The news came late. We sat at the hospital waiting for answers. We fidgeted our fingers, tapped our feet, and nibbled at our nails. The agony of unanswered questions. The doctor walked out of the room, a blank look on his face. When he reached us, a smile crept from his mouth.
"She will be alright," he said. "Everything is going to be fine."
I jumped out of my seat with excitement. I scrambled to my friend and gave her a smile from ear to ear. I touched her hands with a soft touch and gave her a hug. It was all just a scare. Everything would turn out fine, life would go on the way it should. We were all going to be alright, and I was fine with that.
"I wet his temples with a moistened finger and give him a swig" (71).
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
AQWF- WR#1-3
When we're young, our dream is to grow up. We want to feel the freedom, the power of adulthood. But then, once we get there, our views change. We no longer want to be an adult. Instead, we want to go back to childhood because we then realize things were much easier. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, she tries to explain through diction that when the soldiers were growing up, what they really wanted was to just go back to when they were young.
At first the idea of being an adult was mesmerizing; they wanted to grow up so fast. But once the adulthood came, they all wanted to crawl back into their childhood state where life was much simpler. The text explained a situation where, "The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom" (n/a). They wanted the authority, the feeling of being an adult, but once the feeling came, they no longer wanted to be an adult. The idea of becoming an adult is so exciting at first but once the time comes, they long for what they had before. In the end, they're never satisfied. All they really wanted was to be happy, but they then realized that happiness was what they wanted, not what they actually had.
At first the idea of being an adult was mesmerizing; they wanted to grow up so fast. But once the adulthood came, they all wanted to crawl back into their childhood state where life was much simpler. The text explained a situation where, "The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom" (n/a). They wanted the authority, the feeling of being an adult, but once the feeling came, they no longer wanted to be an adult. The idea of becoming an adult is so exciting at first but once the time comes, they long for what they had before. In the end, they're never satisfied. All they really wanted was to be happy, but they then realized that happiness was what they wanted, not what they actually had.
Friday, March 2, 2012
AQWF- WR#2
When we're young, we try and think of all the possible things to come in the future. No matter how big or small, our imaginations envelop this view where everything will be handed to us. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque makes it prevalent that the soldiers are ready for war, but they may not be ready to work for it.
The boys don't know what's to come or what's to happen next. They go into the war as boys and they have yet to know what's to happen. They need to mature and grow into men to fully understand all that is around them. It was said that, "When we went to the district commandant to enlist, we were a class of twenty young men, many of whom proudly shaved for the first time before going to the barracks. We had no definite plans for out future. Our thoughts of a career and occupation were as yet of too unpractical a character to furnish any scheme of life" (21). The whole idea of the soldiers growing up into men shows through this. Nothing will be handed to them. They need to earn it all. They were new to the war when they first came in but in order to understand everything they needed to mature into men. It may not have happened at first but the boys would have soon needed to turn to men.
The boys don't know what's to come or what's to happen next. They go into the war as boys and they have yet to know what's to happen. They need to mature and grow into men to fully understand all that is around them. It was said that, "When we went to the district commandant to enlist, we were a class of twenty young men, many of whom proudly shaved for the first time before going to the barracks. We had no definite plans for out future. Our thoughts of a career and occupation were as yet of too unpractical a character to furnish any scheme of life" (21). The whole idea of the soldiers growing up into men shows through this. Nothing will be handed to them. They need to earn it all. They were new to the war when they first came in but in order to understand everything they needed to mature into men. It may not have happened at first but the boys would have soon needed to turn to men.
AQWF- WR#1
Despite the horror of all the events that occurred during WW1, Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front managed to convey a sense of beauty. Throughout the first chapter, there were parts where the author subtly mentioned death and how it rarely phased the soldiers. Then when they went out in the field and relaxed for awhile, their minds drifted to better thoughts. It was said that, "There it can only be hygienic, here it is beautiful" (9). To other people, it could have been just an ordinary field. To them, it was much more. They realized the actual beauty the field had without overlooking it. War causes people to not take things for granted, and the soldiers did just that. They didn't take the beauty of the field for granted.
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