https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c Comparing the 2 chapters and both novels en-us 2021-07-30 18:41:51 UTC 2023-04-09 01:43:15 UTC hello@padlet.com 34604626 https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665173020 Is a 19 year old boy who is forced to volunteer in the Army  and serve. He is robbed his youth, because he now have to leave school and not attend school and serve his country. He gets separated from his parents and siblings. When he gets to the camp he realizes that he does not like it there.]]> 2021-07-30 18:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665173020 34604626 https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665175578 Paul only gets to interact with his family through letter writing. Paul as a young man he likes writing poetry and plays. But as soon as he joins the army he is cannot do all those things.

He becomes bitter along the way, because he trusted adults and they betrayed him by sending him to join the army.

He is a character that shows that brutal reality affects soldiers.]]> 2021-07-30 18:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665175578 34604626 https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665176685 Paul reflects on his life, on how before he wrote. He & his friends, realize that they did nothing at school to prepare them for war. 

He feels disconnected from his feelings. He later gets a shell shock after one of his friend  (Joseph Behm) dies.

Paul and his friends lost their innocence and trust because of the war.]]> 2021-07-30 18:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665176685 34604626 https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665179279 --> Paul does not have a girlfriend or wife to return too.
--> He is programmed to cut out feelings. " Parting from my friend Albert Kropp was very hard. But a man gets used to that sort of thing in the army"
--> He acts tough so that he can bottle the death of his friend. He is suffering and mourning the death of Albert]]> 2021-07-30 18:56:35 UTC https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665179279 34604626 https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665181673 At twelve he looses his mother, he then undergoes a shell shock as he feels his mothers death.

He meets the 13 year old Gretta Lawlor and falls in love with her.

At the age of 18 he joins the army to please his father, because his height does not allow him to be in the Dublin Police Force.

]]> 2021-07-30 19:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665181673 34604626 https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665184244 He joins the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and by December is training in Fermony, country cork.

He writes letters home to his family about his training and his new friends, Private Williams and Clancy.]]> 2021-07-30 19:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665184244 34604626 https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665185455 By January there is a truce with Germans on the western front. At the camp there is no privacy and it becomes a problem for Willie, because he wants to do his private stuff.]]> 2021-07-30 19:11:02 UTC https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665185455 34604626 https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665190198 The two novels does not illustrate the attendance of school between the two Protagonist. This shows that during WW1 school was not a priority and Army was the important thing to do then.]]> 2021-07-30 19:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665190198 34604626 https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665196732 2021-07-30 19:37:22 UTC https://padlet.com/34604626/88ajc7jt2t9n497c/wish/1665196732