This novel has many important aspects such as main character, main character's dynamic growth and main character's static immobility but the most significant aspect is the use of symbolism. The story's purpose as a whole is to inform that war is not filled with glory but pain and suffering. Life is something much to valuable to be taken for granted. People say I'd rather die with honor than live with disgrace. These are the words of stupidity because no one knows what death is like and there is no turning back after you are dead. Johnny was fortunate enough to be alive after the bomb exploded, however he was operated on so much that the only thing left was a living stump. He could not see, eat, breath, smell, touch, or walk. Only in that state can a person really appreciates lif

e. 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.

What Joe wants most is to let the world know about the horrors of war. He assures his keepers that he could support himself in this venture if only they would let him out (people would be glad to pay to see a "freak" such as himself). The answer he receives in return, one, which had to be "literally" pounded into his forehead: "What you ask is against regulations." That is when his last glimmer of hope vanished for ever, there was nothing for him to look forward to and keep him alive any longer, nothing to keep him from going mad, its was gone...forever.

American life is valuable, not to say that it is any more precious than anyone else's but that Americans have their freedom. This enables them to make decisions to protect themselves without the fear of being reprimanded. Not everyone can make individual decisions without a cause-effect. However he believed that no one should die for their country or any lame reason their country gives them. Such as many mendacious reasons the American government gave to its people. "If they weren't fighting for liberty, they were fighting for independence or democracy or freedom or decency or honor or their native land or something else that didn't mean anything." Joe Bonham experiences much internal conflict within this story. He stru

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Approximate Word count = 1239
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)