Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo :: essays papers

Johnny Got His GunWar in its self is a tragedy. Experiencing the tragedies of fight has a life long impact on ones life. In the brisk Johnny got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, Joe Bonham is a victim of contend and he is forever changed physicaly, affablely and spiritualy. Through Joe it is evident that the price we pay for war is much to high.All people in life have some(a) sieve of basic function. Weather it be a parapaliegic who lives alone, goes to work, has some sort of social life, and is a member of a wheelchair basket ball team or a quadrapaliegic who is incapable of doing much but still give with friends and family members. Joe is in a terribly worse situation then both of them. Joe spends his days in a hospital bed. He is incapable of whatever sort of fuction other than moving his head up and down. He thunder mug non speak nor poop he eat for he has no m outh nor a face. He must be assisted for things that a 3 year old child could probably do on their own like changi ng close or going to the washroom. This predicament, which Joe finds himself in, causes Joe fantastic mental anguish. Please I cant. Please no. Somebody come. do me. I cant lie here forever like this until maybe years from now I die. 1 cant. Nobody can. It isnt possible. (Trumbo 3.64)To try to imagine the mental stress which Joe suffers from is unconceivable to any human being. Joe can not distinguish his memories from his consciencnouss nor can he judge if he is awake or asleep. Joe can not communicate with his keepers which is the worst of all his folies He unplowed tapping. He kept on now for another reason aside from the simple longing to speak which had started him out. He kept on tapping because he didnt dare split he didnt dare think. He didnt have the courage to ask himself so simple a question as how long will it be before the nurse understands what Im doing.(Trumbo 15.180) this causes Joe the most anguish because all he wants now, in his condition, is to go into the w orld and show everyone the horrors of war. Joe imagines himself in a schoolhouse recitng this greenhouse rhyme Hickory *censored*ory dock my daddy nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty public opinion he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes.