What was novel Johnny Got His Gun from World War 1 about?

Answer 1

"Johnny Got His Gun" is a novel about Joe Bonham, a 20-year-old man, that has been hit by a shell on the last day of World War One. The novel basically talks about Joe's memories of his family and girlfriend and his friends before he went to the war. It also alternates with what is occurring to Joe while he is in the hospital. He discovers that he has no face, he is deaf, and he has lost all his limbs. He can't do anything except rock from side to side, and he is a prisoner in his own body; he can't communicate with anyone. He later learns how to keep track of time by the amount of times that his nurse visits him. He counts out about six years, and then he discovers that he can communicate by using Morse code. He starts tapping with his head, and the nurse sedates him. Then Joe gets a new nurse that understands that he is trying to communicate, and she gets someone who knows Morse Code to communicate with him. The man that comes is mean and Joe feels bitter. "Johnny Got His Gun" is an anti-war novel, and it talks about what freedom really is and how the dead might really feel and things like that.