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• 15 May 07
  

  Clay Burell

  
  In the novel, something grim was “[s]tacked up against [the school-house’s] longer side [, it was] yellow, unpolished, brand-new coffins. They smell[ed] of resin and pine, and the forest. There [were] at least a hundred of them (90) . . . [t]he coff

• 14 May 07
  

  reallyclean
  • In the novel, something grim was “[s]tacked up against [the school-house’s] longer side [, it was] yellow, unpolished, brand-new coffins. They smell[ed] of resin and pine, and the forest. There [were] at least a hundred of them (90) . . . [t]he coffins are . . . for [the soldiers]” (100).
  • “we run, we throw, we shoot, we kill”
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    • When Paul explains what it feels like to run back leaving his dead friend, Muller, he used absurdity. The real feeling that Paul might have was being frustrated by his friend’s death. But “white clouds suddenly [came] into [his] head” (33),
    • using great metaphors
    • According to the narrator, the head “tries to raise itself, for a moment the groaning becomes louder, the [dying man’s] forehead sinks back upon his arm” (218).
    • They’re just so young and pure. All they are interested in are “a few hobbies, and [their] school.” However, the war has swept them away “[a]nd of this nothing remains.”
    • This quote in chapter four is when Paul and his fellow troops go on a mission as they “marched up, moody or good-tempered soldiers . . . [and] become on the instant human animals” (56).

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      1. On page 108, Paul talks about their need for for food and how it does not satisfy them. He shows this by “pull[ing] in [their] belts tighter and chew every mouthful three times as long. Still the food does not last out; we are damnably hungry. I take out a scrap of bread, eat the white and put the crust back in my knapsack; from time to time I nibble at it” (108).

      
      

      2. This passage to me is very interesting. It’s different than the world we live in today. Today, we value things such as money and jewelry when if you you look at it, it’s practically useless. In war, soldiers behave like real people, like a Houyhnhnm. They treasure things such as food and cigarettes. I think the cigarettes resemble things such as interactive things.

    • hrough. (pg.12-13)

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      “What use is it to him now that he was such as good mathematician at school (284)”

      
      

      This quote was written when one of Paul’s comrade, Leer, falls. Leer’s death scene is full of emotion, and this sentence is the last of the paragraph. This sentence alone proves a lot of war, that warfare can take anything a man possesses, by an ungrateful death.

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