Similarities Between Johnny Got His Gun And Shendoah

Summary: The story is about Lafayette who's relationship with his older brother had changed ever since he came out of a detention home. Charlie blames Lafayette for the death of his mother, Milagro. Thier father, Lafayette had also died before Lafayette was born. Ever since Charlie came out of Rahway the detention home he had gone to for 2 years he had changed for the worse. Now Charlie is a very hostile against his brother Lafayette and wants nothing to do with him, he hangs with the wrong people aswell. Lafayette used

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.

For a short time it seemed as though all was well with the Dalca parents, but Lawrence could not hide his misery for long and it became quite clear that he was not happy in New York. From then on the marrage began to unravel and with each passing year, things in the Dalca home only went from bad to worse. Charlie often witnessed his parents fighting, and it was a rare occasion when they actually got along. Not liking his home life very much, Charlie would spent much of his time outside of the house. He could either be found at a friends or his grandmothers, and some occasions he even took to sleeping outside rather than return

Johnny really never knew what the reason was behind the Civil War. He promised his father he wouldn’t fight in the war because Johnny’s emotions would get the best of him but,Johnny believed that the war was to protect the South and its pride so the confederacy would stand as a nation. As Johnny was teamstering his way in the war by delivering to Richmond he was captured by black Union soldiers. The only one Johnny makes friends with is a soldier named Cush.Cush and Johnny become close but Cush doesn’t know how to read or write because Cush was a runaway slave. Cush shared everything with Johnny like he could not read or write so Johnny taught him.”You done it on purpose”Cush said “Honest,Cush I didn’t.”Yeah you did Johnny. You done it on purpose for you was determined to keep me from finding out the meaning of it-about all men being created equal.”(Collier and Collier pg

In a different fashion, Charlie is also similarly thrusted upon the knowledge that his way of life has been negatively affected by the war. While working on the farm like any other day, the neighbors slave, Gabriel, who was spending time with his son Boy, came with inauspicious news that Boy had been taken by Union soldiers. Here Charlie learns that his son who meant so much to him because he was born the day his wife died, has been taken which puts an immediate stop to his thinking that everything is okay. This further promits him, like Joe, to go and search for Boy who represents the past and normal life that has been taken away by war. Even though Joe and Charlie find out what the war has taken from them in unmistakably different ways, they both begin searching for a part of their previous life that has been forcibly taken away from them because of war.

To begin, three brothers, Lafayette, Charlie, and Ty’ree were orphaned due to the tragic death of their parents. Over the course of two days, Lafayette (the narrator) includes flashbacks to earlier events. After spending over two years in Rahway Home for Boys, a juvenile detention center, Charlie recently returned home. Watching Charlie get ready to leave the apartment with his new friend Aaron, Lafayette laments the changes that have become apparent in his brothers actions since he came home. Once, Charlie was the kind of kid who would stay up late telling stories to his younger brother. And who had cried over a wounded dog, he saw on the street. Now, he barely even looks at or speaks to Lafayette, and he usually denies feeling anything at all. Charlie seems to prefer spending time with tough characters such as Aaron and acting tough in the streets. Lafayette has even taken to

Luis Valdez in the play, “The Buck Private”, argues that conflict does not have to create war, especially when it only ends in lives lost and deep regret. Valdez supports his argument by illustrating a young man’s brief experience with the Vietnam War, from having to leave his family, to his death. Valdez’s purpose is to inform his audience about the dangers of war, so that in the future we might have the ability to deal with conflict properly and without war. Valdez writes in a humorous tone for anyone interested in war protest and dark humor. Johnny happens to be young and seems to contain a few desirable characteristics, which would make him an almost tragic hero.

War covets the aspect of man that is man itself, for it craves to morph them into mere objects and targets. For many soldiers, they succumb to such a fate; being depleted their ability to feel immediate emotion, they develop primitive, animalistic urges of bloodlust during a time of bloodshed. The aspects of war gravely impacts a person, and as such can be seen in O’Flaherty’s character “the sniper,” as well as seen in O’Brien’s character “Private Paul Berlin.” The sniper is a victim to the war’s cold, emotionless embrace. A Republican soldier, he is, divided from his brothers in arms on the other side, the ones called the “Free Staters.” Nonetheless, under the circumstances, they all are pawns to Dublin’s chess table of a civil war, being played at the mercy of the war’s

Luis Valdez in the drama, “Buck Private” demonstrates that the war can affect you in more than one way; it can cause permanent damages. Valdez supports his claim by describing Johnny's story by implementing dramatic irony by having having death as a character. Valdez also explains Johnny’s story by using flashbacks. Johnny believes \that by enlisting in the Vietnam war he’ll automatically gain responsibility and respect. Valdez’s purpose it to persuade young adults to stay away from the battlefield so that they wouldn’t be permanently damaged.

Since he has chosen to go to war at a young age, he sees several things others do not want to see. Since being home, he lives on his own and does not bother looking for a wife because he thinks he is too old. Although he is only 23, he says he becomes old from seeing too much, old from too much life, and old from knowing too much. He is walking with a cane, and he passes blood. Charley does not think he will be alive any longer. In certain ways it makes him sad, but in other ways it makes him happy having to not remember all that he has gone through. He makes himself a picnic near the creek. While watching the water flow, he often wonders whether he should visit the others, and by others Charley means the people who got killed in the war. Charley keeps a weapon he took off of a confederate officer, who has been dead. He comes close to visiting the others because he wants the pain to go away, but now he decides not to leave. He is continuing to think about the pretty things instead of the bad things he thinks about

Both of these stories based on war, both show the loss and the coping that comes with it. The characters loss, coping and way they are affected are very different. In Johnny Got His Gun, Joe has to go through the realization that he had lost all of his limbs and part of his face. He has troubles going through the coping and still to the

Throughout a human’s life, there is a constant struggle to determine one’s values and morals. From an early age, humans are taught what is right and wrong and what to believe in. Yet many do not realize the importance and the impact of not having values. Dalton Trumbo, the author of Johnny Got His Gun, focused on his protagonist's values throughout the novel. Joe Bonham, a young soldier, struggled through the consequences of World War I. Joe received life-changing injuries during World War I that resulted in forced isolation from the rest of the world.

Growing up, many young boys idolized the war heroes in movies such as Saving Private Ryan and American Sniper. However, the glorified heroism that is depicted in these films is far from the reality that is war. A more realistic rendition of war is seen in Tim O’Brien’s short story, The Things They Carried. Throughout the story, O’Brien uses metafictional characters to portray the physical and emotional burdens carried by American soldiers who were forced to conform to societal expectations upon being drafted for the Vietnam War. The literary elements O’Brien uses throughout the story to convey this theme are symbolism, imagery, tone, and inner conflict of the protagonist.

Because Charlie was not aware of the true reality of war, he was not prepared for the possible effects of saving boy. In the end, Charlie realizes in the end through the loss of his two kids that “politicians always talk about the glory of it. And old men talk about the need of it. And the soldiers wanna go home.” Similar to Joe from Johnny Got His Gun, Charlie realizes through the consequences of war that war is really

Charlie and his wife lived in Paris during the twenties, and just as any other night they were out drinking and having fun. They get into a fight witch results in his wife, Helen, kissing another man. Charlie storms home, and an hour later when Helen has stumbled herself home, Charlie locks her out of their apartment and she dies soon after. Charlie has a breakdown and is institutionalized right before he looses all his money in the stock market crash of 1929. As the story opens three years later Charlie is back in Paris, sober, determined to get custody over his daughter, Honoria, who lives with Helens sister, Marion.