World War I

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World War I Soldiers Home
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III. Bloody Conflict

• Trenches No Mans Land
• 1. Tactics
• Artillery
• Grenades
• Bayonets
• 2. Conditions
• Human Smell
• Rats
• Water

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III. Bloody Conflicts (cont.)

• Technology
• 1. Poison Gas
• 2. Tanks
• 3. Airplanes

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III. Bloody Conflict (cont.)

• Allies in Trouble
• 1. Bolshevik Revolution Communism
• a. Russia pull-out in 1917.
• 2. Famous Leaders
• a. General Foch Allies
• b. General Pershing US Troops
• (alone)
• US unprepared for BATTLE!!

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III. Bloody Conflict

• 3. Battle of Argonne Forest
• a. Last stand for Germans (1918)
• i. US breaks through German lines.
• D. War Ends
• 1. Armistice Day
• a. 11-11-11 (1918)

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• Time it was
• And what a time it was, it was
• A time of innocence
• A time of confidences.
• Long ago
• It must be
• I have a photograph
• Preserve your memories
• Theyre all thats left you.

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Theme life lesson!

• Preserve your memories.
• Carpe diem!
• Time passes on quickly.
• Innocence is quickly lost, and old age sets in!
• We are about to read a story that reinforces how
  quickly innocence can be lost!

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Metaphor/Symbol

• Bookends represent the two ends of life.
• the pages of our lives (Jonathon Crain)

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Poetic Language

• Alliteration
• Time the ts
• What and was the ws
• Assonance
• Was, what, a, and long the as
• Consonance
• It, what, must, photograph, thats, left ts
• Innocence and confidences the ss

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Soldiers Home

• Ernest Hemingway

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Modernism

• Definition Modernists sought to capture the
  essence of modern life in both FORM and CONTENT
• Characteristics How did Modernists capture the
  essence of modern life in both form and content?
• They constructed their work out of fragments.
• They omitted expositions, transitions,
  resolutions, and explanations.
• Their themes were implied rather than directly
  stated.
• They created a sense of uncertainty.
• They force readers to draw their own conclusions.

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Hemingways style

• Hemingway is Modernism at its finest.
• Hemingway is a man of few words
• Hemingway has said that his writing is like an
  iceberg that is, one-eighth of the story lies
  above the surface of the sea (what's written),
  and seven-eighths lies beneath the surface
  (what's implied).

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Hemingways Iceberg Theory
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Soldiers Home

• This is a short story about a soldier who has
  returned from WWI.

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Your Notes Your Purpose

• Mark 10 textual examples that describe Krebs
• Before the war.
• During the war.
• After the war.

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Lets look at Krebs before the war.

• Methodist college student from Kansas
• There is a picture of him among his fraternity
  brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same
  height and style collar.
• All Hemingway tells us is that he enlisted in the
  Marines in 1917.
• What can we assume about Krebs without being told
  by Hemingway? What is implied?

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Krebs during the war.

• The picture of Krebs and a friend with two German
  girls.
• Krebs and the corporal look too big for their
  uniforms. The German girls are not beautiful.
• Krebs has seen combat at Belleau Wood, Soissons,
  the Champagne, St. Mihiel, and in the Argonne.

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After the war

• At first, he doesnt want to talk about the war.
• Then when he starts to NEED to talk, no one wants
  to hear it. What does this suggest about the
  American people?
• Krebs starts making stories up. How does he feel
  about his lies?
• All of the times that had been able to make him
  feel cool and clear inside himself when he
  thought of them the times so long back when he
  had done the one thing, the only thing for a man
  to do, easily and naturally, when he might have
  done something else, now lost their cool,
  valuable quality and then were lost themselves.

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After the war

• Even his lies were too sensational for the pool
  hall.
• Krebs acquired nausea in regard to experience
  that is the result of untruth or exaggeration,
  and when he occasionally met another man who had
  really been a soldier and they talked a few
  minutes in the dressing room at a dance he fell
  in the easy pose of the old soldier among other
  soldiers that he had been badly, sickeningly
  frightened all the time. In this way he lost
  everything.

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After the war

• On the whole he had liked Germany better. He did
  not want to leave Germany. He did not want to
  come home. Still, he had come home.

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An average day

• Slept late
• Walk down town to the library for a book.
• Ate lunch at home.
• Read on the front porch.
• Played pool. He loved to play pool.
• Practiced clarinet
• Strolled down town
• Read and went to bed

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Girls

• Vaguely, he wanted a girl but he did not want to
  have to work to get her.
• He would have liked to have a girl but he did not
  want to have to spend a long time getting her.
• He did not want to get into the intrigue and the
  politics.
• He did not want to have to do the courting.
• He did not need a girl. The army taught him
  that.

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Girls

• You did not need a girl unless you thought about
  them.
• Then sooner or later you always got one.
• That was the thing about French and German girls.
  There was not all this talking.
• He liked American girls, but the world they were
  in was not the world he was in.

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The ending

• His parents start worrying about him. How do
  they address it?
• Take the car.
• Mom not Dad visits with him.
• God has some work for every one to doThere can
  be no idle hands in His kingdom.
• Im not in His kingdom.
• Ive worried about you too muchI know the
  temptations you must have been exposed toI have
  prayed for you

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The ending

• The other boys are settling down, getting jobs,
  getting married
• Your father does not want to hamper your
  freedomcarjob.
• Dont you love your dear mother?
• NoI dont love anybodyI didnt mean itI was
  just angry at somethingI didnt mean I didnt
  love you.

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The ending

• Krebs is affectionate. He kisses her hair. Yet
  he feels sick and nauseated.
• Now you pray.
• I cant.
• Do you want me to pray for you?
• Yes.

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The ending

• He had tried so to keep his life from being
  complicated. Still, none of it had touched him.
  He had felt sorry for his mother and she had made
  him lieHe wanted his life to go smoothly. It
  had just gotten going that way. Well, that was
  all over now, anyway

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JOURNAL

• LIST How is this Modernism?

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Hemingways Iceberg Theory