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The New Day Nurse
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:
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Chapter 18
Quotes
What do you want?
Related Characters:
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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.
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?
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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:
).
Chapter 18
Quotes
What do you want?
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
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.
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?
