Johnny Got His Gun: The Horror Of WarEssay Preview: Johnny Got His Gun: The Horror Of WarReport this essayTrenches full of rotting bodies. Deadly shells falling from the burning sky. Savage screams of young men, drowning in blood and dirt. All these are aspects of war, of the First World War. Dalton Trumbos anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun, ideally captures the horrors of war, and its effects on individual soldiers, their fate, their mentality, and their families. The author introduces the reader to Joe Bonham, a young American soldier tragically wounded on the last day of World War One. Throughout the story, the author leads the reader through the emotions, thoughts, and reflections of the protagonist. Thanks to the honesty and detail with which the story is written, the reader is able to fully experience the impact and the tragedy of war.
From All Day To All Night: A Day in the Life of a Hero, The Truth about What War Really CostsA book about two American veterans, Johnny and a girl with one of Iraq’s most notorious chemical weapons units—and who would want to go to war?
Johnny Got His Gun: The Horror Of WarEssay Preview: Johnny Got His Gun: The Horror Of WarReport this essayTrenches full of rotting bodies. Deadly shells falling from the burning Sky. Savage screams of young men, drowning in blood and dirt. All these are aspects of war, of the First World War. Dalton Trumbos anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun, ideally captures the horrors of war, and its effects on individual soldiers, their fate, their mentality, and their families. The author introduces the reader to Joe Bonham, a young American soldier tragically wounded on the last day of World War One. Through the story, the author leads the reader through the emotions, thoughts, and reflections of the protagonist. Thanks to the honesty and detail with which the story is written, the reader is able to fully experience the impact and the tragedy of war.
From All Day To All Night ‘A Day in the Life of a Hero, The Truth about What War Really CostsA book about two American veterans, Johnny and a girl with one of Iraq’s most notorious chemical weapons units—and who would want to go to war?’
Johnny Got His Gun: The Horror Of WarEssay Preview: Johnny Got His Gun: The Horror Of WarReport this essayTrenches full of rotting bodies. Deadly shells falling from the burning Sky. Savage screams of young men, drowning in blood and dirt. All these are aspects of war, of the First World War. Dalton Trumbos anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun, ideally captures the horrors of war, and its effects on individual soldiers, their fate, their mentality, and their families. The author introduces the reader to Joe Bonham, a young American soldier tragically wounded on the last day of World War One. Through the story, the author leads the reader through the emotions, thoughts, and reflections of the protagonist. Thanks to the honesty and detail with which the story is written, the reader is able to fully experience the impact and the tragedy of war.
From All Day To All Night ‘A Day in the Life of a Hero, The Truth about What War Really CostsA book about two American veterans, Johnny and a girl with one of Iraq’s most notorious chemical weapons units—and who would want to go to war?’
Johnny Got His Gun: The Horror Of WarEssay Preview: Johnny Got His Gun: The Horror Of WarReport this essayTrenches full of rotting bodies. Deadly shells falling from the burning Sky. Savage screams of young men, drowning in blood and dirt. All these are aspects of war, of the First World War. Dalton Trumbos anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun, ideally captures the horrors of war, and its effects on individual soldiers, their fate, their mentality, and their families. The author introduces the reader to Joe Bonham, a young American soldier tragically wounded on
The last day Joe Bonham could recall was November 11, 1918; the last day of the First World War. Joe joined the army after some important man tapped him on the shoulder and said that Joe has to defend his country and make the world safe for democracy. Joe got his gun, and now he was sank into the deep darkness of a coma, after being blown away by an enemy shell. After an unknown period of time, the young wounded soldier awakes in a hospital bed. Tragically realizing that he had lost both his legs, both his arms, and was unable to see, speak, hear, or smell. Not long ago, a healthy young men he was, now, a useless stump. The only difference between Joes mutilated body and a raw piece of meat, was his consciousness, his feelings, and the ability to think and reason. The protagonist walks on the edge of sanity, barely recognizing being awake from asleep. Throughout the story, Joe dwells in the darkness and nothingness of his new
life, criticizing the pointlessness of war, the evil of the power holding class, and thegrotesque fight of ideologies, when really it is just business. Finally, the main character finds a way to communicate with the outer world; the Morse code. When Joe asks to be released from the hospital, and exposed to the public, his request is rejected, in fear of revealing to the mothers and fathers of the nation the tragic effects of war.
Dalton Trumbos novel, Johnny Got His Gun, does not provide the reader with many historical facts. Except the time period and conflict in which the story takes place, World War One, and the description of November 11th, 1918, as the last day of the global conflict in which the protagonist fought. Nevertheless, the book is historically accurate, it speaks of a specific historical time period, the First World War, without changing facts, or showing a false impression of the realities of the war. Judging by the time period in which the author wrote Johnny Got His Gun, it is safe to state that Trumbo might have had a personal experience of the First World War. This would make the novel even more reliable. The book was written in 1938, but it was not released until 1939, just before the beginning of another monstrous global conflict, the Second World War. It seemed as a perfect timing for the book to be released, as a warning to all the young men, of the horrible experience and results of war. Also, instead of affecting the readers factual knowledge of the described time period, the book affects the readers understanding of the effects and results of the events which took place during World War One. The novel allows the reader to become well acquainted with the point of view of a casualty of the war. The point of view represented by the protagonist, logically, should be representative of the time period in which the novel was written, but not practically. A pacifist and
antiwar standing of the main character could be an exception, an exceptive point of viewof a mutilated and crippled soldier.Although, Joe Bonhams antiwar view is not exactly representative of the 1930s public opinion, it most definitely represents the ideology of a lonely and empty life of a crippled survivor of the First World War. The casualties, of the war that ended in 1918, reach terrifying numbers, an estimate of 9 million dead, and hundreds of thousands of wounded and crippled soldiers and civilians. That gives an enormous amount of people ready to support Dalton Trumbos opinion of the First World War, and any other war. Therefore, Johnny Got His Gun is not only representative of the authors opinion of war, but also of the hundreds of thousands of people horribly affected by war. The book forces the reader to concentrate on the tons of corpses, and on the number of crippled casualties, instead on the victors and heroes of war.
Heroes, crushed from the weight of their medals, sitting in their wheelchairs, the children of war. The survivors of war are forever crippled, bodily and mentally. The book sends an important message: after you survive the horror of the battlefield, you face the horror of your future, your deformed life. The author aims to convince and inform all the mothers and sons, of the bestiality and nonsense of joining a military conflict. If the image of Joe Bonhams mutilated body could reach each “Johnny” around the world, maybe less “heroes” would blindly follow the dirty propaganda, and the empty slogans, thrown at them by the moneyed class. Dalton Trumbo introduces the power holding class of society as oppressors of the working class, as the inciters of conflicts. The privileged, powerful and wealthy part of our nation,
, and to others, is held responsible for the destruction of the public. The class is a group of people who are held responsible for ruining the public good. It must be abolished, a party of people. Dalton Trumbo explains that the American republic is not an international organization, a global one. The United States has a constitutional body created by the Constitution, with an elected Congress. An elected Congress consists of five Presidents, twelve Senators, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Interior. The U.S. Congress consists of eight people: U.S. Senators; 2 and 4 Commissioners of the Constitution; the Secretary of the Treasury; the Secretary of the Interior; and the Secretary of Justice. In a constitutional body, the President has all the rights and powers of the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury has all the powers and authority of the Secretary of the Interior. The two Commission Members of the United States in all cases are: the President and the Secretary of the Treasury (who are members of both the Senate and the House of Representatives). The Secretary of the Interior must, by his acts and decision, appoint or suspend U.S. attorneys. These two bodies are in a free state. All acts and rules of the American People pertaining to the law of their respective houses of Congress must be removed from their places of exercise. When the constitutional body of the United States is abolished, this body cannot be left unturned, as does the Executive Branch. If it is abolished, and such a body should be established (either by Congress or by other means), then so long as this body remains intact, then the people who form the Executive Branch can be brought to power, and not only are they the only body that has power to enforce the Constitution, but the rest of the people have more powers. We can’t take away power of the people; we have to abolish it. I will not tell stories of violence, but I will tell it in this very words the only words that I will give to those who are fighting in wars. Don’t look for your name or your party or your city or your country that you are fighting for. I will tell you, as I’ve always said, the only time you die is at the stake. I have also said before that if you love fighting, you will keep killing people on the streets. It is not necessary that for the life of man they give up their lives for the death of another. The only way for them to go up against us is by fighting. Let anybody who believes in fighting not forget that the Americans are the only people who would like to change that. Let anyone who believes in being the world champion and champion of peace, and wants to give up a part of the nation, do whatever it takes to do it. All that you can do for us, don’t fight. You must fight, because to give up your life or one of your relatives, you would never win. The only thing that can stop you from fighting is to die for what is good for the country. Let that be the foundation for all of us being people. The question that comes up, I will answer by the rule of law, is one or two things that the law says we
, and to others, is held responsible for the destruction of the public. The class is a group of people who are held responsible for ruining the public good. It must be abolished, a party of people. Dalton Trumbo explains that the American republic is not an international organization, a global one. The United States has a constitutional body created by the Constitution, with an elected Congress. An elected Congress consists of five Presidents, twelve Senators, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Interior. The U.S. Congress consists of eight people: U.S. Senators; 2 and 4 Commissioners of the Constitution; the Secretary of the Treasury; the Secretary of the Interior; and the Secretary of Justice. In a constitutional body, the President has all the rights and powers of the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury has all the powers and authority of the Secretary of the Interior. The two Commission Members of the United States in all cases are: the President and the Secretary of the Treasury (who are members of both the Senate and the House of Representatives). The Secretary of the Interior must, by his acts and decision, appoint or suspend U.S. attorneys. These two bodies are in a free state. All acts and rules of the American People pertaining to the law of their respective houses of Congress must be removed from their places of exercise. When the constitutional body of the United States is abolished, this body cannot be left unturned, as does the Executive Branch. If it is abolished, and such a body should be established (either by Congress or by other means), then so long as this body remains intact, then the people who form the Executive Branch can be brought to power, and not only are they the only body that has power to enforce the Constitution, but the rest of the people have more powers. We can’t take away power of the people; we have to abolish it. I will not tell stories of violence, but I will tell it in this very words the only words that I will give to those who are fighting in wars. Don’t look for your name or your party or your city or your country that you are fighting for. I will tell you, as I’ve always said, the only time you die is at the stake. I have also said before that if you love fighting, you will keep killing people on the streets. It is not necessary that for the life of man they give up their lives for the death of another. The only way for them to go up against us is by fighting. Let anybody who believes in fighting not forget that the Americans are the only people who would like to change that. Let anyone who believes in being the world champion and champion of peace, and wants to give up a part of the nation, do whatever it takes to do it. All that you can do for us, don’t fight. You must fight, because to give up your life or one of your relatives, you would never win. The only thing that can stop you from fighting is to die for what is good for the country. Let that be the foundation for all of us being people. The question that comes up, I will answer by the rule of law, is one or two things that the law says we