Johnny Got His Gun Point Of View

My dad examines the pole and realizes that the pole has snapped about 8 inches above the reel. I think to myself that the trip must be over now. No fishing pole, no fish simple as that. “I know what we’ll do” my Dad says as he walks over to his green bag. He opens up a side pocket and picks out a shiny new hook.

journalist. These two very different brothers are brought together through the years by a mutual love of fly fishing instilled in them by their unyielding father. As Norman watches his brother's seemingly charmed life dissolve under the influences of gambling and alcohol, the art of fly fishing becomes a touching metaphor for the love their father was unable to express in any other way.

The short story “The Boat” by Alistair MacLeod is narrated by a man who comes from a fishing family. His mother’s side of the family has forever lived and worked by the sea and continues this tradition. The narrator’s father always wanted to be an academic, but worked on the boat to support his family. Through this passage it is evident that the parents’ characters clash in many aspects of their lives and are in constant conflict. MacLeod demonstrates this through the use of repetition, the contrast in other unrelated ideas, and through information that is withheld.

This story also paints the picture of a father who would not give up on regaining his time with his son. It shows the father desperately trying to rectify the mistrust issues he created because he stated to the boy when they were sitting in the diner after the highway patrol redirected them away from the snow-covered route home that she would never forgive him if he did not get the boy home for

The first passage reveals the parallel suffering occurring in the lives of different members of the family, which emphasizes the echoes between the sufferings of the father and the narrator. The narrator’s father’s despair over having watched

Their relationship changes numerous times throughout the short story, beginning with two men leading separate lives and being relatively unconcerned with each other, and acting more or less like acquaintances, rather than a father and son. “At that moment I realised he was speaking to me not as a father... but as he would speak to a friend, to anyone, and it undid me” (pp.22). However,

While winning an arm wrestling match with his father, Manning feels the same thrill as hooking a giant fish. But he decides he would be happier if he “let him go, cut the line, keep the legend alive.” Reference of the father as a big fish stresses his physical and spiritual prominence. By referring to him as a “legend,” Manning clearly shows his awe and admiration for his father and his authorities as a guardian of the family. Though his father is growing weak, his former presence as a protective father will always remain as his legend. The reference to the big fish can also relate to Daniel Wallace’s Big Fish. The novel is similar with Manning’s story in that it is about a father-and-son relationship where Edward, the father, becomes a legendary big fish through his stories, just as Manning’s father is portrayed as a “Big Joe” for his significance in the family. Manning’s decision to free the fish reflects his desire not to destroy his father’s glory but preserve

Every individual comes to a point in their life in which they begin to swim away from the harbor their parents raised them in, and begin navigating their own life. Dalton Trumbo uniquely portrays the familiar concept of coming-of-age, within a passage from his novel Johnny Got His Gun, in which he depicts a son wanting to take a friend fishing instead of his father who has taken him annually during their camping trip. Trumbo gives insight into the internal turmoil that strikes when confronting ones parents about wanting to drift away from the anchor they’ve been for them. He clearly articulates his point, illustrating the flow in thought from tense to reflective using precise selection of detail, applying a shift in point of view, and naturalistic imagery.

Also, after walking past a village, the son claims to have seen a little boy and begs his father if they can go back and get him. The man then says “Stop it. We can’t[,]” (McCarthy 80) and thinks that his son sees things. Again, the selfish desire to survive prevents him from helping others. He does not want to go back because he does not want to do anything that will risk their lives. The thirst for survival becomes greater than his conscience. Hence it prevents him from giving into his son. Another time this occurs is when the man and his son are robbed by a stranger. The man catches him and takes back their stuff, along with the thief’s belongings. The son begs the father to show mercy on the criminal, but the father does not care and so “they set out along the road south with the boy crying and looking back at the nude and slat-like creature standing there… Shivering and hugging himself.” (McCarthy 229).

Religion and tradition are two ways that families come together. However in Norman Maclean’s novella, A River Runs Through It, the Maclean family’s devotion to their Presbyterian religion and their tradition of fly-fishing is what undeniably brought the family together. Under the father’s strict Presbyterian values, his sons, Norman and Paul used fly-fishing as the link that brought them closer together and helped them bond with their father on a different level. The family’s hobby of fly-fishing was started just for fun. It was a sport that was taken up every Sunday after church to take their minds off of the worries in life. After a while, going fly-fishing every Sunday turned into a tradition and soon a

Instead of taking part in those acts of survival, the boy and the man use each other's presence to continue with the grueling journey in search of civilization and humanity. The man and the boy held on to the hope they will travel south and live a normal life, escaping their current state of living. Their ambition and belief allow them to go through every day confident that, things will change for the better. The Man encourages his son through their journey on into the unknown and tells him that for him to survive he must travel south, do what they had done throughout their endeavors, and 'find the good guys'. This is a repetitive phrase throughout that novel that means the boy should meet up without individuals similar to them who haven’t resorted to cannibalism and dehumanization because catastrophe has struck, there is distrust in the natural world, fear, and alienation. But the reassurance the father gives his son to helps him continue the journey and strengthen their bond. The boy also symbolizes strength and dreams, the reason the man is alive is that of the boy. He helps him dream of the future. The boy’s curiosity helps the man remember good memories of his childhood, and he

Personal Investment is a major factor that people need to take into consideration when making any types of decisions, and it ultimately helps people understand if the decision they are making will either benefit or hurt them in the end. This theme is commonly used in many different types of literature and films throughout many years. One novel that includes personal investment is a classic World War 1 novel, Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo, an award-winning author and screenwriter who was blacklisted from the film industry from 1947 until the early '60s due to his Communist ties. Johnny Got His Gun is about a young soldier named Joe, who deals with many physical and mental consequences because of his involvement in war. Similarly, an old Civil War Era movie, Shenandoah, follows a man named Charlie Anderson and his family while they try to avoid the war as it invades their property. Although Joe and Charlie both

The famous anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun, is about the life of a war hero named Joe Bonham. The book talks about the consequences of war. He was a typical American guy with a normal life until he went to war. There he got badly injured and lost many of his limbs. The story describes the aftermath of Joe going to war and getting injured.

¨but he believed it would explain why he never seemed to fit into his parents life¨ (page 128) the point is that This shows that the parents didn't really pay attention to him and that also explains that he feels uncomfortable with his parents and the parents feel the same way. And maybe that also trying to say that the parents didn't have time for him because they might of had other things to do. Of course,it is possible to disagree with the view that There not connected to their parents .and instead argue that there close to their parents he is just thinks that but they do talk. but , other side is stronger since what must be remembered is that if there parents and him where close to each other then why would he say that he sometimes thinks that opinion then that means his parents might not really pay attention to him that he might feel that way or it could be other reasons that are not of him feeling ok with.That's why essentially they are don't connected with there parents.that will also explain why the excursion was

The hesitation devolves from not wanting to break the special tradition that the boy has with his father. It is not mentioned, but one can assume that another reason for the hesitance is because the young man does not want to wound his father’s feelings. The fishing trip was always consisting of the two of him, but now he would like to participate in the activity with someone else. “He knew it was something that had to happen sometime. Yet he also knew that it was the end of something, (para 2, lines 24-26).” The young man had foreseen this coming, because of it being inevitable. This decision would be the end of fishing with his father, but a new beginning of fishing with his