What We Take for Granted
People always say it's the little things that we take for granted. Whether it bebeing able to talk with someone, or hold someone, or even just being able to tell what time of day it is. In Dalton Trumbos' novel, "Johnny Got His Gun", one really begins to understands what it would be like to have very simple things taken away from them. Joe Bonhame, finds himself tragically injured from the war. Over time he slowly begins to realize all of the things that he has lost. The first thing that he loses is his hearing. "He was awake even though he couldn't hear a thing except a telephone that wasn't ringing. He was mighty scared"(p9). At first Joe doesn't realize that he has lost his hearing and he is under the impression that there is actually a phone ringing somewhere, but, it's really only in his mind. But once he realizes that he actually can't hear anything at all, he goes into a state of shock almost. "The shock caused his heart to smash against his ribs. He grew prickly all over. His heart was pounding away in his chest but he couldn't hear the pulsing in his ear"(p10). He then begins to think about all the things that he will never again get to experience. At first he thinks about all the bad
is time."All that he knew was that on a day in September in 1918 time stopped"(p126). can do is cheer him on and stop and think about all the little things that they take for coming down fast or the slow thunder as it hit or the whine of an airplane can get a hold o yourself and keep yourself in the world but if you lose it why then you something much more important. Without it, a person could go crazy, as Joe almost are lost too"(p126). For Joe, there were no options. he had to regain a sense of time hear the biting little castanent sound of a machine gun or the high whistle of a .75
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Approximate Word count = 964
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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