Assignments 1 - Trench Journal (10/6) perspective of events after chapter 1 2 - Trench Journal (10/13) reflect on the "training" that resembles abuse 3 - Trench Journal (10/14) the feeling of revenge 4 - Trench Journal (10/20) revolver or stretcher? 5 - Trench Journal (10/22) your crushed dreams 6 - Study Guide #'s 1-12 (questions are posted above) 7 - Trench Journal (10/22) the unexpected friend 8 - Trench Journal (10/26) coping with the unbearable 9 - Trench Journal (10/29) comfort zone 10 - Trench Journal (10/29) sacrifice 11 - Trench Journal (10/30) "They are different men here, men I cannot properly understand, whom I envy and despise" (169). 12 - Trench Journal (11/5) When have you been in a situation when there was so much you wanted to say, but you didn't? It was too difficult, too overwhelming. 13 - Trench Journal (11/5) What was foreshadowed at the end of chapter seven? 14 - Trench Journal (11/10) From Paul's perspective what did it feel like to stab the French man? 15 - Trench Journal (11/12) When have you been at a point in your life where things are going so good that you feel like things are going to blow up in your face? 16 - Trench Journal (11/12) From crops perspective why would he rather put an end is to his life then live as a cripple? 17 - Trench Journal (11/16) Do you think Peter will come back? 18 - Trench Journal (11/16) Can you die from sympathy? 19 - Trench Journal (11/16) Why did Peter make it back? 20 - Trench Journal (11/16) Write down two significant events from chapter 10. 21 - Trench Journal (11/17) "Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days" (271) *Find two more metaphors in the novel. 22 - Trench Journal (11/17) When has 'the weapon of instinct' saved you? 23 - Trench Journal (11/18) From Paul's perspective, what does it do to your psyche to have everyone around you losing hope? 24 - Trench Journal (11/18) "The attacking lines of the enemy infantry are men like ourselves; but these tanks are machines, their caterpillars run on as endless as the war […] they roll without feeling" (11.41). In this sense, the machine has won. Dehumanization is almost complete. Compare the victory of the machine during the war to the victory of machine over our lives today. 25 - Trench Journal (11/18) "Summer of 1918" will always have a hold on Paul. What time period, year or day will always have a hold over you? 26 - Trench Journal (11/18) Who has Paul lost over these last three years?