What Kantorek means?
Kantorek comes to represent the dangers of blind nationalism. Propaganda swept up Kantorek and convinced him the war was good and just. Kantorek, having a measure of authority, passed this fervor on to his subordinates, who in turn marched off to their deaths. To Kantorek, the war is just an idea.
Why do the men receive double rations in All Quiet on the Western Front?
Terms in this set (16) Why do the men receive double rations? They receive double rations because there was 150 men the day before, so the food guy made food for 150 men, but after the battle there was only 80 men left. When they all get letters, and they stroll over to the meadow, and eat double rations of food.
What is the overall meaning of All Quiet on the Western Front?
People use the expression ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ to mean that a situation or activity that is normally very busy is quiet at the present time.
What do you think Kantorek means when he calls the men the iron youth and what do you think of the narrator’s reaction to this term?
Kantorek is wrong in referring to these young men as “Iron Youth” because they are not iron, they are just young men who were stripped from their future. Paul is bitter in his feelings toward Kantorek because he kind of forced him to sign up for the war and he is bitter.
How did Tjaden die?
Leer (lair) Paul’s mature schoolmate and math whiz who titillates his comrades with details of sexual intercourse, which the others have yet to experience. In the summer of 1918, Leer bleeds to death from a hip wound.
What is Kat’s sixth sense?
What is Kat’s “sixth sense”? finding things like food, water, clothing, and blankets.
How does Kropp die?
While they are evacuating another village, Kropp and Paul are wounded by a falling shell. They find an ambulance wagon after struggling out of the zone of the shelling. Kropp has been wounded very close to his knee. He resolves to commit suicide if they amputate his leg.
How does Paul die in all quiet?
In the film, Paul is shot dead by a French sniper as he calmly and carelessly reaches out of his trench in an attempt to touch a butterfly.
When did Kat die in all quiet?
After Kat dies from a shrapnel splinter in the head, the loss of “Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky” seems all the more intolerable, as though the final prop has been knocked from beneath Paul, leaving him defenseless in the face of the interminable war.
Why is Kat’s death ironic?
What was ironic about Bhem’s death? Behm did not want to join the war, but was persuaded to do so. He dies a very agonistic and painful death; being left out to die and shot several times in the process.
What happens to Berger in all quiet?
Berger is wounded dies in gruesome fashion. He was sympathetic to a messenger dog that was shot. He wanted to run and euthanize the suffering dog, but the other men warned him not to as it’s too dangerous. Their artillery is fired out and worn, their horses dead.
What is Kat’s philosophy of war?
Kropp’s philosophy of war is if you could just set the two leaders to fight and then declare the winner’s country the winner of the war, war would be more just because the “right” people would do the fighting.
What details at the beginning of Chapter 11 indicate the decay of the German army?
The lack of food, dearth of ammunition and fresh equipment, and the inexperience of the novice troops who are too young and improperly trained, if trained at all, makes it clear to the more experienced remnant of the army that the end is near. Kat says, wonderingly, “Germany ought to be empty soon” (Chapter 11).
What specifically happens to Muller Bertinck and Leer in Chapter 11?
What happens to Muller, Bertinck, Leer, and Kat? Muller – he is shot point blank in the stomach; Bertinck – is wounded in the chest when he gets out of the hole to use his rifle to take down the flamethrowers. He shoots the one and then the other gets burned by the flamethrower without his partner to help control it.
What’s happened to Paul and his friends at the end of the novel?
And, by the end of the novel, Paul is the only one among his circle of friends still living—he has watched nearly all of them (Kemmerich, Müller, Kropp, Kat, Bertinck) disappear. By the time all of his friends have died, Paul doesn’t have much left to live for.
What was leer good at in school though it could not save him?
Tanks. What was Leer good at in school, though it could not save him? Summer.
What is a tedious exercise to kill?
What is a tedious exercise to kill? Lice.
What injury does Kat suffer from?
shrapnel
What did Katczinsky Kat trade for beans and beef?
Kat, the master scrounger, invites the newcomers to share beans, which he garnered in a trade with Ginger for three pieces of parachute silk. Later, Kat finds two loaves of bread, horse meat, a frying pan, salt, and fat.
Why is Himmelstoss hated?
Himmelstoss is a character from Erich Maria Remarque’s World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front. He’s a training officer at the training camp the boys must attend before being deployed to the front lines, and he’s universally hated because he’s a bully.
How does Tjaden get his revenge?
Tjaden is a bed wetter, and during training, Himmelstoss set out to break him of this habit, which he attributed to laziness. Haie, Paul, Kropp, and Tjaden plotted their revenge upon Himmelstoss. They lay in wait for him one night on a dark road as he returned from his favorite pub.
Why is the fair haired recruit so embarrassed?
Why is the fair-haired recruit so embarrassed? He has left one of his comrades to die. He is crying from fear. His pants, which were far too large, fall down as he runs away.
What gives Kat away so easily?
D. What gives Kat away so easily? A. His pipe.
Why does Paul say the rain falls in their hearts?
Why does Paul say the rain falls in their hearts? He says that because the rain also falls on Kemmerich’s grave, and they are sad.
Why do the German Soldiers find the cries of the wounded horses so deeply disturbing?
The German soldiers find the cries of the wounded horses so deeply disturbing because they are innocent in the face of war. The point that Remarque was making about the abandoned man was that even though they tried to find wounded soldiers they could not find them all. Some men died on the field and were not recovered.
What does Paul say the soldiers on horseback resemble as he watches the columns of soldiers from the woods?
Paul watches troops file down the nearby road and sees them as one mass. The magnificent-looking riders on horseback “resemble knights of a forgotten time.” Paul and his unit carry wire and iron stakes to their site over hazardous terrain.
Who was the first to die in Paul’s class to die?
Joseph Behm
What does Kropp call the new recruits?
Maggots