Chapter 5 was an acknowledgement of the author's note in the story "even though they may have escaped shells they were destroyed by the war. As they squad talked about what they'd do after the war; Haie says he wants to stay in the army opposed to digging peats and Tjaden says he will just keep messing with Himmelstoss. The story eventually shifts to them realizing that they can't do anything after this because this war has truely destroyed their lives as Albert says "the war has ruined us for everything." (page 87).
(Picture is of Death in the Trenches which is what Paul saw often)
The story shifts greatly in chapter 6 as they are bombed and experience an even worse bombardment then they have yet. Many recruits die and the scene is full of imagery such as "another has the lower parts of his body and his legs torn off.", "Soldiers run with their two feet cut off, they stagger on their splintered stumps into the next shell-hole.", and "we see men without mouths, without jaws, without faces." (page 134) Also as we learned in history class that the trenches were dark, vile, and very unsanitary this chapter gave a view of what it was actually like to a soldier in the trenches and the true terror of being there.
In this section onomonopeia was used: Crack! (page 75)
Also, Paul refers to the trenches as "No Man's Land" which is what we read in our history book on what people during WW1 called the trenches
http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/trenchesatvimyridge.htm: Harold Saunders reminds me of the characters as he is put in the trench too and is only told the glamour of war before he is sent off.
i like this post because i did something every similar. i also wrote about the mood and i also thought that chapter 6 used alot of imagery. even though the chapter was quite gruesome and horrifying, it was a good source of imagery and gave me a bigger sence of what they saw during the bombardment. i also did not pick up any onomonopoeia, so now that i saw that you found one, ill keep my eyes peeled for more.
ReplyDeleteThis chapter is horrifying! Just thinking about all they said and the way they describe eveything in such great detail honestly makes me sick.
ReplyDeleteThey really were destroyed by the war and I wouldn't blame them because if they didn't die they were always around dead people and I know that it would definitly change the war that i think. About the part when they saw people who had been hurt, the people without faces that would be so terrible i dont even want to picture it in my mind.
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