Johnny Got His Gun: Chapter 1-5

During WW1 Joe gets hit with an artillery shell. The shell completely destroyed him. He has no arms, no legs, and for a matter of speaking no face. All Joe really has is his vital organs, a brain, and his sense of touch. Like I said before he has no face. This means he can't hear, he can't see, he can't taste, he can't smell. Joe is being kept alive by machines and nurses tending to him multiple times a day. He has a machine breathing for him and a machine feeding him. Joe can hardly even move. He talks about drowning in the chapter too. He says that when you're drowning, you're helpless. You freak out before you die because you know that there's no way for you to get out. His situation is just like that, he can't help himself. Joe can't even kill himself if he wanted to. He can't do anything. Everything for Joe is controlled by other people and he has no control over anything but his mind.