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| Name: |
Dalton Trumbo | | Variant Name: |
James Dalton Trumbo | | Birth Date: |
December 5, 1905 | | Death Date: |
September 10, 1976 | | Place of Birth: |
Montrose, Colorado, United States | | Place of Death: |
Los Angeles, California, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
screenwriter, writer |
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 Biography of Dalton Trumbo
3239 words, approx. 10.8 pages
 During his lifetime, Dalton Trumbo achieved almost everything a screenwriter could hope for. Trumbo won an Academy Award and a national book award. Twice he was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter. Blacklisted in the 1940s and 1950s, he became the firs... summary from source:
 Biography of Dalton Trumbo
1946 words, approx. 6.5 pages
Though he experienced success as a novelist and a screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) is best known as a member of a group he would have preferred never existed-the "Hollywood Ten." After refusing to cooperate during the House Committee on Un-America...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Johnny Got His Gun Information
832 words, approx. 3 pages
 Johnny Got His Gun Author Dalton Trumbo Language English Publisher Publication date 1939 Media type Print ( Hardback & Paperback ) ISBN ISBN 9780806512815 Johnny Got His Gun is a novel written in 1938 (published 1939) by American novelist and...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Ben Ray Redman
372 words, approx. 1 pages
["Johnny Got His Gun"] is one of the most horrifying books ever written…. You have heard of the "basket cases" that are a byproduct of war. Perhaps you have seen one, and if you have you have almost certainly asked yourself, as you looked at the armless, legless object: What is it thinking and feeling? How can it go on living? The obvious answer to the second question is that a basket case has no power of self-destruction. The answer to the first question is the story of &... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Harold Strauss
316 words, approx. 1 pages
["Johnny Got His Gun"] is a tour de force which derives its intense but morbid interest not from any of the common allurements of fiction, but from the unraveling of an unusual physical and psychological puzzle. The solution is one of considerable brilliance and probability, and it holds the reader engrossed. This view of his book may surprise Mr. Trumbo, for there is evidence that he intended the novel as a passionate jeremiad against war, and as a dramatization of the sufferings that must co... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Luella Creighton
279 words, approx. 1 pages
["Johnny Got His Gun"] is a fierce, brave and extraordinary novel. The author is a young Virginian who has drawn on his own varied experience of living as the back drop for the breathless silent statement of the mind and memory of Joe Bonham. The ebb and flow of consciousness in the mind of Joe Bonham makes up the book. It is a simple, direct and terrible story, in the telling. Joe, small town American, was wounded and mutilated beyond belief, in the war of 1914–18, but yet continued to...
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 Essay Grade: 92%Johnny Got His Gun
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Essay provides a chapter by chapter analysis of the book "Johnny Got His Gun." summary from source:
Essay Grade: 88%Antiwar Themes in "Johnny Got His Gun"
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"Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo is a story about a man who loses all his limbs, hearing and sight in a war. The devastation of the character of Joe Bonham and the horrors of war make this an antiwar piece of literaure. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 88%
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Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo | |
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About 115 pages (34,531 words) in 11 products |
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