joe's thoughts

Joe’s ability to communicate with others around him has actually frustrated him more than it has helped him. His request to be put in the outside world has been crushed and the doctors are against such thing. Joe realizes that these people are afraid. They are afraid of letting people see the future. The future is war, and the people tending to Joe know that war will break out again. When it does the nation will need soldiers, and Joe being seen by the people of the world will result in no one enlisting in the military. Without soldiers our country can not defend itself. At the end Joe is “pointing” the gun in his sedated sleep, because he is getting back at the masters of war. When the common man has a gun put in his hand, he will point at the leaders and he will live.