Shorewood Student

1. The author uses fats such as how car crashes are the number one cause of teenage deaths. The author also says that the driving age should be raised because older teenagers tend to have fewer accidents than new drivers.

2. The author appeals to emotion in the way that she describes what the parents go through. She also says that parents should do something before it’s there own kids life. This is an effective technique for it touches on the parents fear for their children’s lives.

3. She never really establishes her credibility. She is a newspaper writer, not a police officer or someone whose opinion on the matter could be taken very seriously. On the other hand she writes for a newspaper therefore we can assume she has done at least some research.

4. The author didn’t really convince me. Some of the facts were a little questionable. For example the only reason older teens have less accidents than younger ones is because they have more experience. Also the article itself seems a little more directed toward parents than teenagers such as myself.

CYOA stories are very annoying. If you choose the wrong path you could die or go in a big circle. I understand why some people would like this kind of book. It gives the reader more options and makes the reader decide what to do. Over all I prefer traditional stories. I have not found or heard of a CYOA book that I think is better than some of the ones I read.

1. What do the men see stacked by the schoolhouse that has been made for them? The men see coffins.

2. Why are the German shells falling into the German trenches? German shells are falling into German trenches because the barrell is worn out.

3. What do all of the men remove from their guns? Why? They remove the bayonets from there guns because if you gets caught with a saw bayonet then it goes in your ears.

4. Kat and Paul have to beat up one of the recruits. Why? He gets claustrophobic and tries to leave the trench.

5. What shameful activity is Himmelstoss caught doing? He is pretending to be injured and hiding.

6. How does Himmelstoss try to make amends to his fellow soldiers? He brings a wounded soldier into the trench then he gives Paul and the others extra food.

7. Who do Paul, Leer, and Kropp meet while swimming? What do they decide to do? They meet some women and go over to there house over night.

8. What does Paul find out about his family when he goes home? He finds out that someone has cancer.

9. What news has Paul found out about Kantorek? What has his friend Mittelstaedt decided to do about it? Kantorek is a one of the men who ad to join a military unit that is supposed to defend the town incase the front is lost. Mittelstaedt makes Kantorek do rediculus task’s.

10. Summarize the following passage and explain why Paul did what he did: Paul is talking to a women who wants to know how her son died so Paul tells her that her son died instantly. Paul doesn’t want to tell the mother how horribly her son died so he lies even when she begs him because its so horrible.

I cannot write that down. This quaking, sobbing woman who shakes me and cries out on me: “Why are you living then, when he is dead?”–who drowns me in tears and calls out: “What are you there for at all, child, when you——”–who drops into a chair and wails: “Did you see him? Did you see him then? How did he die?”
I tell her he was shot through the heart and died instantaneously. She looks at me, she doubts me: “You lie. I know better. I have felt how terribly he died. I have heard his voice at night, I have felt his anguish–tell the truth, I want to know it, I must know it.”
“No,” I say, “I was beside him. He died at once.”
She pleads with me gently: “Tell me. You must tell me. I know you want to comfort me, but don’t you see, you torment me far more than if you told me the truth? I cannot bear the uncertainty. Tell me how it was and even though it will be terrible, it will be far better than what I have to think if you don’t.”