In Our Time-Chapters V to VII Reading Questions:
Chapter V
1. In the vignette, how does the author emphasize the chilling and heartless nature of killing?
2. Why is Nick so angry at the beginning of "The Battler"?
3. How does the conductor trick Nick in this chapter?
4. What is wrong with Ad Francis and how does he become this way?
Chapter VI
5. How does Nick respond both emotionally and in terms of his actions to his paralysis?
6. What seems to be the author's commentary on the nature of love in "A Very Short Story"?
7. In what ways does the war affect the love affair described in this chapter?
Chapter VII
8. What is the effect of the internal monologue in the Chapter VII vignette? How does it emphasize the impact of the violence on the unnamed soldier?
9. What is ironic about the soldiers promises?
10. In "Soldier's Home," how is Krebs impacted by the war in terms of his relationships with the people in his home town? (Give examples)
11. Why is Krebs unable to make plans for his future?
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1. The chilling and heartless nature of killing is emphasized by the weather. While the cabinet members are being shot it is raining. In addition they shoot a sick man, who can barely stand.
2. Nick is tricked at the beginning of the Chapter by a train conductor or brakeman who tells Nick that he has something for him, at which point he gives him a black eye and apparently throws him overboard.
3.The train conductor tricks Nick as one would trick a child. He tells him he has something, a gift, for him and that he should come here. Nick is easily fooled by this trick.
4.Ad Francis is crazy, or that is what he terms himself. Apparently he at some point married his sister, though she wasn't his sister, and when she left him, and he got hit a couple times too much he went crazy.
5. Either he is totally oblivious to the fact, or he doesn't care. In either case Nick seems to b having a jolly good time. He sees it all in a positive light, while commenting on the progress of the liberation of the poor town.
6. Seemingly the nature of love for the first of the men that Luz was in love with was childish, while the second was more mature. Hemingway might be saying that over time relationships develop into something deeper and more real. Or he might be commenting on the difference of early childhood infatuations and later adult encounters.
7. The war changed the love affair for the worse. Luz and her boyfriend came together and had a quarrel between each other that never really healed, and showed them, on might say, that both sides of the love relationship were a bit childish. Yet in basis it broke them apart.
8. The internal monologue goes on to emphasize the chaos that was happening during a battle. Yet more than even that it shows the terror that an inexperienced soldier, or a more ordinary soldier might have felt during a battle. It basically gives a reader a deeper feel for the feelings of the soldier.
9. The soldier promises hopes, wishes, and prays that Jesus/God will save him and have him live through the battle. Yet what makes it ironic is that once the battle is over, he goes to bed with a women, maybe a prostitute, and never speaks about Jesus, in fact its sounds like even though he didn't die he still doesn't keep hi promise to believe in Jesus. Much less spread his word, as was said, he never talks about it to anyone.
10. Krebs becomes disheartened, he gives up trying to get married, as he sees the entire process of getting or having a girlfriend as tedious, and basically pointless. He describes it as one lie after the rest, and in the terms that one must be ripe for it too happen. Seemingly he becomes sort of disillusioned with the entire social aspect of the town and social life. He sees many things that should have once appeared normal to him as bonuses, and extras, he sees it all as, "too complicated. There was something else. Vaguely... The army had taught him that" (71).
11. One might say that as with much of America's, as well as the worlds view of the the future, Kreb's view of the future has shattered. After the Great War the world, was filled with disillusionment. The heavy toll of the First real industrialized was had an effect on many minds. Kreb$ is a mixture of this, and the fact that he is just lazy. He doesn't feel that the life he has here is all that he needs, and that is all lies and deceit. Though he is also too lazy too work over this and live his life even though not all of it is as he desires.
1. In the vignette, the author emphasize the chilling and heartless nature of killing and executing a sick minister that can not even stand up, which makes this stituation even sadder.
2. Nick is angry at the beginning of this chapter because the brakeman attracted him over and then hit him hard, which caused him to have a black eye.
3. The conducter tricks Nick because he was a lousy crut of a brakeman that had nothing to do and wanted to act tough.
4. Ad Francis is this famous and tough boxer that Nick gets to meet and also he is a little crazy because of a women.
Chapter VI
5. Nick respond to his paralysis by seeing the uselessness of being in war. Ands becomes more sincere to everything, it looks that he is maturing. He also relizes how most of the soldiers just want the countries to make peace as fast as possible.
6. That there is two types of love there is girl to boy love and man to women love.
7. The war affect alot the relationship with Luz, because they both changed during the war. The war caused a distance between the two lovers and separted them both forever.
Chapter VII
8. The effect of the internal monologue in the Chapter 7 vignetter is that the soldier seeks for any kind of support, and shows his internal feeling of him been afraid.
9. The ironic part of soldier promise is that he turns into God even thought he has never believed in God and now that he feels uncomfortable and insecure og him living through this battle, and approaching death. And also never does or accomplish what he promised.
10. In "Soldier's Home" Krebs is impacted by the war he was in involved in the 1919, by him not being comfortable talking to anyone in town. Also with his relationships with the girls he likes. He likes girls but does not like to talk to them or be involved in a relationship with them because he is afraid. Krebs just want to make life as simple as possible because it is hard to go back to one's old life after experience a war.
11. Krebs seem to be unable to make plans for him to be in a relationship with a girl, because he feels that he cannot love anymore and also he cannot pray.
11.
sandraG.
1.In the chapter 4 vignette the author emaphasizes the chilling and the heartless nature of killing by talking about the deaths of the priests.
2.Nick is very angry at the beginning of "The Battler" because the man had tricked him into believing he had something for him then he hit him.
3.The conductor tricks him by telling him he has something for him then he leaves him with a black eye.
4.Ad Francis was missing an ear, he became this way because they busted him too.
Chapter 6
5.Nick responds with an optimistic attitude toward his paralysis.
6.The authors commentary on the nature of love is that the love is still there even thought other things happen
7.The war affects the love affair in many ways .. the distance affects their feelings because he doesnt hear from her in a long time and the same thing with her.
Chapter 7
8 The internal monologue's effect is strong because its a soldier who is very scared to die and we can also visualize it.It emphasizes the impact of the vilolence on the soldier because he gets to the point twhere he promises Jesus to do what he wishes.
9.The fact that the soldier never mentioned Jesus to anyone even after he survived is ironic.
10.In "Soldiers Home" Krebs is impacted by the war in terms of his relationships with the other people in his town because of the peoples unwillingness to listen to him because he came back from the war tooo late so he felt the need to lie to get attention.
11.Krebs was unable to make plans for his future because he wanted his life to go smoothly with no pressures.
y munoz
chapter V
1. He describes and goes in deep on how the characters are and how they are killed in a detailed sick way.
2. Nick is angry because a man hit him off the train and his eye is hurting.
3. The brake man lured him over and hit him hard enough knocked him off.
4. He was a boxer and he was married to his sister then she left him and he went crazy.
Chapter VI
5. He has seen so much from the war he is maturing to a sarcasm character then before and also changing in his mind.
6. The nature of love has is low and not strong and barely hangs around with women because of how he feels.
7. His love is described as weak or childish which means he has lost his heart or just love drive.
Chapter VII
8. The effect of the chapter is that god is the last resort in a way to easy there minds on death it self. This also points out the weakness of the human brain on how to respond to the unknown.
9. The soldier is promising to tell everyone about god even though he does not he rebuilds the trench and is at safety and forgets all about it.
10. For one no one wants to talk to him about anything since there so bored. Also he likes to look at girls but not talk to them and feels they talk to much army said they don't need them to live.
11. Krebs is all mad inside and cannot let any love out since it as been done with since the war and just wants a smooth life with nothing in it.
roblesi
Chapter V
1)The soldiers sit a guy outside in a puddle and shoot him where he has his head on his knees.
2)He fell for the brakeman's trick and got punched in the face.
3)He slowed the trained down and it stopped.
4)He turned crazy from all the beatings he took and from his sister, aka wife, leaving him.
Chapter VI
5)He started talking to some guy and started smiling for some reason.
6)It says that their love was a boy and girl affair.
7)They couldn't see each other.
Chapter VII
8)It helps make it more interesting.
9)He never told anyone about it.
10)He doesn't like to get into complicated situations.
11)He got over life after he came back after the war.
ANunez
Chapter V
1. The author emphasizes the chilling and heartless nature of killing by making them kill him while he's sitting down. He was sick, helpless yet they killed him.
2. Nick was angry at the beginning of "The Battler" because he got hit by the brakeman as the train went by, giving him a black eye.
3. The conductor tricked Nick by saying, "Come here, kid I got something for you." (pg 53).
4. Ad Francis is crazy. He became that way by being hit too many times. He was a professional boxer with a dimented face.
Chapter VI
5. Nick responded emotionally by just sitting there, smiling and talking. In terms of his paralysis he didnt do anything but simply sit there.
6. In "A Very Short Story" the author makes the nature of love to be had and if not completely taken, it's lost. If there isnt something tying the knot then it's easy to cheat on.
7. The war affected the love afair by making it possible. The Major was who she had the affair with and her man was off over sees.
Chapter VII
8. The internal monologue in the Chapter VII vignette was that of a desperate man going to Jesus in his time in need. The violence will make a man go to the only thing he can rely on if he's hurt.
9. The irony of the soldier's promises is that they werent held. He lived longer after he pleaded, then in turn did nothing for his Savior.
Ted
Chp 5
1. hemingway does this by making the tone of the vignette cold.
2. nick is tweaked because the brakeman lured him in close and then socked him in the face
3. he had taken nick to a swampy stretch of road
4. ad francis is apparently crazy due to in inability to cope with circumstances
Chp 6
5. nick takes it rather badly since the war has messed his mind up slightly
6. love is spicened up by war
7. it makes the loving even more kinky? iunno, something like that
Chp 7
8. the monologue shows how desperate people become. it emphasized this because the dude seemed like a non-jesus believer, but resorted to him when he was in a bad spot
9. he says he believes even though he doesn't
10. krebs feels detached from his family, such as how he likes his sisters but doesn't want to be arount them
11. because the war has impacted him so much and he still wants to understand it
Ted
Chapter 4 only
1. The author puts more feeling into the coldness and nonhuman nature of killing by putting it in a flat, emotionless tone.
2. Nick is tweaked because the brakeman snuck a sucker-punch in on him.
3. The conductor tricks Nick by asking him get closer.
4. Ad Francis is a self-proclaimed nut. He got this way due to his inability to cope with the immense fortune he had.
beuttlerc
1.The chilling and heartless nature of killing is emphasized by the weather. While the cabinet members are being shot it is raining. In addition they shoot a sick man, who can barely stand.
2. Nick is tricked at the beginning of the Chapter by a train conductor or brakeman who tells Nick that he has something for him, at which point he gives him a black eye and apparently throws him overboard.
3.The train conductor tricks Nick as one would trick a child. He tells him he has something, a gift, for him and that he should come here. Nick is easily fooled by this trick.
4.Ad Francis is crazy, or that is what he terms himself. Apparently he at some point married his sister, though she wasn't his sister, and when she left him, and he got hit a couple times too much he went crazy.
5. Either he is totally oblivious to the fact, or he doesn't care. In either case Nick seems to b having a jolly good time. He sees it all in a positive light, while commenting on the progress of the liberation of the poor town.
6. Seemingly the nature of love for the first of the men that Luz was in love with was childish, while the second was more mature. Hemingway might be saying that over time relationships develop into something deeper and more real. Or he might be commenting on the difference of early childhood infatuations and later adult encounters.
7. The war changed the love affair for the worse. Luz and her boyfriend came together and had a quarrel between each other that never really healed, and showed them, on might say, that both sides of the love relationship were a bit childish. Yet in basis it broke them apart.
8. The internal monologue goes on to emphasize the chaos that was happening during a battle. Yet more than even that it shows the terror that an inexperienced soldier, or a more ordinary soldier might have felt during a battle. It basically gives a reader a deeper feel for the feelings of the soldier.
9. The soldier promises hopes, wishes, and prays that Jesus/God will save him and have him live through the battle. Yet what makes it ironic is that once the battle is over, he goes to bed with a women, maybe a prostitute, and never speaks about Jesus, in fact its sounds like even though he didn't die he still doesn't keep hi promise to believe in Jesus. Much less spread his word, as was said, he never talks about it to anyone.
10. Krebs becomes disheartened, he gives up trying to get married, as he sees the entire process of getting or having a girlfriend as tedious, and basically pointless. He describes it as one lie after the rest, and in the terms that one must be ripe for it too happen. Seemingly he becomes sort of disillusioned with the entire social aspect of the town and social life. He sees many things that should have once appeared normal to him as bonuses, and extras, he sees it all as, "too complicated. There was something else. Vaguely... The army had taught him that" (71).
11. One might say that as with much of America's, as well as the worlds view of the the future, Kreb's view of the future has shattered. After the Great War the world, was filled with disillusionment. The heavy toll of the First real industrialized was had an effect on many minds. Kreb$ is a mixture of this, and the fact that he is just lazy. He doesn't feel that the life he has here is all that he needs, and that is all lies and deceit. Though he is also too lazy too work over this and live his life even though not all of it is as he desires.
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