Although he survived he writes, "It was not dying: everybody died. It was not dying: we had died before." ... In the last verse of "Losses", he says, "It was not dying- no, not ever dying; But in the night I died I dreamed that I was dead, And the cities said to me: "Why are you dying? We are satisfied if you are"; but why did I die?" ... In the third chapter of his autobiography he records how he is separated from his mother He had no idea what could happen to her and feared that she might die. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I laughed and cried within the first chapter. The entire book makes you think long and hard about life, how precious it is, and how quickly it can be taken from you. We are all given gifts of different kinds in our lives. ... A young healthy five-year-old named Annie senselessly and suddenly dies. ... The first is the little girl Annie, who was born late in the life of her parents, and who died at a very early age due to an illness. ...

• Word Count: 1146
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The most impressive event for me in this book was the in one of the battles which is in chapter 9: Paul separated from his company, and forced to hide in the shell hole. ... But it was too late; the French soldier was dying. ... From this event happened on Paul, we can understand that Paul is a very sensitive, compassionate, and pure-hearted man. ... The book made more sense of the essential of the war, and how the young men had been destroyed in the war. ... Paul was died just at the end of war, just because of the little butterfly. ...

• Word Count: 1152
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Too long. (21)" Partridge went on for about five more minutes about how Quoyle could improve his writing. ... In the beginning, because we have a downtrodden man as the protagonist, it would only make sense that he surrounds himself by people that trod him down more. ... After Petal dies in the car crash, Quoyle needs to take the responsibility to father his children. ... He finally knows how to write and he knows that what Tert Card did was wrong. ... In the first chapter, Proulx compares Quoyle to a rope. ...

• Word Count: 972
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School