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Sunday, December 18, 2011
All Quiet on the Western Front chap. 1 and 2
The insight and emotions expressed in these chapters set the stage for the rest of the book. The death of Kemmerich and the narrating done by Paul Baumer creates a mood I cannot describe or tell what the mood is. Do any of my classmates know what the mood might be?
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When you talk about the mood are you talking about the mood when Kemmerich dies or the mood in general within those two chapters? Like when Kemmerich dies i feel so sad and it's heartbreaking that Paul had to watch his friend die and on top of that had to tell his friend's mother the news and when Paul goes for help from a doctor, they just brush it aside like oh it's only one more death no big deal, at that point i was mad. But throughout the two chapters i would say the mood changes here and there.
ReplyDeleteHmm....that does actually inform me about the mood. I agree with your statement. the mood does change quite often. That's why I asked what the mood was. I wasn't sure if there was just one specific mood for chapters 1 and 2. I think the mood for chapter 1 would be annoyed because of the cookhouse incident. Chapter 2's mood would most likely be heartbroken because of Kemmerich's death. Thanks for the idea of how the mood changes throughout the chapters of the book. It appears that each chapter has multiple moods that intertwine.
ReplyDeleteYou guys make a good argument. But i thought the mood in chapter one would be something more to do with fear considering one of their soldiers had just been attacked and robbed and now they have to settle who obtains kemmerichs boots. just the feeling of knowing that anything could happen at anytime and on top of that having to work their way through all the smaller issues like who gets the boots is all very overwhelming
ReplyDeleteI was thinking the mood of these first two chapters was rather violent because in chapter one, we focused on the soldiers' outer experiences, the dreadful violence, physical roughness, and the overtiredness of war. But in the second chapter, the mood shifts to heartbroken, just seeing a friend die, Kemmerich
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