Johnny Got His Gun Quotes

Johnny had to kill Bob to save Ponyboy because there was no other way around. He couldn’t have stopped them because they were drunk and looking for a fight. (pg 44 and 55) He couldn’t have fought them without a weapon because it would have been a one on five.(pg 55) He had to stab Bob to make them stop because they wouldn’t have run away. They would have drowned Ponyboy.(pg 56 and 57) To save himself and his friend, the defendant had to stab Bob. It made them scared and run away because they had the sole thought of harming both of them so Johnny had to act fast before he was going to be killed along with Ponyboy.

When he was little his mom died, and his dad remarried to a woman named Thula. Thula did not like joe and she kicked him out when he was only ten years old. “She declared that she would not live under the same roof as joe, that Harry must choose between him and her. She said Joe would have to move out if she were to stay in a godforsaken place. Joe was only ten years old” (Brown 86,87). I never could understand how someone could kick a child out of the house and force them to live on their own when they are ten years old. As Joe grew up the more he needed his family, but his family was not there for him, at least not his biological family. When Joe made the rowing team that's the day that he got a new family, even if he did not know it at the time. So was Joyce, a beautiful girl who loved joe and they were going to get married and start a family of their own. “When joe stopped playing they talked about what it would be like when they were married and had a hoe and maybe kids” (Brown 102). Making the rowing team and meeting and falling in love with Joyce might have been the best thing that has ever happened to Joe. As soon as everything start going good for Joe, Thula gets an infection and dies. Not that it was a good thing that she died, it was very sad, but it brought Joe and his dad back together again. Harry wanted Joe to move back home with him and the kids. “I’m going to build a house where we can all live

Johnny began as a scared teen from a bad family and the wrong-side of the tracks. Ponyboy is describing the members of the gang, specifically Johnny, when he states, “And Johnny, who was the most law-abiding of us, now carried in his back pocket a six-inch switchblade. He’d use it, too, if he

Joe grows as a character throughout the book, his life began at a very young age when his mother Nellie died of throat cancer, this left Joe growing up without having a good mother figure in his life. Not only that, but Joe was also really sick at a young age by contracting scarlet fever. So he would be staying at his aunt Alma’s home, where he was raised as a young child. Later on when he turned five years old, he went to go back to living with Harry and his newly wedded wife Thula. “Harry Rantz packed his family into his Franklin touring car and headed northeast, to the mining camp where he had been working as a master mechanic for the past year.” (Brown 71). The longer Thula and Joe lived together, the bond between them

Johnny has a fear of Socs after getting jumped by them, which led him to kill Bob. He is regularly beaten by his father and emotionally abused by his mother. Ponyboy mentioned a quotation of Johnny   “ I had never been jumped, but I had seen Johnny after four Socs got hold of him, and it wasn’t pretty. Johnny was scared of his own shadow after that.” After Johnny killed Bob trying to protect Ponyboy from drowning he ran away with Ponyboy to an abandoned church in Windrixville. At the time he was afraid of anybody that he thought could hurt him. When the church went up in flames Johnny made the decision to run in with Ponyboy to save the children in the burning building. His gallant actions led to him being paralyzed, but he learned to overcome his fears of easily being frightened. Before that, he always used to think about killing himself because he was scared and hurt, but now knowing that he has something to live for he thought he was too young to die. He said this “you want to know something, Ponyboy? I’m scared stiff. I used to think about killing myself… ”, “ I don't want to die now. It ain’t long enough. Sixteen years ain’t long enough. I wouldn’t mind it so much if there wasn’t so much stuff I ain’t done yet --- and so many things I ain’t seen. It’s not fair. You know what? That time we were in Windrixville was the only time I’ve been away from our neighbourhood.” Thus, adversity can help to overcome the hardships and

To begin, Johnny is innocent for the murder of Bob concidering that Bob was killing Johnny’s third party Ponyboy, leaving Johnny to use self defence. “ ‘I had

Stated in Ponyboy´s though, “ Johnny's hand went to his back pocket and I remembered his switchblade” (Hinton pdf 47). It shows that Johnny had a concealed weapon the whole time. Meaning that he could attack anyone within his reach. Showing that he was liable for any incident to happen where he went. Even though Johnny might have concealed a weapon, he saved Ponyboy's life when one of the Socials tried to drown him before he blacked out. It showed that Johnny was trying to stop the Social and get away from the scene that he did not cause. He and Ponyboy were only trying to walk around the park without trying to cause any trouble. Johnny is innocent due to events that happened, “ ... scared him. … most law-abiding of us, now carried in his back pocket a six-inch switchblade.” (Hinton pdf 30). Therefore it shows that what Bob did to make Johnny scared of his own shadow, take extra precaution. He used his brain to see the possibility that Bob could attack him again. It should not be counted as a murder weapon but as a self-defense as how small Johnny was and how large the chance that Bob might attack him

In Johnny Got His Gun, Trumbo illustrates the relationship between a father and his son as it changes through an internal transition that occurs in the son. The son’s natural and universal transition is conveyed through the nature of the campsite. The fishing rod symbolizes the close relationship between the father and the son, and illustrates how two people can grow apart physically while still preserving their tight bond with each other.

(Hinton 12). Johnny is the most fragile member of the gang, and running away is just a minor example of what he would have done if his friends had not taught him love, or affection, something his parents, and

In the wise words of Charlie Anderson, “[I]f we don’t try, we don’t do. And if we don’t do, why are we here on this Earth?” Charlie Anderson is the protagonist in the movie Shenandoah, who lives with his six sons, Jacob, James, John, Nathan, Henry, and Boy, and his daughter, Jennie. Charlie Anderson is the type of person who responds to everything by trying and giving it his all, but only if it concerns him. The movie takes place during the Civil war, which occurs near their family farm and Charlie’s intent was to stay neutral because he felt that the war did not concern him, until his youngest son, Boy, was mistaken for a union soldier and taken by the confederate army. Charlie ventures off with five of his sons and his daughter, while James and his wife, Ann, and their baby stay back at the house. Along the way, tragedy strikes the family, affecting them in ways that cannot be undone. The protagonist in the novel Johnny Got his Gun, Joe Bonham, was drafted into the war and greatly injured as a result. Joe experiences a loss of his eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and limbs. The only thing that Joe is left with is a working brain and very little ways to communicate with the outside world. As the novel progresses, Joe faces an immense amount of internal conflict and struggles with the effects that war has on him. Although both Charlie and Joe experience the harsh impacts of war, they respond to them in quite different ways.

Everyone has a courageous moment in their life, but Johnny has multiple moments where he shows a true act of courage. The first event that shows that Johnny is courageous is when he saved Ponyboy from the Socs. There has been this rivalry between the Socs and the Greasers (the rich and the poor) which has caused a lot of fights. When Johnny’s best friend Ponyboy and him were in the park they were jumped by Bob and his group of Socs. They were drowning Ponyboy in the fountain and Johnny decided to take a courageous action and stab Bob to save Ponyboy. If it was not for Johnny, Ponyboy would be dead. Johnny knew that stabbing Bob would get him in trouble with the police, but he took the chance. “ You really killed him, huh, Johnny ?...

King Lovell was given due diligence in his corrective action towards his multiple issues and being fired from Patton-Fuller Community Hospital. The issues were explained to King, and he was required to complete additional training to strengthen his nursing skills. King did not demonstrate any compliance with trying to correct the documented issue in his employee evaluation and consequently was fired.

Joe’s understanding of war in Johnny Got His Gun is very similar to Boy’s in the sense that he doesn’t really understand what he would be fighting for in a battle. One example of this is when Joe is at the train station with his family awaiting his send-off to war. During this send off Joe didn’t really question why he was going to war or what he would be doing in war. He went without and hesitation which shows that his

Revolver In the book Revolver, by Marcus Sedgwick, Sig is a 14- year old boy who lives in the Artic Wilderness. He lives with his sister, Anna, his father’s corpse, and his step mother Nayda. A strange man named Wolff comes to the cabin one day to find Sigs fathers gold. Sig doesn’t realize the danger he is in with this man.

“He had had the walker colt. He was holding the big pistol up and pointing at Silva. Silva stopped, and one of the Indians chuckled. Even Silva grinned at the ludicrous sight of the boy holding a pistol nearly as big as himself...” page 66. This shows how rough the wild west is on families. Johnny a young kid pulled a large gun on a group of indians to protect his mother. The indians grabbed her mother and he shot one of them. They backed off and left the family alone. The wild west can make kids grow up faster than they should and become smarter. He also shows how strong he is because he risks his life to save his mother’s.