Chapter Content QuestionsChapters 5-8

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Chapter 5• Killing louse- pg. 71

• The boys discuss what they would do if peace came- seems like an easy answer

• What do they have to go back to? Pg. 73• Girls, Jobs, Continue to serve in the army- pg. 74• Farming

• Tjaden and the boys vs. Himmelstoss and the “parade”- pg. 76

• What did they really learn in school in relation to their current role?- pg. 79 “never been the slightest use to us”

• Kropp- 81

• Tjaden gets punished, slightly and then there is some Roast Goose- is this foreshadowing?

Chapter 6• This is an Offensive- Coffins, extra cheese and rum

• The Bombardment and its effect on the soldiers- the new ones and the experiences

• Rats

• The Bayonet 94-95- Interesting, a sort of code

• The Somme, pg. 95

• Rumours, pg. 96

• Storm troops- Creeping Barrage

• The author describes some horrific death and clashes with the French

• Pg. 107- odd

• He remembers his town, his life, nature

• Page 115- how many the dead?- 32 is all that remain from the Second Company

Chapter 7• Himmelstoss apologetic- maybe he finally realises what he has done

• 124: “terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks- but it kills if a man thinks about it”

• So many dead- 125: “Life is short”

• 125- propaganda war news

• 126: The girl in the poster

Chapter 7• 129: The French girls

• 129: It is forbidden to cross to the opposite bank

• The worry about food throughout their entire tour and give it up so easily for the girls

• 135: Paul gets to go on leave

• 137 the boundaries of his youth

• Whortleberries

• He tells his mother a lie

• 144-145: The Major

• 147: Naturally it is worse here than at the front…148- ‘All the best…

• 152: Books

Chapter 7• 154: Kantorek

• 161: Motherly advice about French women

• 163 “we have so much to say, and we shall never say it”

Chapter 8• 166: But most beautiful are the woods…

• Colour vs. the front

• 167: description of the Russian prisoners

• Dysentery

• End of 170- who the real enemies are…

• 173: The cost of medical care