Chapter 7

okay so i think this book boring but this did make me laugh. "And other tasty bits too, we roll our eyes and try to explain with our hands. Leer nearly drowns trying to demonstrate a sausage." yeah, it made me laugh...(: anywayss when the guys went with those girls i was happy. They deserve to have a little fun once and a while. An example that is very touching is when paul is kissing the brunette and it says " I want it all to fall from me, war and terror and grossness, in order to awaken young and happy" that really shows that there's no turning back tp the past of their youths, they are men now and it's all thanks to the war. On top of the struggles of war, when Paul goes to his hometown he finds that his mother has cancer, that's dreadful): and when he jumps when he hears the noise that sounds like shells, it's just heartbraking. I think this chapter overall was just heartbraking...


"The Brunette"(:

Chapter 6

SO i am finding this book rather boring. So in this chapter they are bake in the battle ground. I think it's terrible that they have to go through such bad conditions! So yeah they're in war fighting for their country but i don't find it interesting, i've never liked the concept of war. I feel bad when Paul is like “belong to another world that is gone from us.” he's talking about his youth and really they got into the war at such a young age that they wll never be able to get the pleasure of being young again. Also i tihink that Himmelstoss is a big jerk that likes attention like really who fakes an injury IN WAR?! It also came to a shock that there are only 32 out of the 150 men left! It's so sad...


them fighting... again

Chapter 5 ( the geese)

When the whole thing with the geese happened, it made me think and question myself. Why did these men have to sneak out and kill geese for extra food? Was the chef still not giving them the right amount of food? Or was it that they just wanted something different? Someone like to explain?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Goose .... a goose{:

Chapter 5 {conditions & Himmelstoss}

I think it's terrible how bad the conditions are. like lice! that's disgusting! but then again i don't really expect everything to be clean but i would atleast hope that these guys got some good things, they're fighting for their country the least their country can do in favor is send them clean stuff! HA finally that meanie Himmelstoss finally got his karma(pay back). what Himmelstoss did was not cool. i think the punishment he got was fair. as you can all tell i really, really dislike Himmelstoss. i also like how when the men went to trial and he got a talking to(:

Chapter 4

Okay so chapter for was more about the men actually fighting which i found very boring bgut there was one thing the did infact catch my attention. The new recruit that wet his pants during battle and Paul. So what i found sweet was when Paul took the new recruit in and helped him take cover instead of just letting the new guy die it was really nice. When that new recruit at the end though got wounded and Paul and Kat decided that they'd kill him, for they knew he really had no chance in living. The thing is yes they knew they'd be helping him by not letting him suffer when he had no chance but that's not really their decision they should atleast go to the recruit and see what he thinks it's un fair to him that Kat and Paul i have the choice to kill him there or not.


The men fighting.

Chapter 3

Okay so while reading chapter 3 i was very surprised that most of the new recruits are only 17! Also i like Kat's way of thinking about how the soldiers should get payed and fed the same because that's how it should be i don't know why it would be any different. now on to Himmelstoss. So when i read about what he did to the bed wetters i did two things. one, i kinda' laughed. Two, i wanted to puke. i found it funny that that idiot, Himmelstoss, did what he did like what does that help with, like really?! But also i found it aboslutely disgusting that that happened and like it says how to prevent getting peed on during the night they'd sleep on the floor and get a cold, and face it, that's not very healthy which means they're sending sick men out to fight and they'll be weak so they won't do as good and their loss will be because of that brainless leader Himmelstoss. So what any man with the hunger for revenge would have done, Tjaden and his pals beat him up! Some of your might think that revenge is never the answer or what ever but i think in this case it is acceptable. Himmelstoss might be the leader but that gives him no right to do what he did.Yes he might have been a nice man before but war does indeed ruin a guy.

http://literature-circles12-01.wikispaces.com/All+Quiet+on+The+Western+Front+Group+1-Tjaden
this is a website where it shows pictures of the main characters from the movies, including Himmelstoss...

Chapter 1&2

Okay so i'm just going to go out and say it, i don't like this book. Here are my problems. So in the beginning of chapter one when the chef has enough food for 150 men and there's only 80 men left why is he hesitent to give them the food? Can someone please clarify that for me? I mean if you have all that food and all these men that are out there fighting and working really hard why not treat them to some extra food! Then thereN's the teacher, Kantorek and his letter. He's the one that pretty much got them into the bloody war and is the one that persuaded them to join because " it's their duty" and will "be filled with pride" and then what does he do, he calls Paul and his friends, who are only NINETEEN years old "iron youth" yes ninteen is young but these men are in war and actually fighting and seeing people die and he has the guts to call them young! He's at home sitting on his butt probably getting more young men to go to war while the ones he called "young" are just struggling to stay alive!

Okay so i know the whole boots thing is that everyone knows Kemmerich is going to die so using his boots are pretty much helping everyone but do those men even feel the least bit of grief that their friend is dieing and their asking for his belongings already!

Now i'm guessing many other's are going to post about this so i'll just join them. Kemmerich's death. The mood i got from that was sad and heart breaking(if anyone else had another mood please do share). I mean watching your friend go the pain of his wound to slowly dieing at only age nineteen! It was just terrible! To be honest i felt like crying, it was really sad and this is a book about war so i'm guessing there's going to be alot more deaths.

http://www.listal.com/viewimage/378584 This is a picture of Erich Maria Remarque, The author of the book.