JOHNNY POINT YOUR GUN

At the end of the novel, Joe realizes that the reason the doctors have sedated him with the dope is because they don't want to help him. They don't care if they can communicate with him or that he's truly amazing because they are more concerned with their wars. They believe if Joe is allowed to make contact in the world with other people, then they would know the true horrors of war. His testimony would touch others and make them question their curiosity of why this man is this way, and is this really the conscience of war. Of course they government and all the promoters and drafters of war wouldn't like that, and they would begin to refuse to go to war. And of course you need a lot of men to go to war. I think that at the end of the novel Joe also points out that the human race is a peaceful race and they want to live. But they will take up arms and "point the gun" if they have to. But it won't be for a silly war that all the promoters and drafters had made them be involved in before, but a war against those who are doing the promoting and drafting. They will do this because they want to maintain life and peace and they will go to any cost because they will always fight for life.

Yes, I agree with Joe's desires. When he goes on the rant at the end of the book about how he wants to tell the church, school children, working men, women in schools, and the men in congress about himself and what he's been through, if i was in the same position, I would want the same thing too. Like i've said in previous blogs, Joe is like amazing and I would have already gone crazy. I wouldn't be able to be absolutely alone in the world that long without any source of communication, and not go crazy. I agree with Joe's desire when he says that he doesn't even have to tell people about what he's been through and showcase himself, but that he just wants the comfort of knowing he doesn't have to be alone the rest of his life, locked up in his own body, and being denied the right to keep in touch with other people and be able to feel actual sunshine on the small amount of skin he has. If I was in a similar situation, of course, without a doubt in my mind would i want the comforts of people around. I would ever want to be by myself for that long. I can't really even imagine what it would be like to be in that situation because it's hard to imagine not being able to go without body parts and functions that I am so used to having.