Friday, May 23, 2008
Johnny Got His Gun: Chapter 16-17
In chapter 16 Joe is given an intense amount of pain killers. Afterwards he goes into a state of confusion. During the confusion he has a dream about Christ. Joe is sent plummeting through nothing until he hears a woman crying. He then sees Jesus and walks with him. They go to a train station of sorts and sit in an area waiting for the train. While they're there, they see a group of men playing cards. Joe realizes kind of quickly that all these people in this area are waiting to die. He then gets called out in a way by one of the men because, 'He doesn't belong there.' The man says that Joe is not dead so why is he here. Then Joe explains his situation and the men think they're fortunate for being dead. It's astounding to think of someone being in such a horrible place that dead people think they have it better. Joe might as well be dead anyway. I think that's what this dream is saying...Joe was amongst all these dead people. He is on that line of life & death, and he can't do anything about it. If it were me I'd honestly want to be pushed over that edge into death.
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2 comments:
yooo. Nice post. Thats the most sad thing about his situation is that he can't get pushed over that edge and die.
A couple things though..they play cards in the desert but you got the point right that it is better to be dead then to be in his situation. It's really sad, and that he is acctually crying at Christ's feet at the end. It's powerful
Peaceee
While i agree with you in that Joe is in the worst situation anybody could think of, but i feel like you left out the religious meaning of Christ and the connection Joe has with him. Honestly if I were Joe I would also want to be pushed over to being dead rather than alive. It is unimaginable what Joe must have felt or what he was thinking.
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