Tuesday, November 10, 2009

All Quiet #2

Why is the narrator so distraught from killing the French soldier Duval?
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  1. DecembrielNovember 11, 2009 at 9:49 AM

    He was distraught because he had time to think about his killing and see the french soldier slowly die. Had the German soldier killed the french soldier in the line of fire he wouldn't of been so distraught. But the trench served as a torture chamber. He couldn't escape and the gurgling noise from the body didn't allow him to forget what he had just done.

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  2. Tsegu KahsayNovember 12, 2009 at 2:28 PM

    Because he realized that he was nothing else than a person like him who might have left a wife with his children and a mother who is anxious of his return. Beside all this he never saw a dying person nor did he kill any. This made him think that if they were without a gun and without the green military dress, they were all same.

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  3. dtwelve89November 12, 2009 at 6:28 PM

    I agree with Tee Kaey and the reaction that the narrator has is very much like Tim O'Brien's when he too killed a man. After the adrenaline rush has passed they both realize that that their victim's are human beings. Human beings with lives and people who love them. However because the narrator has ended the French soldier's life he will never again see his wife and family and for that the narrator blames himself. The two men could have been friends even more brothers had the circumstances been different. So as the narrator walks away with this experience he will always remember not that he killed a man in war, but a comrade.

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  4. Qi LiNovember 13, 2009 at 12:13 AM

    Because the narrator is not coldblooedness.
    He notice that who he just killed was a human being. He found that it seems no reason for him to kill this man. He felt very guilty deepdown. In fact, he had no choice. War is about "Kill"or"Be Killed". The narrator didn't want to die. At the same time, he didn't want to kill others. Therefore, he so distraught from killing the French soldier Duval.

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  5. Benson O.oNovember 13, 2009 at 12:23 PM

    Because behind the different nationality and different culture, they are all human being. After the man died in front ofthe narattor, he started to think about the died man is as same as himslef. Both of them have family to take care, both of them should experience the same. But right now, the french man died. Eventhough they stand at different side but that is not enough for a reason that kill others and bring disaster to others' family. So he so dustraught from killing the Frech soldier Duval

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  6. raisinsklNovember 13, 2009 at 5:03 PM

    The narrator said this sentence because it is only way he would redeem himself from killing one who bounded up with his life, the French soldier. He wanted to be a printer to fulfill the dead man’s goal.

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  7. AnonymousNovember 13, 2009 at 6:00 PM

    He killed not a chiken, but a man, a human being owning his life. As the first time to kill people, he didn't know why he must kill the person. He didn't believe the man has done something wrong even though the man was an enemy to him. He recalled that the man also had his own family, friends and relatives who take care of him a lot like himself. As well he might wonder what the family would be like in the future after losing the man, what kind of feelings his friends and relatives would have. He could imagine, experienced the distress and sadness. Therefore, as a hot-blooded person, he was so distraught from killing the French soldier Duval.

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  8. MingTaoNovember 13, 2009 at 9:49 PM

    At the beginning, the narrator just thought the the French soldier as an enemy, an objuect not a human like himself, but after he experienced dying, he beginning to understand the suffering of being killed. At the end when he know that the French soldier have wife and family, he felt total regret he had killed that French soldier, because he is the same human being as the narrator himself. I think he also struggled that taken somebody's life to maintain his life, so he so distraught from killing the French soldier.

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  9. karen-zhongNovember 13, 2009 at 10:06 PM

    Without a war, the narrator would not kill the French soldier Duval, the French soldier would not died by the narrator’s hand; however, they were actually struggle in the war, so either of them had to die. I thought the narrator understood this rule, but as a human being, he could not accept he killed a man through detachment; he may think the French soldier was similar to him-- he also has parents and wife; so, he was so distraught and felt very sorry for them because he killed their son, also as a husband.

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