Johnny Got His Gun

by

Dalton Trumbo

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The Doctor Character Analysis

After the new day nurse realizes that Joe is trying to communicate using Morse code, she sends for a doctor who knows Morse code. Joe is elated when the doctor comes to speak with him, but his hopes shatter when the doctor denies Joe’s request to leave the hospital—and then gives Joe a morphine injection to silence him.

The Doctor Quotes in Johnny Got His Gun

The Johnny Got His Gun quotes below are all either spoken by The Doctor or refer to The Doctor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
The Horrors of War Theme Icon
).
Chapter 18 Quotes

What do you want?

Related Characters: The Doctor (speaker), Joe
Page Number: 226
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 19 Quotes

Take me into your churches your great towering cathedrals that have to be rebuilt every fifty years because they are destroyed by war. Carry me in my glass box down the aisles where kings and priests and brides and children at their confirmation have gone so many times before to kiss a splinter of wood from a true cross on which was nailed the body of a man who was lucky enough to die.

Related Characters: Joe (speaker), The Doctor
Page Number: 240
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 20 Quotes

Why didn’t they want him? Why were they shutting the lid of the coffin against him? Why didn’t they want him to speak? Why didn’t they want him to be seen? Why didn’t they want him to be free?

Related Characters: Joe (speaker), The New Day Nurse, The Doctor
Page Number: 247
Explanation and Analysis:
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The Doctor Quotes in Johnny Got His Gun

The Johnny Got His Gun quotes below are all either spoken by The Doctor or refer to The Doctor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
The Horrors of War Theme Icon
).
Chapter 18 Quotes

What do you want?

Related Characters: The Doctor (speaker), Joe
Page Number: 226
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 19 Quotes

Take me into your churches your great towering cathedrals that have to be rebuilt every fifty years because they are destroyed by war. Carry me in my glass box down the aisles where kings and priests and brides and children at their confirmation have gone so many times before to kiss a splinter of wood from a true cross on which was nailed the body of a man who was lucky enough to die.

Related Characters: Joe (speaker), The Doctor
Page Number: 240
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 20 Quotes

Why didn’t they want him? Why were they shutting the lid of the coffin against him? Why didn’t they want him to speak? Why didn’t they want him to be seen? Why didn’t they want him to be free?

Related Characters: Joe (speaker), The New Day Nurse, The Doctor
Page Number: 247
Explanation and Analysis: