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Joe Bonham, a young American soldier serving in World War I, awakens in a hospital bed after being caught in the blast of an exploding artillery shell.
Joe Bonham, un joven soldado que sirve al ejército estadounidense en la Primera Guerra Mundial, se despierta en la cama de un hospital después de haber sido alcanzado por la explosión de un obús.
Joe Bonham is the narrator and protagonist of Johnny Got His Gun. The novel takes place after Joe has been severely injured in World War I. Joe grew up in a working class household in Shale City, Colorado in the beginning of the century.
Joe Bonham is a young man originally from Shale City, Colorado. He gets drafted to fight in Europe during World War I and ends up gravely injured in an artillery shell explosion and hospitalized. The…
30 de oct. de 2023 · ‘Johnny cogió su fusil’ relata la terrorífica experiencia de Joe Bonham, soldado combatiente en la I Guerra Mundial que prácticamente en los últimos días de las operaciones militares resulta gravemente herido en un ataque enemigo por un proyectil de artillería y queda sin piernas, brazos, ojos, oídos, boca ni nariz.
Johnny Got His Gun was first published on 3 September 1939, two days after Germany invaded Poland, and is about a 20-year-old American infantryman Joe Bonham who suffers a direct hit from a German shell in the last days of the Great War. Unsurprisingly, its powerful anti-war message also had a profound effect on Americans during the Vietnam era.
Joe is the unfortunate soul who gets called to war and loses the one-in-a-million lottery of getting blown to a stump and surviving. The narrative is made up of his memories and his ruminations on war in the aftermath of his condition—and of him trying to make the world acknowledge his existence.
