Friday, May 8, 2009

Johnny Got His Gun 2

Joe remembers working at the bakery because he just realized he lost his legs, and he remembers walking around the bakery and walking too the bakery, and at the time he never realized the greatness of walking and legs, but now since he doesn't have legs, he is remembering all of the times he used to use them in great quantities and not think anything of it. He then starts to think about the bakery more, and he remembers Jose. He admires Jose because Jose comes and he listens one time and is able to do all of the work that all of the other mission people do but ten times better. He admires Jose because he comes to the Mission with a goal to make it to Hollywood, and while he is their he tries hard to obtain that goal. Also, most people that go to the mission make up excuses for why they are at the mission. Their stories are always made up of a lie about when they had moeny and they had to get away from it for one reason or another. Because everyone realized they all made op stories, everyone always listened and then forgot about it, and they never questioned them about their stories. When Jose came to the mission, he had a story about a girl who had lots of money who was obsessed with him and because he didn't love her he had to get away. Like al of the other stories, the people at the mission didn't believe him, but they just acceptedit and went on. This was the case until Jose got a letter from the girl, and he didn't know what to do. The people were all extremely jealous that Jose had both the job offer at Hollywood and the true story of why he ran away.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Abbey,

You are definitely correct in that Joe realized he took having legs for granted because he didn't realize how much he missed it until he had lost it. You did a good job adding many examples to make your point that Jose was an honest person who had goals that he tried to reach for. He was indescribably different than all the other Mission guys and that's why Joe liked him.