Joe Bonham: A Short Story
“Help me. I can’t lie here forever [...]”(64) Joe Bonham was bombarded. He was bombarded by a bomb. That bomb took his arms and legs. It cost him his eyes and face. It eventually made him blind and deaf. The enemy bomb left him tapping for his life. Joe was a little guy who was pushed into war and it was that little guy that suffered the most. He had a family who loved him and a girl that his world revolved around. But after that bomb, he had nothing.
After all the initial excitement, Joe found himself to be a torso and a brain. His brain was left in a deformed, eyeless, and deaf head,but it was still full of thoughts. “Inside his skull there was a normal man with arms and legs and everything that goes with them.” (181) Every waking day he
After all the initial excitement, Joe found himself to be a torso and a brain. His brain was left in a deformed, eyeless, and deaf head,but it was still full of thoughts. “Inside his skull there was a normal man with arms and legs and everything that goes with them.” (181) Every waking day he