Quotation

Read through chapter 10 by Friday, and complete the text by Tuesday, Feburary 19. Be prepared for an assessment of the entire text next week.
Write a minimum of two dialectic journal entries and comment on two student posts. Choose one salient quote and:

1. Explain what the quotation means in the context of the text
2. Why it is important/interesting to you.

"To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the whirl of the vortex sucking me slowly, irresistibly, inescapably into itself."
-All Quiet On The Western Front, pg. 55.

I really like this quote because of how it is written. How the author uses a whirlpool to describe the front, it's very powerful and poetic as well. The front does suck soliders in, they are young boys who don't want to kill. They're far away from the middle and don't want to do anything wih the war and kill. But slowly they learn to kill, the front is sucking them in, like a whirlpool. They cannot do anything and then it is difficult to get pulled out from the whirl. After the war, they can be physically, mentally, nad emotionally scarred. The whirl has changed them forever and they will never be the same again.