Essays on Johnny Got His Gun

In every society, a person may have a voice, but not all voices hold power. In Dalton Trumbo’s depressing novel Johnny Got His Gun and Chinua Achebe’s cultural story Things Fall Apart, several characters reveal this struggle through their actions and thoughts. Joe from Johnny…

The novel Johnny Got His Gun was about a young man named Joe going through hard times. His life was always a struggle since he was a kid. Joe had many friends and worked to help his mom make money. Many conflicts occurred throughout the…

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo evidently proved that war is a morbid tragedy that ultimately could have been avoided. War is destructive, in the sense that it can leave you as a human vegetable, or even end your life completely. After reading Johnny…

Johnny Got His Gun is a disheartening story about the post World War I era. It’s about Joe Bonham. He was a military enlistee that went out and fought in the War. Joe was unfortunate enough to be caught in a major blast from an…

It seems that only during our most intimate circumstances do we find ourselves truly aware of the raw nature behind our most personal relationships. Dalton Trumbo, in an excerpt from his novel, Johnny Got His Gun, explores this intriguing aspect of reality through narration of…

Johnny Got His Gun: Social Connections Though written during the American interwar period during the first half of the twentieth century, Dalton Trumbo’s “Johnny Got His Gun” contains themes that remain relevant in today’s world, especially with the increasing number of armed conflicts in foreign…