Vocab 1
This means self-satisfyingly dumb or stupid.
What is "fatuous"?
Young men were told to join the war because it was this type of duty.
This was the most important quality to the army.
What is "obedience," or following orders?
Katczinsky has a gift for finding this.
What is "food"?
This means you are only concerned with surface-level things, like appearances.
What is "superficial"?
This is what you get when you are doing something wrong.
What is "criticism"?
The narrator and his school friends are all this age.
What is "19"?
This was Himmelstoss' job before the war.
What is a mailman or postman?
This was Tjaden's job before the war.
What is a locksmith?
What is "alliance"?
What is "righteous"?
The first of their class to die, Joseph Behm, had this happen to him.
What is he was shot in the eye and left behind to die?
This is why Kemmerich's death was so difficult for Paul.
What is because they had grown up together, and Paul had promised his mother to watch out for him?
Before the war, Paul's hobby was this.
What is writing poetry?
This is a choice that involves a threat of terrible consequences.
What is "ultimatum"?
This word means making fun of someone or insulting them.
What is "derision"?
Kemmerich has something that Muller wants badly.
What are leather boots?
This is the best thing to result from the war, according to Paul.
What is "comradeship"?
What is the phrase Kantorek uses to to describe the young people?
What is the Iron Youth?
This is a hole or pit too large to be measured.
What is "abyss"?
This means to shun people or purposely exclude them.
What is "ostracize"?
Kemmerich's stolen watch represents this.
What is stolen time/stolen life?
What is a "wasteland"?
There is so much food for the second company at the beginning of the book because of this.
Half the men died in an airstrike.