Johnny Got His Gunn

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in that state can a person really appreciates life. Johnny got his gun to fight for a cause, but what was that cause? Was he fighting to make the world safe for democracy, was he fighting for glory, for honor, for patriotism? He was used just like many other foolish young and old men who went to fight. They did not really understand what war was all about until they saw the guts of they guy they lived next to their entire childhood spilled across the muddy trenches. Using Johnny and his experience during the war and after lying in bed for 7 years Trumbo points out his views against war and injustices.
Johnny got his gun deals with other aspects which Trumbo revealed using symbolism. He goes into talking about abandonment, body self-image, human worth, institutionalization, loneliness, suffering, survival, time, trauma, war and medicine.
Only after losing all your limbs, your nose, your sight, your ability to hear and speak your sense of smell, and taste does a person realize that ...

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themselves. Now does this mean that every typical American youth goes to whore houses and drinks and goes camping, of course not…but that was the thing to do back then.
Does this mean that all American teens like to do is party hard and go to whorehouses? This does not say anything about America because you can’t judge a country by some of its inhabitants. No everyone is the same, as times change so will people’s deeds. People may not change from the inside but from the outside they will change and conform to fit whatever the normality might be. My view of a typical American now days fits the description of an early 20th century teen. It is someone who hangs out with his friends, goes to ...

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