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Summary: glens review
Review: Johny got his gun was a very interesting and pervocative book. thwe main charactor Joe was hit by a shell in wwI. he is left severly handicaped from the blast. The book was basically all in the words of Joe. It is what he is thinking while he is in the hospital. It is disturbing that he can barley tell when he is awake and when he is sleeping. the only way yhat he can tell is from the heat of the sun and the daily visits from the nurse. THis book was good because it helped me cope with my own handicap. It made me relize that someone always has it worse and that life is a fragile thing. I strongly recomend this book.
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Summary: Johhny Got his Gun or Did He?
Review: War is no man,s victory. Our country is only open to the victory, glory, and power that war brings. War brings more sorrows than glories. Johnny Got His Gun brings you the circumstances of a man who doesn't make it back to our home soil. This man amung many others never made it back, Joe lived out his life in a hospitol bed never returning to the U.S. and home.Joe the main character was directly hit by a shell, during WWI. Joe barely survived the bombing,laeving him unable to communicate to the outside world. Joe's hardship and inablities to do anything allowed him to live his life through his mind, made me realize the reality of war's reprocussions. After reading this book I really feel for any man who has been through a war. Johhny Got His Gun will hopefully have the same inpact on you. I recommend Johnny Got His Gun to any interested reader.
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Summary: Agitprop
Review: Brilliant but primitive agitprop, designed to scare the slack-jawed set. Literary value leaves much to be desired - the book is brutish and straightforward, no trace of irony or any ambivalence whatsoever.
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Summary: Raises the Deepest Philosophical Questions; a Masterpiece
Review: Johnny Got his Gun is a unique terrifying masterpiece. It's usually heralded as an antiwar novel which it is, but not in the usually sense. A man in WWI is blown to bits by a bomb but by "luck" survives, his mind intact. Dalton Trumbo was a communist and opposed WWI, but believed in fighting WWII when the book came out, so therefore recommended the suppression of his own book for the sake of the war effort. What's usually overlooked about this book is the philosophical questions this predicament raises about human existence in general. In the great film version Donald Sutherland plays Christ who says he himself can't help Joe. Joe is helpless in the ultimate horror of existence. Also overlooked is the antimedical establishment message, which keeps Joe alive against his will (Where's Dr. Kevorkian when you need him?) Finally the antiwar message is blatant and the strongest argument against war in all of history. At the end Trumbo makes the point that millions of men are mamed in similar ways in war. And the film came out during Vietnam when many guys were coming to their senses and draft-dodging. There should never again be a draft in this or any country.
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Summary: An interesting bit of Anti-war propaganda
Review: Mr. Dalton Trumbo takes (at the time) typical anti-war view and expresses it in his book here. Basic plot is of a severly injured man that proceeds to remember the various points of his life and how he arrived at his current situtation. It later transgress into how this same man tried to communcatie with the world around him even though he can't write, speak, or even blink his eyes. In the later half of the book he also attacks the sense of duty and courage that all young men feel when they hear the call to arms. Mr. Dalton Trumbo's words draw vivid pictures in your mind, however the arrangement of this book is very sloppy in my opinion it jumps around too much. Could of done better by sticking to a timeline of some sort to achieve the same affect. To understand this book you need to view it in the time frame that is was written. The previous war (WW1) was still fresh in many peoples minds and with the rise spector of another war in Europe all sorts of people were trying to prevent that spark that would ignite it. They really didn't succed all that well. Overall it only rates 2 star and if you really want to read some better Anti-war books read the "Red Badge of Courage" or " All quiet on the Western Front" or even "For Whom the Bell Tolls" they have a better grasp on why old men make young men go to war over idoitic things and address the sense of duty.
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Summary: War In None Of Its Glory
Review: World War II army General, George C. Marshall once said, "On the battlefield, a soldier must not be human." Marshall meant that a soldier must leave the only world he knows, that of human feelings and understanding, to do his job. In Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo, brings the story of a quadruple amputated, blind and deaf, stump named Joe who did his job, and has left the only world he knows, permanently. Throughout Johnny Got His Gun, Trumbo emphasizes the evils of war and their devastating effect on Joe. Using flashbacks, strong diction, and visual imagery, Trumbo lists the immoralities of war, as seen by Joe.
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Summary: Trumbo's hometown
Review: This book resonated with me because first of all part of it was set in Grand Junction where I've lived most of my life and many of the background themes are familiar. It tells the truth about war and does question blind patriotism, nothing wrong with that. This man Trumbo was ahead of his time in alot of ways.
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Summary: An Exquisite Horror Story
Review: Had I read this book when I was sixteen--I don't think combat-veteran would now be on my resumé. Although I read this book many years after the fact, it immediately reunited me with the insanity and horror of war. Trumbo marches you double-time directly into madness...rarely giving you a moment to catch your breath. Only an evil or deranged mind would wage war after such a read. It is that compelling a book.
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Summary: Relentless
Review: This anti-war nightmare left me chilled. Narrator Joe Bonham is a W.W.I. draftee who's wounds leave him blind, deaf, mute, and limb-less. He keeps sane by improving his sense of feel, and by recalling his pre-war days. Imagine trying to communicate by tapping your head. Dalton Trumbo (who was later blacklisted) wrote this novel in 1939, then accepted its suppression during World War II. Trumbo didn't quite match "All Quiet on the Western Front," but he makes a powerful statement. This book is definitely not for the squeamish.
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Summary: Johnny Got His Gun: A Teenager's Review
Review: Before I read Johnny Got His Gun I feel that I really took life for granted. All the little things about life suddenly seemed immensley important. Reading about a man with no physical abilites made me thankful for things I had believed to once hate, such as running the mile in gym or being forced to eat my vegetables at dinner. Occasionally Johnny Got His Gun would become very repeticious. A small noncomplex idea would take the author a entire chapter to describe. However, overall I enjoyed this book very much. Not only did it make me value life but also taught me about the dangers and consequences of war.
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