Character

=//**__﻿Main Characters__**//=


 * Joe Bonham - Joe Bonham was a young man in his twenties who was a normal rural city boy. Joe was Just out of high school when he went to boot camp to get ready for war. It was no easy task and when he was in war, he became seriously injured. Injured enough where his whole life would never be the same. He ended up losing his arms and legs and became deaf and mute all at the same time. This made him almost a whole new person. He looked at life in a whole new way that he never knew or saw before he was the way he was after the incident. At first he wanted to just die and get put out of his misury. But then he started to look at his condition in a differnent way. He then wanted to live and show poeple the horrors of war and why poeple should never even fight in the first place and waste young men and womens lives. He did this but at the same time he spent the rest of his days going from one hospital to another.**


 * Bill Harper- Bill Harper was joes best freind. He was always with Joe and they did practicly everything together. They would go on vactions and even family event s with each other even though they were not related in anyway. When they went to war they were still next to each other. Joe always stayed with Bill and Bill always stayed with Joe but he died when the morter shell hit there foxhole and he died leaving Joe practicly dead to. Joe felt like a part was missing from inside of him and he would fell that way for the rest of the book.**

=**//__Minor Characters__//**=
 * Regular Day Nurse - The regular day nurse was Joe's main nurse throughout the story when he was in the hospital. She cared for him and got all of his needs like giving him food and going to the bathroom and cleaning him. Since Joe couldnt do anything for himself, she did it for him. At fist when Joe came in, she didnt really care about him. But he grew on her and she tended to him like no other patient there.**


 * Joe's Father - Joes father was always close to his son. He was one of those dads though that let there kids do most of there things by themselves. Joe didnt really like it but it did make him a better and stronger person. Joes dad was a big influence in th beginning of the story but lost importance even halfway in the book.**


 * Kareen - Kareen was Joes girl friend in the beginning of the book. he would always help Joe in what ever he was doing and they liked each other a lot. But Once Joe left to go to war she almost forgot about him after a month or so and left him. Once Joe figured out that she left him high and dry, he was hit by the morter shell. Kareen basiclly made herself seem like a careless person for anyone at the end of the story.**