In the short passage from Dalton Trumbo’s novel Johnny Got His Gun, Trumbo uses three key techniques to characterize the relationship between the young man and his father. The use of point of view, details such as; symbolism, and the sentence structure of the novel, help conclude that the son and the father have a close relationship. The point of view of this novel helps characterize the son and father’s relationship. The novel was written through the son’s point of view becoming 3rd person limited, but there are parts in the novel where Trumbo revels the dad’s words. In line 20 Trumbo says, “His father had always preferred his company of that of men and he had always preferred his company to him.” Justifying that the son and father favorite