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Kaitlyn 2022-04-19 09:02:11
During the First World War, the teacher advocated the idea of defending the motherland and fooled all the students in the class to join the army. They went to the army, only to realize that it was not the case at all. They couldn't eat enough every day, and the most important thing was to save their lives. The students died one after another. Paul went home on vacation, went to his alma mater, and saw the teacher lobbying the students again. He returned to the battlefield, and one of his classmates died. He went to the classmate and chatted with the people who had been away for a long time. When he encountered a bomb on the way, he carried the classmate back and found that the classmate was dead. One day, he saw a butterfly parked outside the trench, he reached out to catch the butterfly, at this time, he was shot
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All Quiet on the Western Front quotes
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Ginger - the Cook: [looking at soldiers lined up to eat] What do you want?
Katczinsky: Beans, you homely-looking son of a frog's leg! What do you think I want?
Ginger - the Cook: [the men shout that they're hungry] Shut up! I'll feed you when you're all here.
Tjaden: We're all here now!
Ginger - the Cook: Only half the company's here. Get the rest! Wake 'em up!
Katczinsky: [the men laugh] I wish I could wake 'em up. There's 80 of us left. The rest is in dressin' stations or pushin' up daisies!
Ginger - the Cook: [shocked] 80? And I cooked for 150!
Westhus: All right, we'll have enough for once. Come on, dish out!
Tjaden: You mean you've cooked beans for 150?
[the cook nods]
Tjaden: And you've got bread for 150 and sausage for 150 and tobacco for 150?
Ginger - the Cook: Everything. It's all wrong. I should have been notified!
Katczinsky: What a feast! Everyone gets two issues!
[the waiting men shout]
Katczinsky: [trying to keep order in the ranks] Get back in line! Get back in line!
Ginger - the Cook: Oh, no, that woun't do. I can't give 80 men what's meant for 150.
Katczinsky: [he starts to punch the cook but thinks better of it and tries to be persuasive] Listen, you drew rations for the Second Company, didn't yuh?
Ginger - the Cook: Yes.
Katczinsky: All right, we're the Second Company!
[the men shout]
Ginger - the Cook: I got my orders.
Albert Kropp: [agreeing with Kat] That's right.
Paul Bäumer: We're the Second Company and if only half of us get back, that's our good luck. Come on, dish it out!
Ginger - the Cook: [the men shout] No!
Katczinsky: [grabbing the cook by the throat] You're the yellowest baboon that ever drew a cook wagon, and you're scared, and it shows! All we want to hear out of you is one more little yip, and we'll cut yuh up and eat you raw! Why, you keep your kitchen so far back of the lines, we never get anything to eat until it's cold and we're asleep. Now, you low doen rat, get out, or we wreck the joint, so help me!
[the men shout]
Katczinsky: Come on, give us some food!
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Tjaden: There used to be some food in the sawdust. Now it's all sawdust.