aqwf quotes

"And then what?"

A pause. Then Haie explains rather awkwardly: "If I were a non-com. I'd stay with the Prussians and serve out my time."

"Haie, you've got a screw loose, surely!" I say.

"Have you ever dug peat?" he retorts good-naturedly. "You try it."

Then he pulls a spoon out of the top of his boot and reaches over into Kropp's mess-tin.

"It can't be worse than digging trenches," I venture.

Haiechews and grins: "It lasts longer though. And there's no getting out of it either."

"But, man, surely it's better at home."

"Some ways," says he, and with open mouth sinks into a day-dream.






Dreaming about everything they are talking about and doing, in a better way. They’re eating beans but hes thinking about a huge meal, and thinking about being home. I dream about my life and what I would like to so in the future.
You can see what he is thinking. There is the mean little hut on the moors, the hard work on the heath from morning till night in the heat, the miserable pay, the dirty labourer's clothes.

"In the army in peace time you've nothing to trouble about," he goes on, "your food's found every day, or else you kick up a row; you've a bed, every week clean underwear like a perfect gent, you do your non-com's duty, you have a good suit of clothes; in the evening you're a free man and go off to the pub."

Haie is extraordinarily set on his idea. He's in love with it.

"And when your twelve years are up you get your pension and become a village bobby, and you can walk about the whole day."

He's already sweating on it. "And just you think how you'd be treated. Here a dram, there a pint. Everybody wants to be well in with a bobby."




Thinking about what they would do when their out of war. Or what jobs they had and what they see themselves doing. When he is in war he doesn’t have to worry about anything during piece time, just when there out there fighting They should think about jobs, because when they get out of there if they do they’re going to need a job
Kropp feels it too. "It will go pretty hard with us all. But nobody at home seems to worry much about it. Two years of shells and bombs—a man won't peel that off as easy as a sock."

We agree that it's the same for everyone; not only for us here, but everywhere, for everyone who is of our age; to some more, and to others less. It is the common fate of our generation.

Albert expresses it: "The war has ruined us for everything."

He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.
We sit opposite one another, Kat and I, two soldiers in shabby coats, cooking a goose in the middle of the night. We don't talk much, but I believe we have a more complete communion with one another than even lovers have.

We are two men, two minute sparks of life; outside is the night and the circle of death. We sit on the edge of it crouching in danger, the grease drips from our hands, in our hearts we are close to one another, and the hour is like the room: flecked over with the lights and shadows of our feelings cast by a quiet fire. What does he know of me orI of him? Formerly we should not have had a single thought in common— now we sit with a goose between us and feel in unison, and are so intimate that-we do not even speak.
The war had ruined there lives. Everything they started to do in life, like marriage, school had just all been ruined by coming here, and risking your life everyday. They sit quietly just listening to everything going on, thinking about there live. I think this is true, it would ruin my life to go in war and leave everything I love
“There’ll be a bombardment.” Perhaps it is our inner and most secret life that shivers and falls on guard

















There life they don’t see is scared part, because bad things happen in war and they have no idea what is going to happen I always get scared when bad things happen

This picture is about men and women fighting together to make the country a better place. If we all fight together and become a country as one then life can be so much easier. We will win in wars if we all stand together and help out. Even if your not part of the situation you should always try and give a hand. Life is so much easier with help, and with friends. So if your a group as one and not a single then youll win throughout life.

What would you do during war time?

The soldier:
I looked over at Ben and he had shot one of them, and just as I glanced away I hear another. I turn my head back at him and he’s lying on the dirt, with blood all around him. I run over to him and pick him up slowly and start running back to camp. I have to run through enemy territory but ill risk it for my best friend. So I do and I just pick up speed, and everywhere I go I checked to see if there were any enemies around. Right before we got to camp I decided to take out my pistol just incase, and matter in fact in came in hand because I had to shoot an enemy that was standing in my way. I finally got to camp and they rushed him you the nurses. I waited 5 hours outside the tent, and they finally came out and told me that he is in critical condition but they think he is going to live. You saved his life.