The excessive love of country that drives Germany into war
What is nationalism
100
Kindergarten teachers
Who are the theys in the first stanza of "They Said"?
100
Killed by a sniper in the Civil War
How does the soldier die in "Killed at the Ford"/
100
"Now if we go back we will be weary, broken, burnt out, rootless, and without hope. We will not be able to find our way any more."
What is the Lost Generation?
200
Inherits the boots from Kemmerich
Who is Muller
200
He won't be a forester now
What happens to Kemmerich
200
One of the motifs that unifies the poem "They Said"
What is color? Or what are rewards?
200
"the blood gargling from froth-corrupted lungs"
What is the result of being gassed in "Dulce"?
200
"And that is why they let us down so badly."
What is betrayal?
300
Drill sergeant who overdoes it with his recruits
Who is Himmelstoss?
300
Paul compares this to the war in chapters 11 and 12
What is disease
300
"At the end of every rifle we're the same"
What is the theme of Christmas in the Trenches
300
"Wore our brass stars of unit citation - almost all the way home."
How the reader knows what the soldiers from Vietnam really felt.
300
"They are more to me than life...they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is..."
What is camaraderie?
400
Has to know what happened to her son
Who is Kemmerich's mom
400
Rather short and not very impressive
What is the men's reaction to seeing the Kaiser
400
An average guy, not a deep thinker, had been poor
Who is the narrator in "The Man He Killed"?
400
"Yes, quaint and curious war is..."
What conclusion does the ex-soldier come to in "The Man He Killed"?
400
"If we threw away these rifles and uniforms, you could be my brother, just like Kat and Albert."
What Paul feels: soldiers are the same everywhere.
500
Has a nose for soft jobs and good food
Who is Kat?
500
Die like flies the minute they arrive
What are the new recruits
500
"Old beggars, lame, blind, deaf"
How does Wilfred Owen describe the soldiers?
500
To the distant North, to a sunny street, till it reaches a heart that ceases to beat.
What is the "fatal bullet"?
500
"We see living men with their skulls blown open;we see soldiers run with their two feet cut off, they stagger on their splintered stumps into the next shell hole; we see men without mouths, without jaws, without faces."