Showing posts with label semester theme...how did the boys make their decision to enlist?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label semester theme...how did the boys make their decision to enlist?. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

All Quiet On The Western Front - the video

The copyright was lost on this video, so its in the public domain now. Lucky for you guys!

In the first 20 minutes of the film...look at:
-the class differences [who is working class? who has gone to school?]
-the age differences between Kat and the younger boys who just enlisted,
**this B&W film follows the book best.

Recall the author uses "en media res" --when something starts in the middle of an event. Your mind is expected to catch up to fill-in what happened before we are brought in...the author also uses the literary device "flashback".