Who You Talkin About
The narrator of the nove
Who is Paul Baumer?
"The front is a mysterious whirlpool."
What is a metaphor?
The name Kantorek gave his students to inspire them to go to war.
What is the Iron Youth
“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow."
Loss of Innocence
"This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it."
Intro to the book
The wisest of the soldiers who is good at finding things.
Who is Kat?
"The wind plays with our hair..."
Personification
Propaganda aims to activate strong ___
Emotions
"I remember the awful sights in the hospital: the gas patients who in day-long suffocation cough up their burnt lungs in clots."
Brutality of war/technological advancements of war
"He raises himself on the pillow with his elbows. 'They have amputated my leg.'"
Kemmerich is dying in the hospital. Boots.
The soldiers' cruel commanding officer.
Who is Himmelstoss?
A reference to something outside of the text.
What is an allusion?
Propaganda simplifies _____
Information
"We don't talk much, but I believe we have a more complete communion with one another than even lovers have."
Role of comradery
"The cries continued. It is not men, they could not cry so terribly."
The wounded horses in the battlefield. Men have become desensitized to the wounded men.
The soldier who wet his bed.
Who is Tjaden?
The author's attitude toward the subject of the text.
What is tone?
speakers attempt to convince their audience that they, and their ideas, are “of the people” and “just like you”
What is "plain folks."
“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”
Role of Authority
"Then I notice my bloody hand and suddenly feel nauseated. I take some earth and rub the skin with it; now my hand is muddy and the blood cannot be seen anymore."
Paul has just stabbed the French soldier to death. This is the first time he has killed someone.
The first soldier to die who did not want to go to war in the first place.
Who is Joseph Behm
Putting two things side by side to emphasize their differences.
What is juxtaposition?
a word or phrase used to obliquely describe something unpleasant, impolite, or taboo
What is a euphemism?
"If we were not automata at that moment we would continue lying there, exhausted, and without will."
Dehumanization
"In the darkness one sees their forms move like sick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their face against it; their fingers hook round the mesh."
Paul is at training camp next to the Russian prison. Here he ponders how arbitrary borders and enemies are.