Intro to Characters
Tjaden
- Locksmith, nineteen years old, very thin-but a big eater
- Carries school textbooks, talks about physics during bombardments, nineteen years old
- Leader of the group, shrewd, cunning, forty years old
- Clear thinker, lance-corporal, nineteen years old
- Wears a full beard and enjoys officer’s brothels, nineteen years old
- Main character, narrator of the story, nineteen years old
- Peat-digger, nineteen years old
- Peasant farmer, married
- Injured and dying at St. Joseph’s
- mean Corporal that no one likes
- Sergeant-cook, called a carrot or Ginger because of his red hair
What's Going On...
- Story is focused on the men of The Second Company
- Starts out the story five miles behind the front
- Relieved the day before, and discussing the double rations (food) they’ve received (150 men were supposed to return, but only 80 survived)Beef, haricot beans, sausage, bread, tobacco
- Receive mail and head to meadow after eating; sitting on individual portable toilets vs. the common latrine for two hours… Find this pleasurable
- Reflect on how Kantorek convinced them to enlist and glorified the war
- Believed he was helping guide them, but instead misled them
- Also play “skat” while sitting there (cards) on a margarine lid, then proceed to napping
- They go to see Kemmerich while he’s dying, Mueller wants his boots
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