What happens to Kropp in all quiet?
Kropp has been wounded very close to his knee. He resolves to commit suicide if they amputate his leg. Kropp’s fever does not improve, so his leg has to be amputated from the thigh. Men die daily at the hospital.
Who is Kropp in all quiet?
Albert Kropp
Albert Kropp One of Paul’s classmates who serves with Paul in the Second Company. An intelligent, speculative young man, Kropp is one of Paul’s closest friends during the war. His interest in analyzing the causes of the war leads to many of the most critical antiwar sentiments in the novel.
What is the dying room in All Quiet on the Western Front?
After Franz Wächter, the victim of a gunshot wound in the arm, is wheeled away on a gurney, Josef informs the others about the Dying Room, a separate space adjacent to the mortuary where seriously ill patients are taken to die.
What happens in chapter 11 of All Quiet on the Western Front?
Wounded men are sent back to fight before they are healed; even crippling physical defects do not save them from combat duty. Leer bleeds to death from a thigh wound. The summer of 1918 is horrific. Though they are obviously losing, the Germans keep fighting.
What does Kropp call the new recruits?
C. What does Kropp call the new recruits? B. Maggots.
What Will Kropp do after the war?
They mockingly recite questions that Kantorek shot at them in school. Paul cannot imagine what he will do after the war. Kropp concludes that the war has destroyed everything for them. They cannot believe in anything except the war.
How does Paul feel about Kropp?
He reveled in the thought of how he would grind him. Paul remembers how even Kropp, who knows the uselessness of revenge and conflict, couldn’t help but embrace his spite after being wronged.
What did Kropp and Paul spill on Himmelstoss legs?
When Himmelstoss assigns them to latrine duty and then blocks their way while they are carrying the full buckets, Paul and Albert ‘trip’ and ‘accidentally’ spill the buckets of slop over the Corporal’s legs.
What is the dead room how does Paul beat the odds?
What is the “dead room”? How does Paul beat the odds? Where dying men are placed. Paul is lucky and only gets a piece of shrapnel at his thigh.
Why can’t Paul get in the bed on the train?
Why doesn’t Paul want to get into a clean bed on the troop train? He feels too dirty with his lice and filth from being on the front for so long. He believes that he will dirty the sheets beyond cleaning.
What happens in chapter 12 of All Quiet on the Western Front?
After years of fighting, Paul is finally killed in October of 1918, on an extraordinarily quiet, peaceful day. The army report that day contains only one phrase: “All quiet on the Western Front.” As Paul dies, his face is calm, “as though almost glad the end had come.”
Who dies in Chapter 11 Lord of the Flies?
Ralph, who hears the rock falling, dives and dodges it. But the boulder strikes Piggy, shatters the conch shell he is holding, and knocks him off the mountainside to his death on the rocks below.