Johnny Got His Gun Book Report

Part I of Essay
Dalton Trumbo's JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN is a controversial anti-war story of a soldier who lost his arms, his legs, and most of his face in a World War I from a shell. Trumbo's soldier is Joe Bonham who comes from a patriotic background. The boy works in a bakery, supports his m ....

Part II of Essay
.... with a nurse through Morse Code. She informs the soldiers. At the end of the movie Joe wants them to put him in a sideshow where, as a freak, he can make a living by making people see what happened to him in the war . If they won't do that, he wants them to kill him. The army does not do either. The nurse tries killing him but does not succeed because a army officer walks in on her when she was in the middle of the act. The irony of it all was that a patriotic young man went off and was wounded for no great reason. His mind remains the only t ....