Losers have no right to show their wounds

Dee 2022-04-21 09:02:28

Paul, who went home for vacation after being injured, saw that the teacher encouraged him (s) again like a new year. He encouraged a group of students younger than them to join the army, and was invited by the teacher to speak for the younger brothers and sisters and serve the motherland.
Thinking of yesterday, a teacher, a very responsible teacher, invited a senior who spent two classes to speak for us: Postgraduate entrance examination!
Senior Sister is naturally impassioned, high-spirited, ambitious, and full of high aspirations. After all, if you become famous, your words are tough. The so-called winner is the king and the loser is a bandit. Self-confidence comes from success, not success from self-confidence.
I would like to ask everyone who took the postgraduate entrance examination-----people who used to work as hard as that senior, and all the research friends on the first floor of the school library who were suppressed like the one at the bottom of Leifeng Pagoda, are all qualified. Do you stand on the stage like her and entice us?
too little.
If Paul hadn't seen the deaths of so many of his comrades, had not experienced the cruelty of war, if he had loved war, returned home, and had medals on his body, maybe he wouldn't have said: Serving the motherland is not so easy! However, he doesn't even have this qualification. He is just a coward and a loser. The experience, mood and situation of failure and disappointment are not qualified to stand on the stage to publicize and show, even for warning!
So, who will tell us: don't take the postgraduate entrance exam!

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All Quiet on the Western Front quotes

  • Hair-peak soldier: And manufacturers. They get rich.

    [murmurs of agreement]

    Albert Kropp: I think it's more a kind of fever. Nobody wants it in particular, and then all at once, there it is. We didn't want it. The English didn't want it. And here we are fighting.

  • Albert Kropp: Ah, the French certainly deserve to be punished for starting this war.

    Detering: Everybody says it's somebody else.

    Tjaden: Well. how do they start a war?

    Albert Kropp: Well, one country offends another.

    Tjaden: How could one country offend another?

    Tjaden: You mean there's a mountain over in Germany gets mad at a field over in France?

    [Everyone laughs]

    Albert Kropp: Well, stupid, one people offends another.

    Tjaden: Oh, well, if that's it, I shouldn't be here at all. I don't feel offended.

    Katczinsky: It don't apply to tramps like you.

    Tjaden: Good. Then I could be goin' home right away.

    Paul Bäumer: Ah, you just try it.

    Katczinsky: Yeah. You wanna get shot?

    Tjaden: The kaiser and me...

    [the others laugh]

    Tjaden: Me and the kaiser felt just alike about this war. We didn't either of us want any war, so I'm going home. He's there already.

    Hair-peak soldier: Somebody must have wanted it. Maybe it was the English. No, I don't want to shoot any Englishman. I never saw one 'til I came up here. And I suppose most of them never saw a German 'til *they* came up here. No, I'm sure *they* weren't asked about it.

    Paul Bäumer: No.

    Detering: Well, it must be doing somebody some good.

    Detering: Not me and the kaiser.

    Hair-peak soldier: I think maybe the kaiser wanted a war.

    Tjaden: You leave us out of this!

    Katczinsky: I don't see that. The kaiser's *got* everything he needs.

    Hair-peak soldier: Well, he never had a war before. Every full-grown emperor needs one war to make him famous. Why, that's history.

    Paul Bäumer: Yeah, generals, too. They need war.