Johnny Got His Gun

One of the most interesting passages in Johnny Got His Gun to me was probably the passage about Joe's realization that he can no longer tell the difference between sleep and wake. This particularly struck me because I had never thought about not being able to tell the difference between two things that to me, seemed so concrete. Joe seems particularly wise when he realizes that he has to force himself to think very hard about things until he puts himself to sleep.

I can't think if a clever title.

Johnny Got His Gun lacks one element that is so often used when talking about war, god. March Of The Flag proposes the idea that America goes to war to expand, America expands because god wants us to. The lack of god in Johnny Got His Gun isn't something that I personally would have thought about when considering war. Although Joe seems to have a great deal of revelations about his life, no mention of a religion ever comes into play.

America got their gun......?

Johnny Got His Gun shows fairly clearly the idea of war on a much more personal level. The story of Joe slowly learning about his new and bizarre disabilities is not only heartbreaking, but it reveals how individuals are effected by something that is meant to better everyone as a whole. The easy comparison between America The Beautiful and Johnny Got His Gun is the fact that Johnny never seems to fully understand why he went to war, or why anyone else did. Which is exactly what D’Souza claims is wrong with the American view on war.

Mediabastards

Recently in the media there was a story about, well, prom. There is a school in Mississippi in which a female student their wanted to bring her girlfriend. The school found out before hand and tried to fight her being able to bring another girl, but lost. The kicker to the story is, when the school realized they had to allow the two girls to go together, they organized an 'alternate prom' in which they invited nearly the entire school, this 'alternate prom' happened to be on the same night at the actual prom, in which only the two girls and some of the mentally handicapped students attended. There hasn't been any further development in the story due to the fact that the school technically didn't do anything illegal, the 'alternate prom' was organized by 'parents' and not the school,so only certain people being invited was technically not an offense that could be taken anywhere. This article wasn't so much on the idea of gender as it was on the idea of acceptance, there are without a doubt more schools that are prejudice against gay couples, the question comes in when we decide to be tolerant.

Mawige is what bwings us togethwer towday.

Wolfson begging by stating exactly what marriage means is almost essential to the piece, because of the fact tat marriage could have so many definitions, it was important for the author to state which definition of marriage he basing his argument off of. Without knowing which definition of marriage the author was referring to, the writing would end up meaning something different to every reader which would make understanding the piece or having any form of discussion about the reading. Wolfson says that marriage is 'what we use to describe a specific relationship of love and dedication to another person.' I believe that description of marriage is completely true, it doesn't limit marriage to being something religious, or something that is between only an XX and XY chromosomed couple. Wolfson's definition of marriage is an open definition that doesn't limit marriage to something particular.

Surprise, I'm straight !!

Vazquez makes a very stylistic choice to wait to disclose the fact that the two men in the story are straight. Vazques makes the reader believe that the two men are gay, by saying they are in the Castro, and then going on to describe very stereotypically 'gay, 'thin and wiry, a great dancer clad in back denim, earrings dangling from his ear.' Vazquez almost seems to sneakily attack the reader, calling them out for inevitably assuming that the two men were gay. The choice to wait to disclose that information to the reader almost sends them on a guilt trip the assumption of the men being gay, the choice does in fact make the reader think about that fact that they have made an assumption, which does help Vazquez get her point across, that everyone can be affected by assumptions.

Surprise, I'm straight !!