34 Jenny makes Gump really sad and felt if his self is really idiot. Jenny showed his
disloyalty in relation with Gump, she gone and got married with another man whereas she knew Gump really love her.
Disloyalty is bad behavior which can make another people got suffer and sad. When people ever decide for one commitment, they have to loyal with that
commitment. The commitment that ever made, people have to keep it even there are many situation or reason that make us to be disloyalty.
4.4 Despair
Despair is ethically regarded as the voluntary and complete abandonment of all hope of saving one’s soul and of having means required for that end. Despair is
not good conduct, which makes everyone lost hope and spirit of life. People who despair think that what they have done is nothing and life as no hope again. Despair
has relation with religion, the relation between human and their God. In despair, human thought that God never heard them and had left them alone.
In this novel the conduct of despair described in character of Dan. At the first, Dan is a history teacher and then he graphed him in to the Army. But because
he was smart, they sent him to officer school and made him a lieutenant. His life is good enough as the lieutenant and has good body until in war of Vietnam which
mades Dan had to lose his feet, he felt his life is not useful again. “He took to drinkin an lost his job an jus didnt do nothin for a wile.
Thieves robbed his house of everthin he had an the artificial legs they had give him at the VA hospital were the wrong size. After a few
years, he said, he jus give up, an took to livin like a bum. Theres a little money ever month from his disability pension, but most of the
time he jus give it away to the other bums. I dunno, Forrest, he say, I guess Im jus waitin to die or somethin. Winston Groom: 72
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didnot concern his life again. He drunk and give up in his life. All the badness comes to his life, he lost his feet, after that the thieves robbed his house. He felt all of his is
gone, and he said just wait the time of died. This condition made him feel so despair, he cannot believe this condition will be happen in his life.
But what about the natural laws thats in charge of everthin? I axe him. What about the scheme of things that we has all got to fit
ourself into? Fuck all that, he say. It was just a bunch of philosophic bullshit. But ever since you tole it to me, thats what I
been goin by. I been lettin the tide carry me an tryin to do my best. Do the right thing. Well, maybe it works for you, Forrest. I thought
it was working for me too— but look at me. Just look at me, he say. What good am I? Im a goddamn legless freak. A bum. A drunkard.
A thirty-five-year-old vagrant. It could be worse, I says. Winston Groom: 73
Gump tried to give support to him with remind him about his philosophy words that he ever said to Gump. The words are about the spirit to face the life. Dan
showed his anger in this sentence ‘Fuck all that, he say. It was just a bunch of philosophic bullshit., He cannot remember that he ever said some philosophy to
Gump but when the badness comes to him, he cannot face it and despair. Dan said the words are not work in me, everything is trash. He despair with cruise himself as
the drunker, trash, and a man who has not job. Despair is bad conduct, in morality is also bad. Despair just see the negative
side from everything or event that have done. Despair brings pain for everyone because people who has despair conduct is always blame themselves and hard to see
the positive side from that.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
