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I just got through half of the book and its very confusing. At first i had no idea what is going on. As i read more and more i finally started to get it. Joe was telling about people in his life before the war. It then switches back to him in the hospital bed while he is without limbs and deaf. I am wondering what will happen to him since he is basically unable to move or do anything for that matter. I also hope to learn why they are showing lives of the people in his past.
After reading this book i feel really angry about how joe is treated. In The end he is not let out because he is a proof to American society that going into war can be very tragic. i cannot imagine how Joe must feel during this book. If i ever had to go through that i would never be able to live. I would actually go insane. Overall this was a good book altough it dragged at some points.
I am not sure about this book. Whenever I read something I think it's possible that everything is just an illusion. I don't know how to decipher real from unreal. I also get confused because of how he jumps around to different points in his life and it isn't even chronological.
On the other hand, I like how he describes all of the emotions he is feeling and everything that is going on in his head. he is very descriptive and it helps to paint a good mental image.
This book got me confused at first because it jumped to different things all the time. But by the half of the book I realized that he was in a comma and sometimes he remembered of people and things that happened before the accident that ruined his life. I was very shocked when I realized that he was in a comma for years. I could not imagine how it would be to live in that way; when you can still think but cannot move and not even talk.
Jon is a very strong person, because he can live in that way.
After finishing the book, I realized that all of Jon's hopes were pointless. I was very upset that he wasn't let out of the hospital. He is a human being and had the right to be happy even after suffering such a bad accident. Just because his body was an example of what war really causes, people wouldn't let him out. It just shows that the government doesn't want the people to know the truth, and they keep lying to people.
I would recommend this book to anyone because it's an eye opener of the reality of war.
When I finished this book, I realized the brutality of war. It made me think that maybe to this day us Americans are being lied to about what is happening in the war in Iraq. What is happening over there might be a lot worse than what we are told. Joe wasn't allowed to be released from the hospital because the doctors did not want people to realize how the war affects the people who fight in it. Joe was left blind, mute, deaf, and limbless. This book made me have a new point of view on war and people should read Johnny Got His Gun if they want to know about the harsh realities of war.
After reading this book, it really opened my eyes to the tragedies of war. Joe thinks that the people willing to trade their lives for words like, liberty, honor, and motherland, are fools. He says that war isn't worth trading your life for, that its the governments war not the peoples. Which I thought was pretty interesting. Joe's body was proof of the horrors of war. The part that angered me was when the doctor wouldn't let Joe go. When he had every right to do so. This showed how the government feared him because they wanted people to fight. I never liked war books, but this book i really liked.
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