Watch the movie clip and answer the question in 8.2.1.

Script:

Forrest:            Where’s Momma?

Black woman: She’s upstairs.

Mrs Gump:      Hah, Forrest!

Doctor:            I’ll see you tomorrow.

Mrs Gump:      Fine.

Doctor:            Sure got you straightened out, didn’t we boy?

Forrest:          What’s the matter, Momma?

Mrs. Gump:   I’m dyin’, Forrest. Come on in, sit down over here.

Forrest:          Why are you dyin’, Momma?

Mrs. Gump:   It’s my time. It’s just my time. Oh, now, don’t you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life. It’s something we’re all destined to do. I didn’t know it, but I was destined to be your momma. I did the best I could.

Forrest:          You did good, Momma.

Mrs. Gump:   Well, I happened to believe you make your own destiny. You have to do the best with what God gave you.

Forrest:          What’s my destiny, Momma?

Mrs. Gump:   You’re gonna have to figure that out foryourself. Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you’re gonnaget.

Forrest (V.O.):Momma always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.

Mrs. Gump:   I will miss you, Forrest.

Forrest (V.O.):She had got the cancer and died on a Tuesday. I bought her a new hat with little flowers on it.

(EXT.BUS STOP – PRESENT The elderly woman and Forrest sit. The woman is crying and wipes her eyes with a hankie.)

Forrest:          And that’s all I have to say about that. Didn’t you say you were waiting for the number 7 bus?

Elderly woman:There’ll be another one along shortly.

Forrest:            Now, because I had been a football star and war hero and national celebrity and a shrimping ...