You have now finished reading your literature circle novel. After discussing the book with your group, share your final impressions of the book.
*In an earlier blog post you talked about a challenge in the novel, how was the challenge faced in your novel?
*Which character did you relate to the most? Why?
* What did you learn from the book?
Using the iTouches, answer all of the above questions in complete sentences.
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Carl H.
ReplyDeleteEarlier I wrote how I predicted that Joe would find a way to communicate. My prediction was correct. Joe communicated by moving his head up and down in Morse code and people could talk to him by tapping Morse code on his skin.
Over all I liked the book. The beginning was a bit hard to understand however as a result you felt how the main character Joe was feeling. It was confusing to the reader showing effectively the feelings of Joe as he slowly realized his plight. I greatly appreciated the strong anti war sentiment in the book. It very clearly shows what war really is. It also states the simple desire of every human, simply to live. This book helped me think about our current conflicts. It taught me to think again and you would think that this book would have made more people think again. You can not blunder into war, (socially accepted mass murder), on a few slogans and irrational fears.
In my earlier post, I talked about the challege of his condition and his lack of communication ability. Joe overcame this by using a combanation of morse code and tapping his head. He was able to make the docters understand after some persistant tapping, and a matter of time.
ReplyDeleteI think that I can relate to Joe the most. This is because Joe had to keep going, even though what he was doing seemed hopeless. He felt that he would mercer make the docters understand, but he had to.
In reading the book, I learned that war is not a pretty thing, and the concequences of was could affect anyone and everyone. War was often thought of as a way to earn honor, instead of a way to get killed. I learned that there is nothing noble about being dead, because Joe could consider himself dead, and he wanted to tell the world about how awful war is.
Having completed Johnny got his gun, many of my predictions have turned out to be correct. Joe is eventually successful in his attempts to communicate, but he is immediately shut down (by being drugged against his will into submission) when he finally voices his wish to become an example of the horrers of war. I think I can relate to Joe the most, if only because he is the only character really described in depth. I understand his wishes to be hidden from his family because I don't think I would want my friends and family to see me if I were in joe's place. One thing I learned from Johnny got his gun is that you can't always trust authority. All along Joe disliked the doctors for completely taking away all control he could have had, but Joe still trusted them to listen to his wishes when he as finally able to communicate them. Instead, the doctor sedated him, proving to Joe that the doctors were on the side of war and pain and evarything that had caused him to be in the horrible condition that he awoke one day to find himself in.
ReplyDeleteIn Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, Joe is faced with the challenge of communicating with the people in the world around him. It takes Joe quite a long time to figure out that morse code is the best way to talk. Once he manages to reach out to others, they deny all of his requests and drug him so he will stop talking. Out of all the people that Joe mentions in the book, I am probably the most like Joe himself. Besides, none of the others are really built up as much as Joe.
ReplyDeleteI learned from the book to hate war. the way that it is so graphically described really gets to me. All intrigue that I had about war is now gone.