Dalton Trumbo's JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN is a controversial anti-war story of a soldier who lost his arms, his legs, and most of his face in a World War I from a shell. Trumbo's soldier is Joe Bonham who comes from a patriotic background. The boy works in a bakery, supports his mother and sisters after his father's death, he is in love with sweet Irish girl, and enlists in the army because it's the …showed first 75 words of 347 total…

…showed last 75 words of 347 total…not succeed because a army officer walks in on her when she was in the middle of the act. The irony of it all was that a patriotic young man went off and was wounded for no great reason. His mind remains the only thing alive in his vegetable like body. He becomes a prisoner of his own mind who will live that way until he dies of natural causes or what ever comes first.