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 * In my book Johnny Got His Gun by, Dalton Trumbo, it is a story about a young man named Joe Bonham who is in his early years who is devastated and practically dead after he went to war. Before all of his war experiences though, he was a regular boy living in a rural area in a medium-sized town. Once he went to war, his whole life changed. Joe and his best friend, Bill Harper was in a fox hole when artillery from the Germans started to rain down on them. Joe and Bill hunkered down in their hole when one of the shells hit practically in their hole. Bill died instantly but his body somewhat covered Joes body and left Joe barely alive. When some medics came by a little while later, they thought that he was dead, but when they picked him up and moved him he started to groan and they found that he was alive. They were in shock to see that a man in that condition could even be alive. **


 * Joe partially woke up and found that his arms were gone after he was removed from the battlefield. He started to hallucinate about himself trying live a life with no arms and he ended up giving himself nightmares just of the thought of it. As time went on i the hospital, he spent most of his t time just thinking and remembering the past that was once a great life ahead of him. He remembered Karen, his girlfriend, and his best friend Bill. He also remembered his last thanksgiving with his family and remembered the smells and sounds of thanksgiving. But then at that time he realized that he couldn’t talk, hear, or talk. He started to move around like crazy and tried to stand up and run. But just as he thought it couldn’t get worse, he lost both of his legs. At this point, Joe was crying and he knew that his life wouldn’t be anything now. He then started to say that he was just a pile of meat, worthless meat that had no purpose in life anymore. **


 * The nurse’s tried to cheer Joe up by doing different things to him, but none of them worked. All Joe wanted to do was to have a conversation with someone. At this point Joe didn't have a conversation with anyone for almost a year now. The only way that he found though that could make someone have a conversation with another person, was to use Morse code. he would start to tap day after day. Just as he thought that it would never work though, the hospital finally noticed his tapping. Joe became very excited and the hospital brought in a Morse code decoder and tapped on Joes stomach," What do you want?" it might not have been much but it was enough for him. He asked the man if he could show everyone the horrors of war and try to tell people to stop wars. But they said no because young men seeing the condition he was in would never want to make them join the army. They wouldn’t even let him out because he needed constant care. He then asked if he could be put to rest but they said no and he lived the rest of his life going from hospital to hospital. **