The Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal Analysis
Chandler Hersom Ms.Jones English 2 Honors August 24, 2013
Passage no.1 Page 7 Chapter 1
“While they continued to write and talk, we saw the wounded and dying. While they taught that duty to one's country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger. But for all that we were no mutineers, no deserters, no cowards--they were very free with all these expressions. We loved our country as much as they; we went courageously into every action; but also we distinguished the false from true, we had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through”
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Paul and his comrades desperately do not want to go back to the front line, they feel that they have a good chance of dying.
Passage no.14 Page 135 Chapter 11
“Summer of 1918--Never was life in the line more bitter and more full of horror than in the hours of the bombardment, when the blanched faces lie in the dirt and the hands clutch at the one thought: No! No! Not now! Not now at the last moment!”
They’re falling like flies out on the front lines, as they desperately clutch at life.
Passage no.15 Page 139 Chapter 12
“I am very quiet. Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. “
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All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings--greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance. But no aims.”
He has no will live anymore, he just floats everywhere, no desires, no plans, no future.
Passage no.17 Page 140 Chapter 12
“We will be superfluous even to ourselves, we will grow older, a few will adapt themselves, some others will merely submit, and most will be bewildered;--the years will pass by and in the end we shall fall into ruin.”
What he is trying to say is that when the war ends. Those that served on the front lines were so brutally traumatized that they no longer fit in with society.
Passage no.18 Page 140 Chapter 12
“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front.”
This sentence show us that the title was actually the foreshadowing of his death, and it also tells us his death wasn’t due to a casualty on the battlefield.
Passage no.19 Page 140 Chapter
Passage no.1 Page 7 Chapter 1
“While they continued to write and talk, we saw the wounded and dying. While they taught that duty to one's country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger. But for all that we were no mutineers, no deserters, no cowards--they were very free with all these expressions. We loved our country as much as they; we went courageously into every action; but also we distinguished the false from true, we had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through”
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“
Paul and his comrades desperately do not want to go back to the front line, they feel that they have a good chance of dying.
Passage no.14 Page 135 Chapter 11
“Summer of 1918--Never was life in the line more bitter and more full of horror than in the hours of the bombardment, when the blanched faces lie in the dirt and the hands clutch at the one thought: No! No! Not now! Not now at the last moment!”
They’re falling like flies out on the front lines, as they desperately clutch at life.
Passage no.15 Page 139 Chapter 12
“I am very quiet. Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. “
Paul has nothing left. His friends are dead. His mother is sick, and he is on the brink of …show more content…
All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings--greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance. But no aims.”
He has no will live anymore, he just floats everywhere, no desires, no plans, no future.
Passage no.17 Page 140 Chapter 12
“We will be superfluous even to ourselves, we will grow older, a few will adapt themselves, some others will merely submit, and most will be bewildered;--the years will pass by and in the end we shall fall into ruin.”
What he is trying to say is that when the war ends. Those that served on the front lines were so brutally traumatized that they no longer fit in with society.
Passage no.18 Page 140 Chapter 12
“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front.”
This sentence show us that the title was actually the foreshadowing of his death, and it also tells us his death wasn’t due to a casualty on the battlefield.
Passage no.19 Page 140 Chapter