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Johnny got his gun

In the cold dark room where a limbless body lies, having none of the five senses. In the darkness the man expresses his thoughts to only himself with no one to listen to him. He has no way to communicate or even feel the outside world. As nostalgia thoughts and regrets come to his mind, he wonders if he has made the right decisions in life and imagines the many possibilities that he would have had. Having no sense of the outer world, his only way of knowing vaguely what is happening in the outer world is by his sensory nerves transmitting signal from his skin to his brain. The book that describes a limbless and powerless man that is a product of the cruel human warfare is Johnny Got His Gun, By Dalton Trumbo. In the story, Joe Bonham, a product of war, half-consciously lies in a hospital bed hoping for his death and regretting upon many decisions he had made in life.
Joe had grown up in Shale City, Colorado where he spent his childhood years. Remembering the food his mother use...

Posted by: Novelett Roberts

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