!" Then he threw some milk at me, and I jumped out of my chair and ran away.
A day or two later, after school in the afternoon, he and his friends came up to me and started pushing and hittingverb.打 me. Then they ran after me across the football fieldnoun.领域. I ran away fast. I saw that Coach Fellers was watching me. He had a strangeadj.陌生的 look on his face, and he came and told me to put on my football suitnoun.起拆. That afternoon, he gave me the ball to run with. The others started running after me, and I ran as fast as I could.
When they caught me, it needed eight of them to pull me down. Coach Fellers was reallyadv.真正地 happy. He started jumping up and down and laughing. And after that, everybody liked me. We had our first game, and I was frightenedadj.害怕的. But they gave me the ball, and I ran over the goalnoun.球门 line two or three times. People were reallyadv.真正地 kindadj.善良的 to me after that. Then something happened which was not so good. "I want to take Jenny Curran to the cinema," I told Mom one day.
So she phoned Jenny's Mom and explainedverb.解释. Next evening, Jenny arrived at our house, wearingverb.磨损 a white dress and with a pink flower in her hair. She was the prettiest thing that I everadv.在任何时候 saw. The cinema was not far from our house. Jenny got the tickets, and we went inside. The film was about a man and a woman, Bonnie and Clyde, and there was a lotnoun.许多 of shootingnoun.射击 and killingnoun.. Well, I laughed a lotnoun.许多. But when I did this, people looked at me, and Jenny got down loweradj.低的 and loweradj.低的 in her place.
Once I thought she was on the floor, and I put my hand on her shoulder to pull her up. But I pulled her dress, and it came open, and she screamedverb.尖叫. I triedverb.尝试 to put my hands in frontnoun.前部 of her, because there were people looking at us. Then two men came and took me to an office. A few minutes later, four policemen arrived and took me to the police station. Mom came to the police station. She was crying, and I knew that I was in troublenoun.问题 again.
And I was in troublenoun.问题. But I was lucky. Next day, a letter arrived from a universitynoun.大学. It was good news. If I played in their football team, there was a place for me in school there. And the police said, "That's okay with us. Just get out of town." So the next morning, Mom put some things into a suitcasenoun.手提箱 for me, and put me on a bus. She was crying again. But they started the bus, and away I went.