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Summary: Shows what it takes to survive in a world of your own making
Review: This book shows the tragic side of war. The things that we the people don't get to see. We only see the proud soldiers coming home or dying for the stars and stripes. We never see anything like Joe. He went to war to fight and be brave. Yea, he was brave, but what did he get for it. He ended up being a torso with a mind to think with. All he had were his memories and a life to live made of his own creation. All he did was contimplate life's wonders and theries, analyzing them and picking them apart. He had no one to talk to except the people in his head. Joe was an example for all of us. Not only showing us what war is really like and the consequences of it, but also what it takes to go through life and live life in the form of something that many would consider to be not human.Yes, Joe was bitter about his situation, but who wouldn't be? The worst thing about this book though was the ending. I don't understand if Joe dies, or if the author just left the ending hanging.
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Summary: The Power of One
Review: This book was quite powerful. It made me think about all the people who fought for our country. It made me think about all those men who died for us, and how many lost an arm a leg or just about everything except their minds. Johnny is a guy who never gave up and wants people to know what the war can do to a person. Everyone should read this book. It is not the most exciting, but it makes people think, is war really worth all the lives that are gone.
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Summary: Hard to follow and sometimes boring
Review: This book was the most anti-war book I've ever read. I didn't really love it and I didn't really hate it. It's hard to follow as he flashes back and forth from the present to the past. There are some parts that could have been left out, that just seemed to drag the book along. However, if the book didn't flash back and forth, you would not know Joe before he went to war. I think Joes attitude towards war changed after his meeting with the shell. I was most disappointed with the ending. It was the stupidest ending to a book. It was like the author ran out of thoughts and just ended the book like a 2nd grader. This is a good book for people who really want to know the tragedies of war. Other than that, I would not reccomend this to anyone.
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Summary: One-sided story with a prejudice view
Review: When reading Johnny Got His Gun the words magnificent and masterpiece never crossed my mind. The author tries to turn people against war and makes them think that nothing good will come out of it.I agree that war is horrible but some times it's the only solution.I don't care for a book that follows a character that just sits there and feels sorry for himself.Students should not be forced to read this book,I mean if this is considered a masterpiece I wonder what they consider garbage.
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Summary: SO/SO
Review: I feel that I would have liked this book if the style of writing would have been different. This book showed the real horors of war. I do not agree with the anti-war theme. War will never be shot out of the big picture. If I would have to fight, it would be easier if I was old enough to know the true meaning of "war".
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Summary: It wasn't the most interesting book I've read
Review: This book was very hard to follow at the beginning. It got much easier to follow at the end. It was one of the most anti-war books that I've ever read. This book had to many things brought back from Joe's life. Maybe if we have known him better we could have enjoyed it a lot more. Joe's explanation of war was who needed it. So Joe's history was that he had regreted going to war.
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Summary: GREAT! A must read for younger generations! A 4 and 3/4
Review: I felt this book has many intresting points. Where am I in the anti-war status? I haven't decided, but I am sure that it has given me something to think about. It must be taken with more of an intelectual status. To be able to be in that position is mind boggling. Can I ever be able to comprehind this struggle for communication? To be a piece of man not, as some views not a human but a thing, 100% man. Can I believe this happening? Yes, I could. Can I believe that he would be hidden and sheltered from society? Yes. The end of your life and all you have is hope, to be able to communicate and then once you do.........you're shot down, your are to be shut up and never to be heard again. No one, exspecially your loved ones, will know you're alive. This is a top book, and a must be added into my book collection. And I would ask anyone and everyone to read this.(a personal note to "from notnebraska, usa" I find it offensive when you judge others exspecially students who are just descovering themselves! Everyone has a right to their opinion even it may be negative, and if you disaprove of our country and constitution you have no right of stating that opinion. Thank you very much! and it isn't always the teacher's fault it is the negative opinion of others, cough, ahem)
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Summary: A must read
Review: I think Johnny Got His Gun is a book that everyone should read at least once. I agree with Joe, the main character, that war is pointless. Those that die never get to see freedom or liberty, so what are they fighting for it? I think every High School student should read this book and discuss it for a class. It is a good experience, especially when you make a study of war using books, movies, and plays. We have been studying war for the last month, and in that month we read Bury the Dead, Johnny Got His Gun, and watched Saving Private Ryan. All of these fell together so well. It was an excellent experience. The one thing I didn't like about the book is the end. This is probably because I didn't like the fact that when he was finally able to do what he had been trying to do for so long, they made him stop, and I wanted to know more. Did he die, did he live, did they keep him quiet, did they let him communicate?
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Summary: Not the greatest
Review: "Johnny Got His Gun" can mean different things to different people. I felt that this book was worth the time that we took to read it. It exposed us students to what the war was like. Joe's condition was a little over exagerated but it made me aware that people are not all the same. The beginning was slow and the ending could have been better, but what was all in-between, was decent.
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Summary: A New Way of Thinking
Review: This novel is by far one of the most brilliant pieces of work I have ever encountered. I have never before thought of war as in-depth as Joe did in this book. Reading this definitely shines a completely different light on the subject of war than what is usually seen. In this book, we see the anguish, heartache, and regret of a young, innocent soldier turned into an immobile torso. The author does not attempt to shield us from the reality that was shoved into Joe's face from the beginning. In essence, this book strips all euphemisms of the past, and puts the harsh brutality of warfare into perspective for any citizen - war hero or civilian. Everyone should read this, if not to educate themselves about war, then to sharpen their own consciensness of human strife.
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