Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo - Book Report/Review Example

Download file to see previous pages He wonders what happened to him and why the doctors decided to save him while in such bad conditions.
Joe grew up in the City of Shale where he had his entire childhood friend. However, his parent would relocate to Los Angeles where he lived until he joined the army. Joe remembers his days as a young man and the food he used to enjoy. He remembers the time the airplane landed in Shale City and the time he had with his girlfriend Diana (Trumbo 10). Nevertheless, he would later lose her one night to Bill Harper, who was one of his best friends (Trumbo 26). His account then shifts from the past to the present as he regrets joining the war. He says that the war was not his interest, and he would have done other better things in his life.
After a while, in bed rest, Joe realizes that he has been badly injured and treated. He realizes that he has been amputated. Furthermore, comes to term with reality after he finds out he cannot smell, hear, see and speak as his face has been damaged and replaced by musk. He wonders what motivated the doctors to spare his life. His only life is in his memory and the only activities that he has been remembering of his life and moment of nightmares. He does not know whether he is awake or when he is asleep.
He remembers of his father and how he tendered his children and yet he had hardly had enough money. Moreover, his father tendered a beautiful garden in the city lot, but he did not get income out of it. Joe bitterly thinks he was foolish when he decided to fight and the consequences he is undergoing through in a hospital bed. He resents the use of deceitfulness words such as liberty, freedom, democracy, and decency.
As he spent his days in the hospital bed, he decides to use the skin, the only organ that he is left with to feel of the outside world. His body is covered with a blanket only but the neck.  ...Download file to see next pagesRead More