Final Blog: pointing the gun...

By the end of the novel Joe is left in the hospital. He is told he cannot leave and be a traveling exhibit like he wanted to. He has nothing left. He will remain in the hospital until his death. Joe comes to the understanding that normal people like himself have to go and fight and be willing to die for their country. He believes that you can't say I would die for my country because you don't know what death is like, and since he is the closest to it he has a right to say that. Joe feels that the leaders who start the war sit back and sends other poeple to fight. The leaders aren't the ones who are fighting and dying, they sit back and watch. Joe does believe in fighting for the country anymore, and raising up arms against someone. But he feels that to stop the fighting we must fight the leaders causing wars and sending us to them. By the end of the book Joe is pointing his gun to ending violence by fighting those who begin and lead wars.