![]() ![]() “Dalton Trumbo worked as a cub reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, covering courts, the high school, the mortuary and civic organizations. ![]() Joe soon realises he is ‘the nearest thing to a dead man on Earth … a dead man with a mind that could think’.” More in the Guardian review On Dalton Trumbo Theatrical poster for the film adaptation of Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun. His face, meanwhile, has been obliterated by the shell and what is left – ‘a red gash … with mucus hanging from it’ – is now covered by a mask to avoid distressing the nurses.ĭespite his injuries, his mind still functions as well as ever, letting him think back to his childhood in small-town Colorado and allowing him to contemplate the full horror of his situation. ![]() “After his dugout suffers a direct hit from a German shell in the last days of the Great War, 20-year-old American infantryman Joe Bonham gradually comes to in a French hospital.Īs his thoughts become more lucid, he realises he has been left deaf, dumb and blind and that all four of his limbs have subsequently been amputated. ~Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun Plot summary He can’t prove the thing he is talking about so how in the hell can he be telling you to fight for it?” But a guy says come on let’s fight for liberty and he can’t show you liberty. A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. “What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It’s just a word like house or table or any other word. ![]()
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