Excerpt From 'All Quiet On The Western Front'

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  Passages from the Text Pggg Comments and Questions “lived in Udine and came out this way nearly every day to see how things were going, and things went very badly.” 4 Implying that the King lived in Udine and came out the same way everyday in a speeding car, which probably means that it was very dangerous for the King and he had to move fast. World War I was probably really terrible and that’s why things didn’t look so good. A lot of people were dieing. "I was very glad that the Austrians seemed to want to come back to the town some time, if the war should end, because they did not bombard it to destroy it but only a little in a military way." 5 Saying that the Austrians liked the little and could enjoy the pleasures of life…show more content…
Henry could see all the troops with their guns ready. Ready to fight and ready to kill. He spots the town they are trying to take and sees all the broken houses there. Does he realize what the war has brought upon the country? That the war is just destroying nature and all living beings? Is the war just and for a good cause? "I ate the end of my piece of cheese and took a swallow of wine. Through the other noise I heard a cough, then came the chuh-chuh-chuh-chuh- then there was a flash, as when a blast-furnace door is swung open, and a roar that started white and went red and on and on in a rushing wind." 54 Henry sits there and enjoys his food then all of a sudden he hears the shelling occur, with all the bright flashes and the loud noises. Wonder if he’s scared of the shelling? That maybe he thinks he might not make? What’s going through Henry’s mind right now? That maybe he won’t even be able to see Catherine

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