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In three pages this paper examines the internal and external conflicts experienced by protagonist Joe Bonham in this antiwar novel written by Dalton Trumbo. There are no other sources cited in the bibliography.
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same year author Dalton Trumbo published his antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun. The title was a reference to the first line in the George M. Cohan song, Over
There, which was popular with American soldiers during the First World War: Johnny, get your gun. It is the penultimate postmodern war horror story that features a protagonist named
Joe Bonham based on an actual World War I soldier who suffered catastrophic injuries after coming into what was supposed to be deadly contact with an enemy shell. In
a narrative that takes place completely within Joes head, it is revealed that as a result of his wartime duty to Uncle Sam: "His eyes snapped out as quickly as
if somebody had shut them off with a switch... He had no arms and no legs. He threw back his head and started to yell from fright. But...
he had no mouth to yell with. He tried to work his jaws and he had no jaws... he didnt have a tongue and he hadnt any teeth... He
tried to swallow but he couldnt because he had no palate and there werent any muscles left to swallow with... He was breathing hard and fast now but he wasnt
really breathing because there wasnt any air passing through his nose. He didnt have a nose" (Trumbo 79, 81). Joe should have been dead, but he was not.
His brain was intact; he could think and feel (his hearing had been damaged by the sounds of combat). But he was rendered incapable of verbal and written
communications and deprived of the senses of sight, smell, touch, and taste. His internal conflict involved staying alive and the apparent transformation from humanity - since he had lost
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