In the first chapter there are many happenings; first, the food rations are described with the account that men get extra food due to heavy losses in regiment. It then goes on to describe how they joined the war and the first to fall of their friends; Behm. What happens next is they go to visit their friend in the hospital; they know that he is going to die but they act like he will not. Muller is truly introduced at this point, and he is shown as a simple but crude person.
Journal Entry
Tuesday,
Today is a fine day, we have eaten like kings, we have decent shelter and friends around us; for that is all man really needs. It is a simple life out here, and if not for the deaths all around us it would be perfect. We have just visited Kemmerich; we all know that he will not survive more than a few days, he does not even know that his leg is gone, it is most often like that. When we visited him we gave him his things, typically Muller was his crude self and almost spilled the fact about the leg, especially when he saw those boots of Kemmerich’. I am going to have to write that letter to his mom now but I am not looking forward to it. I also should write home again sometime, mother worries so much.
Paul
Vocab words-
voracity- desiring or consuming food in great quantities
“In Tjaden this is voracity, in Muller it is foresight” (Remarque 1-2)
queue- to form a line while waiting for something
“At the head of the queue of course were the hungriest” (Remarque 2)
Political Cartoon
Glittering generality is the exaggeration of actual facts. This cartoon is depicting a woman holding in one hand a basket of food and the other a hoe. This cartoon is implying that the war is going to be won because of the food fed to the soldiers.
Reflection
I learned that in war bonds are formed that would never have been formed otherwise, and that war brings out the best in some and the worst in others.
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