Paul hopes that his desire to be with the French women will recapture a piece of the innocence that he’s lost. Paul is also sent home on a seventeen-day leave and is greeted by news that his mother has cancer. Paul regrets coming home now because he realizes the life he’s missed out on. It feels that the war is all
After this incident, a series of unfortunate events occurs on the Row, such as an influenza epidemic and the day Darling, Mack and the Boy's adopted pointer dog. After a while passed by, the Row recovers and everything settles down. Doc soon cures Darling and Mack and the boys are very grateful. Once again, Mack and the Boys decided to throw another party for Doc for what he has done. The Boys get advice from Dora, the local madam and owner of the Bear Flag Restaurant in order to make a party, that Doc can actually attend.
The last meow thought I would never get over it when our dog Hollie died. My brother Dan and I both cried as Dad buried her under the avocado tree in our backyard, knowing that Hollie was gone from our lives forever. We made Dad bury her very deep so no other animals could come and dig her up. Dad said that Hollie was old (we knew that) and had been sick a long time (we knew that too) and had lived a good life (we knew that too) but my heart was broken anyway. My family also had a few pets before Hollie.
Being a young man away from home cooked meals and that lovely warm cuddly sensation that you feel when your mum says goodnight to you was tough enough (Pause) ; let alone the fighting and killing of those that had become your best friends, (pause) your brothers. Well you imagine this. (Pause) One day you’re helping get your dying mate into a Huey, while the others are calling cover fire. Then a month later you’re in some public services office somewhere being told by some Vietnamese woman, who I could barely understand for that matter, that you can’t wear your boots inside as it’s classified as unclean. (Sarcastically) Yeah and she was telling me about unclean.
Unfortunatly, Chiyo's family has been struck with tragedy as her mother has bone cancer and is constantly in agonizing pain. Seeing as the story takes place in the past, The doctor in the small town does not know what Bone cancer is, and so it is enevitable that Chiyo's mother will die soon. Chiyo's father is very poor and is advised to sell something in order to buy the mother a beautiful kimono in which for her to die in. The old Sakamoto, (Chiyo's father) is older then many because Chiyo is is second family and is so old, he is unable to care for his daughters. So he sells his two daughters to a man named Mr.Tanaka whom Chiyo has taking a liking to.
To begin with, the author of the novel, Erich Maria Remarque, is an accurate source on the topic of World War One because he actually served in the war. Remarque grew up in Germany and at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the German Army to fight in the First World War. While serving, he was wounded five times, the last severely, and because of this he was discharged. He wrote the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, in 1929, at the age of 33 after the war had ended. (Hoffmann).
Pilgrims 1. Summary * Ella and Benjamin’s mom is suffering from cancer. On thanksgiving the two kids, the mom and the dad decide to go to a friend’s house. * The friend’s house was very strange to the two children. All the people in it were old and weary and cutting up vegetables.
At first, he seems like a normal young man. Fresh out of school, he joins his friends in enlisting in the German Army during World War I. However, no thanks to his prideful schoolmaster, by the end of the book he has completely transformed from a lively young youth into a shell of what used to be a human being from the terrors he, along with his friends, must endure. Paul’s friends: Müller, Kemmerich, Detering, Leer, Albert, and Haie are good for Paul, as he begins to become more emotionally
In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul experiences many atrocious war events which leave him scarred and damaged emotionally, but in the same way other characters carry physical burdens and other such objects. While stranded in a ditch, Paul stabs a French soldier who unsuspectingly falls into the same ditch. Yet as the man slowly dies, Paul regrets this action, wishing “If only he had run two yards farther to the left, he might now be sitting in the trench over there and writing a fresh letter to his wife” and promising “I will help [your wife] and your parents too, and your child…” (Remarque 118). Paul then begins to doubt his action of survival and he allows his mind to become dominated with repentance. This experience leaves him emotionally wounded by the way that the French solider dies and Paul feels responsible for it.
Remarque shows us the childish impulses that soldiers gradually experience through his dramatic description of their desperation for their mothers. When Paul receives leave and arrives home, he has mixed emotions pertaining to his mother. He feels that war has aged him so much that he has no place at home. However, he tells the reader that he wants nothing more than to have the ability to act childishly. He states: Ah, Mother!