"Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo: The Conflict of Life and Death

The Conflict of Life and Death <Tab/>"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." Dwight D. Eisenhower, former General and President of the United States of America, had the right to say this, faced with the horrors of war throughout his career. Eisenhower knew the ferocity of war inside and out, from the vantage …

…Overall, Trumbo's use of syntax, apostrophes and symbolism truly helped in conveying his message. His antiwar sentiment grew much stronger with the anylzation of symbolism and writing techniques. Trumbo, through the use of the horribly disfigured and mutilated Joe, shows how ugly war can get and the importance of preventing it in the future. By allowing the reader to see into Joe's pathetic existence, he acquires a unappreciative new attitude towards the horrors of war.