Ruben Hernandez So far what I like while reading the book “Johnny Got His Gun” is how he is getting flash backs when he was fighting in WW1 and how there is so much violence. Its interesting to me how he was seeing all those other soldiers fight and get killed. Im confused of how he doesn’t notice how he is missing some parts of his body. Id like to discuss why nobody is helping him or telling him that he is missing some parts of his body. Something I would like to find out is who is going to tell him that hes missing some body parts? Im also wondering what is he going to do when he gets the news?
Ivan Assignment #2 Respond to your group members' first posting!
Hey Ruben when you said “it’s interesting to me how he was seeing all those other soldiers fight and get killed.” Joe means by dying with honor for democracy. Why he doesn’t notice that his body parts are missing because he can’t feel them, he can only feel his shoulders and below. How far were you in the book when you got confused?
Ivan Kalachik Assignment #1 As I was reading Johnny got his gun I realized that this book has lots of connections to my life. For example while I was reading in the beginning of page #3 it says “He wished the phone would stop ringing. It was bad enough to be sick let alone having a phone ring all night long.”I remember about two years ago it was a dark and windy night. Where I was sick for three days and left alone with the phone ringing all night long (it felt like). At the time my parents were coming back from Florida. It was them who were calling me, but I was so sick that I could not get up from bed to pick up the phone. Thank God they came home in a couple hours and helped me out with everything. On the other hand this book is kind of dry (if you know what mean); I know why this book is bound for us to read it. I don’t mean my life is boring and dry but this book is. It’s just the language that is used in this book. I’ll try to give it at least 20 more pages and see how that goes. Even thou it says this is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal… but so is war. Sounded really interesting, but war is not. I miss my brother who is a United States Marine. What is good about him is that he is not in infantry but he is an Aircraft Engineer. Future in the book I hope Johnny will feel like a human again, and feel better himself.
Johnny Got His Gun is a very diverse book. During my reading I stopped by an eye catching quote, "Life is awfully important so if you've given it away you'd ought to think with the thing you mind in the last moments of your life about the thing you traded it for. So did all of those kids die thinking of democracy and freedom and liberty and honor and the stars and stripes forever?"(pg.117) I have a connection to this quote, my uncle's friend died in Iraqi war like those kids that died in WWI. Before he left to US Army he was our best friend. Not only he helped us in our troubled times but also financially. When he was alive he cracked very funny jokes and had many creative activities and games! But he's gone, died with honor for our democracy. When I got to this point of the book where the kids die for democracy, I almost began crying because I remembered our best friend Anton. Why I chose this quote is because Anton Schultz is very important to me and our family. This passage helps me indicate why this book has been banned. My view on this is they did the wrong thing because the government needs teenagers to go to war.
1.Q: Would you go to war with honor for democracy?
2.Q: How would your response be about war, if one of your best relatives/friend die's like this in war?
3.Q: How would you feel if you were about to die when you were in war?
4.Q: What would you think about if you were about to die?
Johnny Got His Gun Chapter 1: Joe is nervous because the sound of the phone ringing over and over again. Joe’s mother is on the other line of the phone. He rush’s to answer it, but on his way he knocks over a bunch of stuff to get to the phone. When he finally answers the phone he finds out his father is dead. One of the works that was there at the time takes him to his home with his mother When He gets home he finds his sister in the corner and his mother greets him with a not so welcome feel. Without a final goodbye the man at the door take the body away. Chapter 2: Joe’s mother made food all autumn stuff like bread and fruit and sang while she did so. When Joe was younger his father worked at a store, but he would always play with things in the store and in the summers he and a couple of friends would gather primroses. After Lincoln Beechy came to his home town he dead several months later. When Joe’s birthday can around his mother cooked him a big dinner for him and his friends. When he got old enough he would take girls on dates and dance and smoke cigarettes with them.
Johnny Got His Gun Chapter 3: When he realized he could still feel, and that they were doctors. When Joe lost his arm he felt angry and victimized. Joe wanted to protest but couldn't. Why didn't the doctor’s just fix it? Because they were too lazy to so they cut it off. He was wondering how they would get rid of the arm? Where did the ring go? The last night with Kareen started going throw is mind, thinking about how her mom gave her the ring to give to him and told him her fears of him going to war. So they spent the night tougher before he had to leave. Chapter 4: When all the sudden Joe feels extremely hot and experience memory’s working on the railroads one summer in the desert with a boy named Howie. One day has pasted, Joe and Howie pasted out several time due to muscle pain and heat with the rest of the crew. When they decided to leave there homes in Shale City. When Howie received a telegram from Onie begging for Howie to come back home. Joe dumped his girlfriend for cheating on him with Glen Hogan. He was thinking regretfully about punching his best friend when he was on the train. He was also thinking about Dian and Gen getting tougher. Chapter 5: Joe had the feeling he was floating down a river maybe even part of the Colorado River that ran down into the Shale City, where he use to swim when he was a child. As he floated down the river he thought about talking to Kareen. All the sudden Joe hears rockets exploding and flashing in fornt of his eyes and then the pain had stopped and his mind went quite. When the pain stopped he was happy because he wasn’t hurting anymore. When he tried to left his body that’s when he realized he had no legs.
Ivan kalachik Assignment #4 In class we discussed Censorship; Censorship is the control of the information and ideas circulated within a society (http://gilc.org/speech/osistudy/censorship/). My view of censorship in today's world is plain and straight forward. If you have to ban books, for the crimes that happen in books. For the safety of the society. Would I ever accept to band a book from a school library, yes I would not just because of the safety to the society but for the government as well. In the book it mentioned “Joe suddenly realizes that they are afraid to let him out, to let other men see him as the "new messiah of the battlefields." If other men see Joe, they would no longer agree to fight in wars—especially wars ordered by the upper classes, but fought only by the lower classes of peaceful, working men.” this quote supports why this book is banned from the library because nobody would go to war. This book is antiwar, and this book is bad for the government. Censorship yes I think there is allot of it in our world. On the other hand we might ban books with a good reason, but for a bad purpose. For example Johnny Got His Gun reason, the earlier quote.
Ivan Assignment #4 Book Review 1. SYNOPSIS- Joe Bonham lies injured in a hospital bed. While conscious Joe gets flashbacks about his past. Time passes and Joe tries to occupy his mind with stories, facts, and figures. One day, he realizes that he should use the neck skin he has left not covered by blankets. One day a nurse tries to communicate with Joe by spelling out merry Christmas on his chest. Later the nurse goes to get a man who understands Morse code. This man taps onto Joe's forehead the words "what do you want?" The man listens to his response and returns a while later to tap on his head, "What you ask is against regulations." If other men see Joe, they wouldn’t agree to fight in wars, especially wars ordered by the upper classes, but fought only by the lower classes of peaceful working men. 2. OPINION/ASSESSMENT- My experience reading the book was really surprising, to tell you the truth I would be antiwar too if the same thing happened to me. This book was surprising to me because I was for military but now I don’t know if I will even want to go now! What I thought about the book was, the book would be kind of boring but I actually liked it. How did the book made me feel was discouraged more of like anger to those who did this to him. At the same time I really felt sad cause I have allot of connections of my family experience about military. What I really liked about the book was the communication, between the nurse and Joe. The Morse code surprised me the most. What I don’t like the most is that Joe struggles to come to terms with the war injury that has left him limbless and faceless. He also tries to communicate with the outside world and asks to be displayed as an example of the terrible results war can have. I would not recommend this book because it’s antiwar and we need people to go to army and serve our country. On the other hand Trumbo feared the book was inappropriate for the time period, and was turned over to the FBI. In a rather nasty turn of events, the FBI came to investigate Trumbo himself because of his Communist sympathies. 3. BACKGROUND- Johnny Got His Gun is clearly an antiwar novel. While the root of this sentiment involves the brutality of war, Joe also protests the organization of modern warfare that has the interests of the moneyed classes as its purpose. Dalton Trumbo was born in Montrose, CO, The United States December 09, 1905. Died on September 10, 1976. Dalton Trumbo worked as a cub reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, covering courts, the high school, the mortuary and civic organizations. He attended the University of Colorado for two years working as a reporter for the Boulder Daily Camera and contributing to the campus humor magazine, the yearbook and the campus newspaper. He got his start working for Vogue magazine. His first published novel, Eclipse, was about a town and its people, written in the social realist style, and drew on his years in Grand Junction. He started writing for movies in 1937; by the 1940s, he was one of Hollywood's highest paid writers for work on such films as Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944), and Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), and Kitty Foyle (1940). Trumbo's 1939 anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun, won a National Book Award (then known as an American Book Sellers Award) that year. The novel was inspired by an article Trumbo read about a soldier who was horribly disfigured during World War I. (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/29068.Dalton_Trumbo)
When I realized that Johnny had no body parts what so ever it shocked me because it was sad that he was disable and he had gone thru so much during war. While he was in the hospital he kept asking so many questions not knowing he was permitnatly disable and he wasnt able to see or hear. I dislike how the theme switch from one place to another. It was confusing how he kept getting flash backs and it got me out of track from where i was. I honestly didnt like the book because of how confusing it was.
Ruben Hernandez
ReplyDeleteSo far what I like while reading the book “Johnny Got His Gun” is how he is getting flash backs when he was fighting in WW1 and how there is so much violence.
Its interesting to me how he was seeing all those other soldiers fight and get killed.
Im confused of how he doesn’t notice how he is missing some parts of his body.
Id like to discuss why nobody is helping him or telling him that he is missing some parts of his body. Something I would like to find out is who is going to tell him that hes missing some body parts? Im also wondering what is he going to do when he gets the news?
Ivan
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Respond to your group members' first posting!
Hey Ruben when you said “it’s interesting to me how he was seeing all those other soldiers fight and get killed.” Joe means by dying with honor for democracy. Why he doesn’t notice that his body parts are missing because he can’t feel them, he can only feel his shoulders and below. How far were you in the book when you got confused?
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As I was reading Johnny got his gun I realized that this book has lots of connections to my life. For example while I was reading in the beginning of page #3 it says “He wished the phone would stop ringing. It was bad enough to be sick let alone having a phone ring all night long.”I remember about two years ago it was a dark and windy night. Where I was sick for three days and left alone with the phone ringing all night long (it felt like). At the time my parents were coming back from Florida. It was them who were calling me, but I was so sick that I could not get up from bed to pick up the phone. Thank God they came home in a couple hours and helped me out with everything.
On the other hand this book is kind of dry (if you know what mean); I know why this book is bound for us to read it. I don’t mean my life is boring and dry but this book is. It’s just the language that is used in this book. I’ll try to give it at least 20 more pages and see how that goes. Even thou it says this is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal… but so is war. Sounded really interesting, but war is not. I miss my brother who is a United States Marine. What is good about him is that he is not in infantry but he is an Aircraft Engineer. Future in the book I hope Johnny will feel like a human again, and feel better himself.
Ivan
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Johnny Got His Gun is a very diverse book. During my reading I stopped by an eye catching quote, "Life is awfully important so if you've given it away you'd ought to think with the thing you mind in the last moments of your life about the thing you traded it for. So did all of those kids die thinking of democracy and freedom and liberty and honor and the stars and stripes forever?"(pg.117) I have a connection to this quote, my uncle's friend died in Iraqi war like those kids that died in WWI. Before he left to US Army he was our best friend. Not only he helped us in our troubled times but also financially. When he was alive he cracked very funny jokes and had many creative activities and games! But he's gone, died with honor for our democracy.
When I got to this point of the book where the kids die for democracy, I almost began crying because I remembered our best friend Anton. Why I chose this quote is because Anton Schultz is very important to me and our family. This passage helps me indicate why this book has been banned. My view on this is they did the wrong thing because the government needs teenagers to go to war.
1.Q: Would you go to war with honor for democracy?
2.Q: How would your response be about war, if one of your best relatives/friend die's like this in war?
3.Q: How would you feel if you were about to die when you were in war?
4.Q: What would you think about if you were about to die?
Johnny Got His Gun
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Joe is nervous because the sound of the phone ringing over and over again. Joe’s mother is on the other line of the phone. He rush’s to answer it, but on his way he knocks over a bunch of stuff to get to the phone. When he finally answers the phone he finds out his father is dead. One of the works that was there at the time takes him to his home with his mother When He gets home he finds his sister in the corner and his mother greets him with a not so welcome feel. Without a final goodbye the man at the door take the body away.
Chapter 2:
Joe’s mother made food all autumn stuff like bread and fruit and sang while she did so. When Joe was younger his father worked at a store, but he would always play with things in the store and in the summers he and a couple of friends would gather primroses. After Lincoln Beechy came to his home town he dead several months later. When Joe’s birthday can around his mother cooked him a big dinner for him and his friends. When he got old enough he would take girls on dates and dance and smoke cigarettes with them.
Johnny Got His Gun
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When he realized he could still feel, and that they were doctors. When Joe lost his arm he felt angry and victimized. Joe wanted to protest but couldn't. Why didn't the doctor’s just fix it? Because they were too lazy to so they cut it off. He was wondering how they would get rid of the arm? Where did the ring go? The last night with Kareen started going throw is mind, thinking about how her mom gave her the ring to give to him and told him her fears of him going to war. So they spent the night tougher before he had to leave.
Chapter 4:
When all the sudden Joe feels extremely hot and experience memory’s working on the railroads one summer in the desert with a boy named Howie. One day has pasted, Joe and Howie pasted out several time due to muscle pain and heat with the rest of the crew. When they decided to leave there homes in Shale City. When Howie received a telegram from Onie begging for Howie to come back home. Joe dumped his girlfriend for cheating on him with Glen Hogan. He was thinking regretfully about punching his best friend when he was on the train. He was also thinking about Dian and Gen getting tougher.
Chapter 5:
Joe had the feeling he was floating down a river maybe even part of the Colorado River that ran down into the Shale City, where he use to swim when he was a child. As he floated down the river he thought about talking to Kareen. All the sudden Joe hears rockets exploding and flashing in fornt of his eyes and then the pain had stopped and his mind went quite. When the pain stopped he was happy because he wasn’t hurting anymore. When he tried to left his body that’s when he realized he had no legs.
Ivan kalachik
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In class we discussed Censorship; Censorship is the control of the information and ideas circulated within a society (http://gilc.org/speech/osistudy/censorship/). My view of censorship in today's world is plain and straight forward. If you have to ban books, for the crimes that happen in books. For the safety of the society. Would I ever accept to band a book from a school library, yes I would not just because of the safety to the society but for the government as well. In the book it mentioned “Joe suddenly realizes that they are afraid to let him out, to let other men see him as the "new messiah of the battlefields." If other men see Joe, they would no longer agree to fight in wars—especially wars ordered by the upper classes, but fought only by the lower classes of peaceful, working men.” this quote supports why this book is banned from the library because nobody would go to war. This book is antiwar, and this book is bad for the government.
Censorship yes I think there is allot of it in our world. On the other hand we might ban books with a good reason, but for a bad purpose. For example Johnny Got His Gun reason, the earlier quote.
Ivan
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Book Review
1. SYNOPSIS- Joe Bonham lies injured in a hospital bed. While conscious Joe gets flashbacks about his past. Time passes and Joe tries to occupy his mind with stories, facts, and figures. One day, he realizes that he should use the neck skin he has left not covered by blankets. One day a nurse tries to communicate with Joe by spelling out merry Christmas on his chest. Later the nurse goes to get a man who understands Morse code. This man taps onto Joe's forehead the words "what do you want?" The man listens to his response and returns a while later to tap on his head, "What you ask is against regulations." If other men see Joe, they wouldn’t agree to fight in wars, especially wars ordered by the upper classes, but fought only by the lower classes of peaceful working men.
2. OPINION/ASSESSMENT- My experience reading the book was really surprising, to tell you the truth I would be antiwar too if the same thing happened to me. This book was surprising to me because I was for military but now I don’t know if I will even want to go now! What I thought about the book was, the book would be kind of boring but I actually liked it. How did the book made me feel was discouraged more of like anger to those who did this to him. At the same time I really felt sad cause I have allot of connections of my family experience about military. What I really liked about the book was the communication, between the nurse and Joe. The Morse code surprised me the most. What I don’t like the most is that Joe struggles to come to terms with the war injury that has left him limbless and faceless. He also tries to communicate with the outside world and asks to be displayed as an example of the terrible results war can have. I would not recommend this book because it’s antiwar and we need people to go to army and serve our country. On the other hand Trumbo feared the book was inappropriate for the time period, and was turned over to the FBI. In a rather nasty turn of events, the FBI came to investigate Trumbo himself because of his Communist sympathies.
3. BACKGROUND- Johnny Got His Gun is clearly an antiwar novel. While the root of this sentiment involves the brutality of war, Joe also protests the organization of modern warfare that has the interests of the moneyed classes as its purpose. Dalton Trumbo was born in Montrose, CO, The United States December 09, 1905. Died on September 10, 1976. Dalton Trumbo worked as a cub reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, covering courts, the high school, the mortuary and civic organizations. He attended the University of Colorado for two years working as a reporter for the Boulder Daily Camera and contributing to the campus humor magazine, the yearbook and the campus newspaper. He got his start working for Vogue magazine. His first published novel, Eclipse, was about a town and its people, written in the social realist style, and drew on his years in Grand Junction. He started writing for movies in 1937; by the 1940s, he was one of Hollywood's highest paid writers for work on such films as Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944), and Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), and Kitty Foyle (1940).
Trumbo's 1939 anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun, won a National Book Award (then known as an American Book Sellers Award) that year. The novel was inspired by an article Trumbo read about a soldier who was horribly disfigured during World War I. (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/29068.Dalton_Trumbo)
When I realized that Johnny had no body parts what so ever it shocked me because it was sad that he was disable and he had gone thru so much during war. While he was in the hospital he kept asking so many questions not knowing he was permitnatly disable and he wasnt able to see or hear. I dislike how the theme switch from one place to another. It was confusing how he kept getting flash backs and it got me out of track from where i was. I honestly didnt like the book because of how confusing it was.
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