Please respond to the following prompts in complete sentences. Use quotes when stipulated.
1.Paul’s attitude toward the enemy in this section is best described as one of _________________.
2. How would you describe the diction and style of this section of text? Use quotes as support.
3. It can be inferred by Paul’s behavior toward the soldier that __________________.
4. What atmosphere or mood is established on pg. 223?
5. What can we infer from the 5th paragraph on pg. 239? Use quotes as support.
6. What does the author want to encourage in the reader?
7. What ambiguity does the speaker develop in the 3rd paragraph on pg. 216?
8. Why is the following quote remarkable? Think of word play.
“Burning houses stand out like torches against the night. Shells lumber across and crash down. Munition columns tear along the street” (237).
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ReplyDeletePaul’s attitude toward the enemy in this section is best described as one of guilt.
ReplyDeleteThis text is very simple and straight-forward, "A screech, a knee bend, and away they race over the fifty yards of open country"(236)
It can be inferred by Paul’s behavior toward the soldier that he feels much remorse for what he has done and he realizes that the enemy is, in fact, humans just like him.
This page is Paul expressing his regret and realizing that the enemy is like him, that they have been forced, just as he has, to join the war. This page is very gloomy and depressing and expresses Paul's mental confusion about his situation.
This paragraph represent the effect of the war on everyone, not only the soldiers themselves. This war takes a toll on the civilians, "Their faces full of greif, despair, haste, and resignation."(239)
The author is trying to show the reader the horrors of war and create a feeling of sympathy for those that are effected by it.
This paragraph focuses on Paul's mind and not the exact facts of the situation. This creates a sense os confusion in the reader as to what exactly happened.
This quote represents the destruction of the war, by personifying the methods of destruction and the effects.
1.Paul’s attitude toward the enemy in this section is best described as one of empathy because Paul tries to help the French soldier because Paul feels that the man is very similar to him and belong to the same kind.
ReplyDelete2. This might not be a major style in this chapter but I noticed that there are words being repeated like “Now we must wait, wait” (220) “be a printer, printer” (225). It ctached my attention because the style was being used many times in the chapter. I think it’s like an echo effect.
3. It can be inferred by Paul’s behavior toward the soldier that there’s really no friend or enemy when someone needs help. I’m pretty sure that if Paul were the injured one, the French soldiers would have helped him, because Paul said the man is the same kind. Both soldiers don’t know each other and they are not the ones having personal conflict between them, so there’s no point in trying to kill each other unless one side it trying to harm the other.
The atmousphere is very quiet. I imagien something similar in the film about Private Ryan, when the soldier only hear his heart beat and no other noises.
We can infer that civillians are also losing their lives and homes and that despare makes them “all silent as they pass” the soldiers by.
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The story starts to protest about war more obviously. Until this chapter, the feeling towards war was very vague and weak but now I can tell that the author’s trying to tell me that war has not benefits to anyone.
He indirectly talks about having to kill someone. Because if I read the other paragraphs after this, it says about him holding a knife and killing a man. The sticky hand means his hands are covered with blood.
8. Why is the following quote remarkable? Think of word play.
“Burning houses stand out like torches against the night. Shellslumber across and crash down. Munition columns tear along the street” (237).
The author is using anti thesis saying shells lumber when shells fall fast and munition columns tear which indicates the fast motion.
1. It is best described as one of regret and sympathy for the soldier.
ReplyDelete2. He uses simple and insightful language that develops Paul's character.
"You've been lucky', whispers Kropp to me before we drop off to sleep, 'they say we are going to Russia" (Remarque 201).
3. He feels compassion and empathy for the dying soldier. He also invisioned what his life would be like if he hadn't stabbed him.
4. The mood becomes contradicting to the rest of the chapters prior. Paul shows confusion and rifts in his ego and cannot establish a proper feeling to express for the soldier.
5. This paragraph shows the long reaching and long term effects of war on the people involved. "A few carry miserable dolls. All are silent as they pass us by" (Remarque 239).
6 The feeling he is trying to establish is anti-war propaganda.
7. This chapter is introverted and deals more with Paul's mental state rather than the dying solider. Although he is the cause of Paul's distress, Paul's mind is the actual focus.
8. This quote displays imagery and apostrphe (?) while still using simple language.
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