After that battle the men count goes from 80 to 32. ... Paul is given 17 days of leave from the Army to go home and visit his family. ... At the end of his visit, he goes to train near a Russian prison. ... Paul returns and goes to battle. ... Paul goes through surgery and Kropp has his leg amputated. ...
When he first enters the story Paul is very enthusiastic about going to the war. ... Kropp's leg soon had to be amputated at the thigh. After a few more weeks Paul and Kropp parted, Paul going to war and Kropp going home. ... When Kropp and Paul were injured and sent to a hospital then his leg was amputated. ... As the war goes on Paul and his friends become weary, wore out, even matured too soon. ...
Kemmerich is the second one of the boys to die; his leg is amputated prior to his death. ... Baumer is soon granted a leave to go home, even though he feels guilty and doesn't want to leave. ... Baumer fully recovers, but Kropp has to have his leg amputated. ...
It was his idea, so "naturally, Finny was going to be the first to try" (7) the jump. ... Because of the jouncing of the limb, Finny falls hard to the ground and breaks his leg, his "first clumsy action" (52) ever. ... It is symbolic that after Finny breaks his leg the first time, Gene "becomes" Finny by putting on his pink shirt - Phineas" trademark of his rebellious character. ...
"Just as we turn into animals when we go up to the line so we turn into wags and loafers when we are resting . ... Kemmerich is dead, Haie Westhus is dying Martens has no legs anymore, Meyer is dead, Max is dead, Beyer is dead, Hammerling is dead it is a damnable business, but what has it to do with us now "we live."" ...
Friends and family leave to go to America, but the author's mother doesn't want to go. ... The father leaves to go into hiding. ... The girls are concerned that the lack of exercise will make their legs wobble. ... The visit goes very well. ... The Oostervelds's home are going to be search by the Germans. ...
Friends and family leave to go to America, but the author's mother doesn't want to go. ... The father leaves to go into hiding. ... The girls are concerned that the lack of exercise will make their legs wobble. ... The visit goes very well. ... The Oostervelds's home are going to be search by the Germans. ...
On the date of July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway, a now known brilliant writer, was born. Hemingway was conceivably the only writer to achieve the combination of international celebrity and literary stature in the twentieth century. Hemingway was brought up in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, close t...
How many arms, legs, ears, noses, mouths, faces, penises they've lost? ... Dalton Trumbo talks about a twenty-year old boy lying in bed without arms, legs, a nose, a mouth, eyes, or ears. ... They would go out and have fun and celebrate it by having parties and picnics. ...
Before the fear and the reality of war sets in on the young soldiers they are enthusiastic and happy about going off to war. ... Kemmerich is dead, Haie Westhus is dying Martens has no legs anymore, Meyer is dead, Max is dead, Beyer is dead, Hammerling is dead it is a dammable business, but what has it to do with us now - we live. (124-125 All Quiet on the Western Front) This quotation also shows how the narrator is becoming more and more desensitized by the war. ... In Catch 22 Yossarian goes AWOL meaning he simply runs away. ... The catch 22 in the novel refers to that if someone is to be...
One of the horses falls and badly breaks a leg; this time Ross allows his responsibilities to take charge. ... I know that you're going to go away and be a soldier. Well - you can go to hell. ... The fact that World War One was going on at the same time as the life of Robert Ross seems to play little more role to the book than to contribute to the darkness of the theme. ...
They go to training for a few weeks and live life on the front they soon realize it is not all it was supposed to be. They go through things such as losing lives to losing legs. ... Early on in the story the characters were excited about going to war. ...
"The brown earth, the torn, blasted earth with the convulsed and dead soldiers, who lie here-it can't be helped-who cry and clutch at our legs as we spring away over them." ... Kat and Detering and Haie can go back to their jobs because they had them already. ... But, when Paul goes back home on leave, he soon feels out of place, and has none of the same interests as before the war. ...
They saw men with their intestines hanging out of their bodies; with legs so maimed they required amputation. ... When the kids went back to school the women would clean all the dishes, and go back to bed until 3:00 P.M., when the children came home from school. ...
The Nicholas and Alexandra Summary Nicholas and Alexandra, both Czar and Czarina of Russia, had ups and downs throughout their reign. Their people were in revolt because the Czar would not give them what they wanted. They wanted food, peace, and money. The Czar just could not give them that, and a...
America simply cannot support that regime, so before any economic aid could be brought to the region, the Taliban would have to go. ... The mice can go places the elephant simply can't, and hide where the elephant can't reach. ... It needs to be something that will kick the legs of support out from underneath Bin Laden, as well as future leaders in that region. ... That's going to be tough to do in a land where nobody has a television or radio. ...
Of course they're "longing to go out again,"" These boys with old scared faces, learning to walk. ... This disease will cause the flesh to rot until the surgeon removes the infected, gangrenous foot in order to save the leg. ... He reported seeing "soldiers in filthy tatters, their feet bound with rags "soldiers limping, staggering on crutches, without arms, without legs, discharged from the overcrowded hospitals [where they were six to ten to a room] still blue and shaking from typhus- (Gilbert 111). ...
The flaw being that if the one in charge relies on the people of the colony to do the work, it has the potential to loose all the benefits if the enslaved should stop, taking the legs right out from under the chair in which they sit so high. ... Both sides do not want either one to gain control over the other, forcing it to go against itself. ...
He brings to life the harsh trench-warfare scene and many times states that no man should ever have to go through that. ... This is a very common misconception that Remarque attempts to rid the reader of very early when in the first chapter, Pauls good friend Kemmerich has his leg amputated from a bullet and then dies a painfully slow death with Paul at his side. ...
Trenches are long, narrow ditches that are used in war by the soldiers to attack and defend against their enemies. There are trenches on the two sides and no man's land with a barbwire in the middle. Most of us think of the World War 1 in terms of life and death in the trenches but only a relatively...
After moving to New York, Teddy decided to go into the field of politics. ... He would go undercover throughout the streets catching policemen who were not doing their job. ... Roosevelt would go on to file suit against more than 40 major corporations during his presidency, even though he lost most cases. ...
After moving to New York, Teddy decided to go into the field of politics. ... He would go undercover throughout the streets catching policemen who were not doing their job. ... Roosevelt would go on to file suit against more than 40 major corporations during his presidency, even though he lost most cases. ...
