https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure Made by Table 5 en-us 2018-08-23 11:47:18 UTC 2023-02-26 00:58:33 UTC hello@padlet.com lindaterblanche https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/274824212 The novel starts where the soldiers are standing in line to receive their food and the cook says that he is unable to provide extra rations for the remaining soldiers, which immediately shows us the brutality of war.]]> 2018-08-23 11:51:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/274824212 lindaterblanche https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/275813501 The exposition of this novel is where Willie is still at home in Dublin and we learn about his past and childhood. This is also when we learn of his ambitions to join the war.]]> 2018-08-28 10:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/275813501 lindaterblanche https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/275821654 Themes: Brutality of war 
Loss of innocence
Links: War Horse
An Irish Airman Foresees ]]> 2018-08-28 11:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/275821654 lindaterblanche https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/275822128 Theme: Loss of innocence
Link: War Horse

]]> 2018-08-28 11:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/275822128 lindaterblanche https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/275822741 Theme: Loss of innocence
Link: Lament - F.S. Flint]]> 2018-08-28 11:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/275822741 lindaterblanche https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/275822931 Theme: Political agendas 
Link: Easter 1916 
 -W.B. Yeats]]> 2018-08-28 11:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/275822931 lindaterblanche https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/275824328 Paul is a young man who enlists in the war for the honour of fighting.
In the beginning of our novel he is sensitive and interested in poetry and the arts, but eventually becomes hardened and desensitised to the realities of war.]]> 2018-08-28 11:38:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/275824328 lindaterblanche https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/275825601 Willie is soft and immature and his problems at the beginning of our novel seem trivial: Gretta not writing back and privacy at camp.
Willie later becomes less emotional about his experiences and he notices the harsh realities of the war.]]> 2018-08-28 11:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/275825601 lindaterblanche https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278330236 Paul realizes that the war is meaningless and all the soldiers are risking their lives and will gain nothing from it, since his country will not win the war.]]> 2018-09-06 09:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278330236 lindaterblanche https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278330289 The epitome of the war is reached when Willie and his friends return to the battlefield in the most brutal battle in our novel. ]]> 2018-09-06 09:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278330289 lindaterblanche https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278333128 Paul returns to the front line only to witness the death of all his friends. They were collateral damage to the world leaders. Paul suffers a lot of emotional pain and turmoil and the futility of war breaks his heart.]]> 2018-09-06 10:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278333128 lindaterblanche https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278333689 For a long time, Willie stays innocent and sensitive through the war, but is then faced with a decision to lose his life or take the life of someone else. For the sake of survival, kills a German soldier. He then realizes how terrible the war is and is filled with remorse, so he digs a grave and buries the soldier he killed.]]> 2018-09-06 10:05:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278333689 lindaterblanche https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278334314 Paul Bäumer is killed on a quiet day on the Western Front.

]]> 2018-09-06 10:09:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278334314 lindaterblanche https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278335059 Willie returns to his regiment. We find out the Tommy Weekes has been killed. Willie is given one of his books to keep. Major Stokes commits suicide. The Germans sing Silent Night and Willie joins in. He is shot unexpectedly and dies in the trench. Willies's father writes to him but it arrives after his death and is returned to him. Willie is buried in the trench where he dies]]> 2018-09-06 10:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278335059 elizma1997 https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278488528  ]]> 2018-09-06 15:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278488528 https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278488756 Theme:  Brutality of war through loss of comrades
Link: Gas Attack -Choman]]> 2018-09-06 15:30:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278488756 elizma1997 https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278490425 2018-09-06 15:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278490425 elizma1997 https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278492390 2018-09-06 15:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278492390 elizma1997 https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278493427 2018-09-06 15:36:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278493427 elizma1997 https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278493896 2018-09-06 15:37:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278493896 elizma1997 https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278494743 2018-09-06 15:38:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278494743 https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278743757 Theme: They represent the fleetingness of life (brutality of war)
Link: Pluck -Eva D]]> 2018-09-07 07:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/278743757 https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/2334804615 All Quiet on the Western Front and A Long Long Way Home]]> 2022-10-11 07:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lindaterblanche/plotstructure/wish/2334804615