Tucker Muse

Period 3

May

All Quiet on the Western Front Review

 

Directions: Answer the following questions to help you review for the test.  Turn in the worksheet before you take the test for 20 points.  You may use web sites to help you find the answers.

 

1.        Identify character traits for the following:

a.        Paul Baumer – Narrator, just got out of high school, joined up after high school, forced to grow up fast

b.       Leer – post teenage guy, loves ladies

c.        Kropp – destroyed by war, first to make lands corporal, would rather have the leaders fight the war

d.       Westhus – peat digger, Kat’s right hand man

e.        Detering – Runs away AWOL, wants to get back to his wife and his farm

f.         Kemmerich –  leg amputated, Paul’s friend, gives boots to Muller before he dies

g.       Himmelstoss – Small man, commander of their platoon  

h.        Kantorek – teacher that tells the guys to join the army, “wont you join up Comrades”

i.         Muller – the boots, looses a leg

j.         Kat – Survivor, brings the food back, shares with his friends, Paul’s best friend

k.        Tjaden - locksmith

l.         Hamacher, Ollerich, and Gerard Duval – significant of death, how they didn’t see who it was that they killed before but when killing Duval he saw him for, Snipers didn’t see who they shot, Crazy guy, glass against a wall.

2.        Explain the following themes:

a.        The Lost Generation – Cant find their home, don’t fit anywhere, no life, went from children to old men

b.       The destructiveness of war – destroy all their lives, caused them to become the lost generation,   

c.        Camaraderie – Friendship, loyalty, passion

d.       The corrupting effect of power – power goes to their head, don’t care what happens to anyone but themselves

e.        Shared humanity – they live a similar live, all ruined

3.        Identify the symbolism and or irony in the following scenes

a.        The bombing of the graveyard – Ironic, 

b.       Paul’s trip home – Doesn’t feel like he belongs at home, cant adjust, lost of youth

c.        Kemmerich’s boots – The boots symbolize death, comfort, and self image

d.       the army hospitals – the doctors are just experimenting, not caring if the people die or not, corrupted powers

e.        Paul’s death – Finality of war,  alone, glad to be dead, end of his life

f.    Little men – Corrupted by power