Journal #1
“The student of Talmud, the children that I was, had been consumed into the flames.”(pg 34)
This is a short but simple quote from Eli. As he throws all of his clothes except for his belt and shoes into the fire he knows that he has a new life. He is now forgetting and loosing his childhood in Talmud. His pride and dignity and everything that made him happy has now burst into raging flames, and he reminisces on his childhood that is now gone. It also sounds like when he says “The child he was had been consumed into the flames” is also an indicator that he is being mature about the situation, and he is acting the age that he told the SS officer, 18.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Monday, March 12, 2007
Reflection
Reflection
All Quiet on the Western FrontEnrich Maria Remarque
All quiet on the western front was a great book with a slow start. In the begging I could not stand this book. Although, as they went from harmless and innocent schoolboys to killing soldiers the book was now more interesting. It was great how Remarque gave us specific details about the war. And how he built relationships with Paul and his real close friends from high school. Remarque is a great author but a few things that he could have done better was in the begging he should have grabbed our attention as the reader, instead of starting in a slow and boring place like the cafeteria it should have been on the battle field. Also as I was reading Connors blog I agree with him when he said the book had a lot of characters but they were poorly developed. As the book went on I really enjoyed it and its graphic war scenes. Would I recommend this book? Of course I would, but I would tell the person the beginning is an extremely slow beginning.
All Quiet on the Western FrontEnrich Maria Remarque
All quiet on the western front was a great book with a slow start. In the begging I could not stand this book. Although, as they went from harmless and innocent schoolboys to killing soldiers the book was now more interesting. It was great how Remarque gave us specific details about the war. And how he built relationships with Paul and his real close friends from high school. Remarque is a great author but a few things that he could have done better was in the begging he should have grabbed our attention as the reader, instead of starting in a slow and boring place like the cafeteria it should have been on the battle field. Also as I was reading Connors blog I agree with him when he said the book had a lot of characters but they were poorly developed. As the book went on I really enjoyed it and its graphic war scenes. Would I recommend this book? Of course I would, but I would tell the person the beginning is an extremely slow beginning.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
the first bomb!
Dialectic Journal 2/15
“The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer. We believe in the war.”
1. This quote symbolizes that war is now a reality; this is the shaping of the “human animals”. This is the part that they are now realizing age is not important. Their young lives as school boys and friends are now over and it’s only a memory. Now they’re reminiscing on the good times they shared in school with friends and girls. And just like that it all vanished now the only thing they no is war kill or get killed.
2. Their lives are now are based and focused on the war. Is this rite? Of course not, these young men have a lot more to live for then a war. They were on the rite path they went to school and they had a future. Their idiotic teacher persuaded them into making the biggest mistake of their lives. Not only does the war isolate you from the real society, and take away your friends and love ones it also takes away many of their rights. This interest me because its awful how there government knows that this is a problem and their killing off a generation, but they still insist on fighting this war.
“The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer. We believe in the war.”
1. This quote symbolizes that war is now a reality; this is the shaping of the “human animals”. This is the part that they are now realizing age is not important. Their young lives as school boys and friends are now over and it’s only a memory. Now they’re reminiscing on the good times they shared in school with friends and girls. And just like that it all vanished now the only thing they no is war kill or get killed.
2. Their lives are now are based and focused on the war. Is this rite? Of course not, these young men have a lot more to live for then a war. They were on the rite path they went to school and they had a future. Their idiotic teacher persuaded them into making the biggest mistake of their lives. Not only does the war isolate you from the real society, and take away your friends and love ones it also takes away many of their rights. This interest me because its awful how there government knows that this is a problem and their killing off a generation, but they still insist on fighting this war.
"Human Animals"
Thursday, February 8, 2007
All Quiet On the Western Front 1-4
"At the sound of the first droning of the shells we rush back, in one part of our being, a thousand years. By the animal instinct that is awakened in us we are led and protected. It is not conscious; it is far quicker, much more sure, less fallible, than consciousness. . . . It is this other, this second sight in us, that has thrown us to the ground and saved us, without our knowing how. . . . We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers—we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals."
Why would Paul characterize himself and his comrades as "human animals"?
Your task: Discuss the meaning of this quotation and the experiences the boys are enduring internally. In addition to your posting, comment on one other student's post.
This is a very strong quote that has obvious meaning to me. When Paul says, "At the sound of the first droning of the shells we rush back, in one part of our being, a thousand years. By the animal instinct that is awakened in us we are led and protected. “At the sound of the first droning of the shells we rush back, in one part of our being, a thousand years. By the animal instinct that is awakened in us we are led and protected. This segment from Paul’s quote is already giving the meaning away. It’s stating that when Paul and his comrades entered into the war and saw all of the blood being shed, they thought kill or be killed. Basically they lost the mentality of humans gained the mentality of animals. And that’s were the saying of “human animals” comes into play, by them being humans with the mindset of animals. When looking at this situation you would think how could they kill other human beings with no hesitation or no remorse? As soon as they entered the war they were trained like animals and they killed like animals. There once innocents is now lost in the replace of the brutal, violent, and disturbing animals that they have now become. They been dehumanized so bad that now there acting the same way towards there friends. Their dear friend Franz Kemmerich is a victim of their horrific behavior. While he is laying on his deathbed Paul and his friends can only think about taking his yellow leather boots, so they stick around and wait for him to die and they take his boots. They were once friends but now Franz was just a young man with a nice pair of boots that the “human animals” used him for.
All Quiet On the Western Front 1-4
"At the sound of the first droning of the shells we rush back, in one part of our being, a thousand years. By the animal instinct that is awakened in us we are led and protected. It is not conscious; it is far quicker, much more sure, less fallible, than consciousness. . . . It is this other, this second sight in us, that has thrown us to the ground and saved us, without our knowing how. . . . We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers—we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals."
Why would Paul characterize himself and his comrades as "human animals"?
Your task: Discuss the meaning of this quotation and the experiences the boys are enduring internally. In addition to your posting, comment on one other student's post.
This is a very strong quote that has obvious meaning to me. When Paul says, "At the sound of the first droning of the shells we rush back, in one part of our being, a thousand years. By the animal instinct that is awakened in us we are led and protected. “At the sound of the first droning of the shells we rush back, in one part of our being, a thousand years. By the animal instinct that is awakened in us we are led and protected. This segment from Paul’s quote is already giving the meaning away. It’s stating that when Paul and his comrades entered into the war and saw all of the blood being shed, they thought kill or be killed. Basically they lost the mentality of humans gained the mentality of animals. And that’s were the saying of “human animals” comes into play, by them being humans with the mindset of animals. When looking at this situation you would think how could they kill other human beings with no hesitation or no remorse? As soon as they entered the war they were trained like animals and they killed like animals. There once innocents is now lost in the replace of the brutal, violent, and disturbing animals that they have now become. They been dehumanized so bad that now there acting the same way towards there friends. Their dear friend Franz Kemmerich is a victim of their horrific behavior. While he is laying on his deathbed Paul and his friends can only think about taking his yellow leather boots, so they stick around and wait for him to die and they take his boots. They were once friends but now Franz was just a young man with a nice pair of boots that the “human animals” used him for.
Thursday, March 1, 2007
our class is the total opposite
Nelson made a really interesting comment on his blog. He wrote... "Today, during class we had a class discussion about All Quiet on the Western Front and war in general. We talked about different aspects of war, we talked about WWI, WWII, Desert Storm, and wars in general. After the discussion I came to the computer to write my reflection (about a subject that I already forgot) and Lucien told me that he was pretty annoyed about the fact that everytime we talk about war it goes back to past crimes and leaders. He told me that he was pretty annoyed about us not talking about wars NOW; it always goes back to Alexander, it always goes back to Hitler; WWI. Me, I believe he is right in the sense that war is NOT a thing of the past. War is currently waged in the Middle East, and in Africa, but for some reason we talk about Hitler and not Bush (or the US senate for that matter). We talk about the Holocaust and not Darfur, and even though the Holocaust was bigger, Darfur is present. And even though history is important; I believe that the present is more so."Do you agree or disagree???
In our class I think its way different. In our last seminar the topic was the Christmas truce and how it affected World War one, then in a blink of an eye we were discussing the war in Iraq. Then we talked about how bush is an illiterate person. I think its great but sometimes like Lucien I get really annoyed. Its basically the total opposite of what the period 2 goes through. They talk about the past and we don’t, we talk about the present. Even during all quiet on the western front we still managed some how to talk about Bush. Maybe we should have seminars together to balance it out.
In our class I think its way different. In our last seminar the topic was the Christmas truce and how it affected World War one, then in a blink of an eye we were discussing the war in Iraq. Then we talked about how bush is an illiterate person. I think its great but sometimes like Lucien I get really annoyed. Its basically the total opposite of what the period 2 goes through. They talk about the past and we don’t, we talk about the present. Even during all quiet on the western front we still managed some how to talk about Bush. Maybe we should have seminars together to balance it out.
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