What was novel Johnny Got His Gun from World War 1 about?
"Johnny Got His Gun" is a novel about Joe Bonham, a 20-year-old
man, that has been hit by a shell on the last day of World War One.
The novel basically talks about Joe's memories of his family and
girlfriend and his friends before he went to the war. It also
alternates with what is occurring to Joe while he is in the
hospital. He discovers that he has no face, he is deaf, and he has
lost all his limbs. He can't do anything except rock from side to
side, and he is a prisoner in his own body; he can't communicate
with anyone. He later learns how to keep track of time by the
amount of times that his nurse visits him. He counts out about six
years, and then he discovers that he can communicate by using Morse
code. He starts tapping with his head, and the nurse sedates him.
Then Joe gets a new nurse that understands that he is trying to
communicate, and she gets someone who knows Morse code to
communicate with him. The man that comes is mean and Joe feels
bitter. "Johnny Got His Gun" is an anti-war novel, and it talks
about what freedom really is and how the dead might really feel and
things like that.