Chapter One and Two Literary Analysis
All Quiet on the Western Front Chapter 4 Literary Analysis

Chapter Three Socratic

My Ideas for Chapter Three

Preparation for a class discussion

 

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While reading chapter 3 in the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, I thought there were some moments in the reading that I thought would be worth discussing. In the end of my last literary analysis, I said that it would be a good idea for the author to continue to build up characters (especially those in the background). I’m also starting to see a theme in this book, if the author has to build up a character’s personality or meaning, he will do so in the past tense. This meaning he build the character through memories of other characters. This is what the author did with Franz, and it’s what he’s doing now with Kat. Franz was the lifelong friend of our main character and Kat is the god tier survival expert. Another thing that happened in the chapter that’s worth discussing is this quote:

We once spent the finest day of our army-life together—the day before we left for the front.

This quote means a lot towards the morale of the soldiers and it eludes to the point that these people don’t want to be here. When you have a goal as hard as defeating a whole country or countries, you cannot be dragged down by the feeling that you don’t want to be there. That will make the job ten times harder, and you could have a higher chance of losing the war because of it. These things are a bit out of the box, but are things to look at when studying a book.

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