Johnny Got His Gun Blog 2

• Blog –Why does Joe remember working at the bakery? What does he admire about Jose?

Joe, once again has drifted into unconsciousness. Jose was unlike the other guy from the Mission. He wasn’t confused he listened around quietly. “There was something about him that told you he was a little different from the other guys or that maybe he had been a little luckier than the rest.” (Pg. 66) Jose is an honest man. However, something astonishing happened to Jose a few days after Jody Simmons gave him a job at the bakery. Jose received a job working at a movie studio. While all the guys at the bakery were excited, Jose was worried. He didn’t want to let down Jody Simmons; after all, he was the one who gave him this job. “That made him indebted to Jody Simmons no? Very well. He was indebted to Jody Simmons and now he has found a job.” (Pg. 71) Jose was now worried about how he would get out of his current job without making Jody Simmons upset. This shows us how Jose is a compassionate character. The guys working at the bakery got excited when Jose asked them how to get out of his current job. Of course, they too wanted a better job so they had been thinking about this as long as they had worked there. Jose is not a violent person; he thinks “tipping pies” is considered violence. However, the pies are what allow him to move from his current job at the bakery to his new job at the studio. He even felt sorry that he had spilled the pies that he bought Jody Simmons flowers and asked the guys if he could pay for the pies he ruined. Jose must be an important person seeing that Joe’s memory of him spans the entire chapter.