Stephen Kago

A Report Assignment Student's Name Affiliation Course Tutor Date Chapter One: Effects of war on the soldiers For the first chapter the main subject is how the war has become a horror to the people and how the common soldiers are affected by this war. (1) The author argues that soldiers who are involved in the war volunteer as a sign of expressing their responsibilities as responsible and patriotic citizens and thus their intentions were not to be soldiers for life neither is it in their mind to take this as a career for them. The author indicates that for young men who did not want to involve themselves in the war, they were rebuked, condemned and ostracized by the society for not taking part in the war voluntarily. In a country like England men who had soldier- like bodies were in a lot of pressure to join the army and fight for their country (Mitchell, A. M.2013). (1) A specific piece of evidence used by the author is “today is wonderfully good”. The countrymen were expected to show patriotism by defending their nation against the war that had just erupted and swept the whole of European nations during the nineteenth century, there was a lot of expectation from the society that people could become loyalist of the state so that they could defend their nations from the war. (1) Chapter Two: Loss of Humanism through the war The main subject of this chapter is unglamorous, unheroic and a very horrifying life among the men defending their nations, that is the men who are called to be soldiers in the World War I. (2) The author argues how human beings are stripped off their manner and morals by this war because of the way each human being who is taking part in the war decides to be brutal in order to defend their life and that of their home nation. (2) A specific piece of evidence used by the author is Paul realizes his generation has “become a waste land”, the war to be so brutal that he sees his company of friends being brutally murdered and from his description and the details he is giving there was so much horror in that war. (2) Chapter Three: Loss of living hopes after the war The main subject of this chapter is how many men do not care of being injured or being killed from the war and all rather they are surprised and frightened in case they survive because they have a concern of whether they can survive as hunger will strike them because there is little to eat with the deaths of other people. (3) The author argues that a letter from Kantorek’s disgust’s him together with his friends because the information it contains undermines the work done by the younger generation who take part in the war and the bad attitude that the generation of the old people have towards the young men who took part in this war. (3) A specific piece of evidence used by the author is “we had become successful student of this method” the young men who did everything to defend their country are referred as strong and impassive but as they author reports the young men see themselves as people who have lost their mind and not at any point do they feel to be impassive and they do not see themselves to be young because the brutality in the war has left them feeling like they are much aged and not young anymore and thus calling them young is betraying their trust and respect that they deserve after they have decided to volunteer and strongly defend their nation from the war. (3) Chapter Four: Change of life after the war The main message from the chapter is expression of how the young men who took part in the war feel useless because the life they had can no longer be the same. The young men who took part in the war are disturbed because they actually have nothing to take a focus on for their future as argued by the author. The lives of the young men who took part in this war has turned them to people without future dreams and the dreams they had before are made to become unreal, they felt cut off from humanity as argued by the author. (4) In this chapter the author argues that the short life of being a soldier has taught the young group of men who participated in the war more than they could ever learn in school and they feel that life is more about facts and they are of much importance to them because of what war has taught them. The only loyalty and love that can be expressed by this young men who took part in the war can only be expressed and shown to their fellow friends with whom they participated in the war together with. (4) A specific piece of evidence that that they author uses to support his case is “there is suddenly in our veins, in our hands, in our eyes a tense waiting,” the older people from the older generation had continued to live their lives and they still had their families and jobs the young men had their life cut off just when they had begun to live this life of theirs, that they could go back and continue with after the war unlike the young men who took part in the war who had lost everything and had to start their life once more from a blank point as the war had become a life for them. (4) Chapter Five: Discipline as a means of survival in the war among the soldiers The main subject of this chapter is soldiers who take part in the war undergo a lot of humiliation but the discipline that is impacted to them is arbitrary and has toughened them and it makes them to have courage and strength to survive as long as one observes this discipline. (5) The author argues that brutality and madness from the war had given the young men experiences that made them brutal and almost made them to become insane because they never observed humanity anymore (5) A specific piece of evidence used by the author is “we are brothers” for the young men who are near to die they are saddened and their friends try to comfort them”. The war has toughened things that even the doctor becomes tired with the work they are doing and even refuses to see sick patients who need to be treated as the author says that when his friend need to be treated the doctors claims that he already amputated five legs that day. (5) Conclusion The author concludes by saying that the process of accepting to undergo the hardships of the war by taking oneself feelings from the once feelings in order to accept the hardship brought about by the war one had to accept that humanity actions are not part of the war and this is the reason why the doctor are also reluctant to do their work. (5) References 1 CSM, Robert Likeman. Australian Doctors on the Western Front. Vol. 3. Rosenberg Publishing, 2014. 2 Australian Doctors on the Western Front (1) 3 Australian Doctors on the Western Front (2) 4 Australian Doctors on the Western Front (3) 5 Australian Doctors on the Western Front (4) 6 Australian Doctors on the Western Front (5)