Post #2:
Chapters 1-4
1. Paul offers 'a strong, practical sense of esprit de corps which in the field developed into the finest thing that arose out of the war - comradeship" (26-27) - Examine this concept through the first 4 chapters of the novel.
2. Several times in the novel, Paul and his friends mention that the war was brought about by men who are power hungry, and those longing to exert their power. Do you think the combatants on both sides see things the same way? Are all wars brought about by petty, power-hungry nameless men? Can both sides be right about the reason for going to war, for defending their fatherland?
Post #3
Chapter 5
Feb 26-Mar 3
Choose 1 out of the 2 quotations and respond. In your response, find an angle that you find interesting and write. there are lots of sub questions to ask yourself: What thematic elements are pertinent to discuss? Are we seeing something new in the characters and/or their thinking? Can you connect this to other ideas we have been talking about to this point in novel?
1. "We remember mighty little of all that rubbish. Anyway, it has never been the slightest use to us. At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood--nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs" (85).
2. “We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war” (87-8).
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Blog #4
For
this blog post, I want you to think about your reading and our
discussion of Chapter 6 in AQWF. You are
going to be connecting two different text types and comparing them—the novel
and an image. Use ONE of the images
below plus specific text from Chapter 6.
Highlight
similarities between the two, or you
might look at contrasting some
specific elements—images, Paul’s thoughts about the front lines, etc.
Image 1:
Image 2:
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