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Part 1. By Brooke Zappo Billy Brower t.t Ellebly Shyanne Schafer . Summary.

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  1. Part 1 By Brooke Zappo Billy Brower t.t Ellebly Shyanne Schafer

  2. Summary • Himmelstoss goes up to Paul and his soldiers and tries to make peace with them. But Tjaden is still reserved and suspicious. Paul says, “he has had the bounce knocked out of him since he has been in the trenches and wants to get on good terms with us” (137). This shows that Himmelstoss is actually trying to not be rude. When Himmelstoss is the sergeant cook, he half wins over Tjaden when he gives him food. So many men have died all of their comrades have died. It was a terrible experience. Paul says, “the days, the weeks, the years out here shall come back again, and our dead comrades shall then stand up again and march with us, our heads shall be clear, we shall have a purpose, and so we shall march, our dead comrades beside us, the years at the Front behind us:- against whom, against whom” (140).

  3. Theme • One theme could be cheapened value of human life because in part of this excerpt Paul talks about the horrible way they must act while on front line. “Just as we turn into animals when we go up to the line, because that is the only thing that brings us through safely… We can do nothing else, it is a sheer necessity (138).”The soldiers are force to act crazy just to stay alive, so another theme could be animal instinct.

  4. Paul’s Midset • Paul is trying to be happy and have a positive outlook on things. He knows that thinking about all the horrible things that has happen will only bring him down and make him go mad. “Yesterday we were under fire, today we act the fool and go foraging through the countryside, tomorrow we go up to the trenches again. We forget nothing really. But so long as we have to stay here in the field, the front-line days, when they are past, sink down in us like a stone; they are too grievous for us to be able to reflect on them at once. If we did that e should have been destroyed long ago. I soon found out this much:- terror can be endured so long as a man can simply ducks;- but it kills if a man thinks about it” (138).

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