Josue Catarino
10-27-14
Period 1
Having to die is the worst thing to happen. One may die by sickness or go through excruciating pain. In war that means dying by getting shot, getting sick, or by losing limbs. Those people are the ones who lose more than just their lives. In All Quiet on the Western Front a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, war means soldiers go to die, losing more than their life.
By the end of the book Paul foretells what happens when he is gone he says "Ah! Mother! I know what these underpants have cost you in waiting, and walking, and begging! Ah! Mother, mother! how can it be that I must part from you? Who else is there that has any claim on me but you? Here I sit and there you are lying, and we have much to say, that we could never say it." This lets us know what happens in war when someone dies. The soldier doesn't just lose his life but he has to leave his body behind and let his ill mother deal with it, bringing sadness and depression to his mother. So the soldier doesn't just lose his life but also loses the happiness he once brought to his family,friends and in this case his mother.Another evidence that shows …show more content…
for example the poem says “With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children/England mourns for her dead across the sea./Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,/Fallen in the cause of the free.” this is a perfect example of how the soldier lost a lot. her mother now mourns for her dead son. this is what a soldier loses after death the happiness of the loved one. A second example is when the poem says “They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;/They sit no more at familiar tables of home;/They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;/They sleep beyond England's foam.” This shows what happens when the soldier is long gone. No more family dinners or the laughs and great times they had with others. the lose all this in the
10-27-14
Period 1
Having to die is the worst thing to happen. One may die by sickness or go through excruciating pain. In war that means dying by getting shot, getting sick, or by losing limbs. Those people are the ones who lose more than just their lives. In All Quiet on the Western Front a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, war means soldiers go to die, losing more than their life.
By the end of the book Paul foretells what happens when he is gone he says "Ah! Mother! I know what these underpants have cost you in waiting, and walking, and begging! Ah! Mother, mother! how can it be that I must part from you? Who else is there that has any claim on me but you? Here I sit and there you are lying, and we have much to say, that we could never say it." This lets us know what happens in war when someone dies. The soldier doesn't just lose his life but he has to leave his body behind and let his ill mother deal with it, bringing sadness and depression to his mother. So the soldier doesn't just lose his life but also loses the happiness he once brought to his family,friends and in this case his mother.Another evidence that shows …show more content…
for example the poem says “With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children/England mourns for her dead across the sea./Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,/Fallen in the cause of the free.” this is a perfect example of how the soldier lost a lot. her mother now mourns for her dead son. this is what a soldier loses after death the happiness of the loved one. A second example is when the poem says “They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;/They sit no more at familiar tables of home;/They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;/They sleep beyond England's foam.” This shows what happens when the soldier is long gone. No more family dinners or the laughs and great times they had with others. the lose all this in the