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Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
Johnny Got His Gun is a war story, an atypical anti-war novel about the result of a young man going off to war in 1918. It is unflinching and devastating.
Taking place within the mind of our narrator Joe Bonham we get flashbacks to his pre war self, brief glimpses at combat, and most of all we get the stream-of-consciousness thoughts of a man trapped inside a prison that war created.
It’s a moving novel that will leave you thinking long after you finish it. It will make you reconsider notions such as liberty, freedom, decency, patriotism, and democracy. It’s a powerful novel that does one of the most powerful things a novel can do. It makes you re-examine your beliefs.
Taking place within the mind of our narrator Joe Bonham we get flashbacks to his pre war self, brief glimpses at combat, and most of all we get the stream-of-consciousness thoughts of a man trapped inside a prison that war created.
It’s a moving novel that will leave you thinking long after you finish it. It will make you reconsider notions such as liberty, freedom, decency, patriotism, and democracy. It’s a powerful novel that does one of the most powerful things a novel can do. It makes you re-examine your beliefs.