One of the topics in Johnny Got His Gun is isolation. Joe Bonham, the main character, loses his arms, legs, and the front of his head, thus losing the ability of seeing, smelling, hearing, and speaking, during combat in World War I. Doctors manage to keep him alive, though he is in very bad condition. Joe is very aware, though he can not communicate with the outside world. He deals with the feeling of isolation due to the fact he is locked into his own world because of his inability to communicate with others.

This is a very frightening thought. Joe, at one point, deals with the idea that he really does not know whether he is asleep or awake because he cannot shout out to wake himself up, or if he could, he could not hear his shouts. He could not open his eyes to see the sun rising and tell whether or not he was awake. This thought is very disturbing and the only way to quell it was tha

Many say they are willing to die for their country, but Johnny Got His Gun entered into the area of question of whether or not people are willing to suffer for their country, or, in fact, live the rest of their lives in the condition Joe is forced to live in. Being afraid the answer is no, that they can't endure it, is the reason it should be banned from high school's curriculum. There was definitely a need to ban it during times of war due to the anti-patriotic feelings it could inspire, but it should only, from now on, be banned from public high school's curriculums because they are supported by the government. Johnny Got His Gun should, though, be available to any American citizen wishing read it. This is, after all, a free country.

t he knew, to a reasonable degree of certainty, that when he felt the nurses hands on his back, he was awake. But then he even began to question that, wondering if it is just a dream, just as the rat chewing on his legs was a dream.

Though there is a difference between informing a generation of the dangers of war and the pain it causes and the inspiration of anti-patriotic feelings, Johnny Got His Gun crosses those lines. It is only so dangerous to be read in schools because it expresses the message so well. If schools promote the reading of this book, so

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