Friday, May 23, 2008
Johnny Got His Gun: Chapter 13-15
After Joe tried to communicate through time, he realizes it's not working as well as he wanted. Then he remembers about morse code. You can speak to people through a series of clicks and holds. During this chapter a bunch of army generals go to visit him and deliver medals to him. While they're there, Joe tries to get their attention by morse code. Since he can only use his head, the nurses think something's wrong. They check all his monitors and try different things to get him to stop but nothing seems to work. No one realizes that he's trying to talk to them and eventually the nurse decides that he is 'sexually frustrated.' She makes the decision to help him release the frustration and hopefully make him feel better. Although Joe appreciates what she was trying to do, he gets really upset that he is seen as an animal to the people around him. Joe's tapping is eventually recognized, which helps out his situation greatly.
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What you have said is completely true but I feel like you did not talk about how this helps him to reconnect to society in a different way. I also wish you would have talked about how the need to communicate to the people around him became more important to him then keeping track of time. The need to be heard was greater then simply being able to just tell time.
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