Chapters 1 - 2
How do different soldiers react to army life? Why is this different from what the youth had expected?
Vocabulary:
virtue (1)
lucid (2)
omen (3)
ador (4)
shirk (5)
valor (7)
exasperate (9)
Chapters 3 - 5
Describe as best you can the youth's first experience in battle?
Vocabulary:
extricate (19)
trifle (20)
covert (22)
scorn (24)
dispute (29)
feign (31)
Chapters 6 - 8
How does the youth explain running away from the battle? How does he justify his actions as not being "cowardly"?
Vocabulary:
ecstasy (37)
coutenance (38)
methodical (41)
jovial (45)
forlorn (48)
sullen (49)
Chapters 9 - 11
Describe the death of the Tall Man. How do the youth and the tattered man react differently to the experience?
Vocabulary:
piteous (54)
aghast (55)
writhe (56)
weary (58)
intolerable (59)
Chapters 12 - 14
How is the youth received back into his regiment? How have the soldiers opinions changed after the battle?
Vocabulary:
ridicule (73)
hasten (74)
visage (76)
persistent (79)
insolent (80)
torment (82)
Chapters 15 - 18
What comparison does the author make when the regiment needs to "sweep up the woods"? Why doesn't the generaltalk about his soldiers as if they were people?
Vocabulary:
meek (83)
pompous (84)
condemn (88)
repose (92)
pagan (95)
lamentation (97)
Chapters 19 - 21
What causes the youth's ideas of war to change so dramatically between chapters?
Vocabulary:
jostle (101)
stoic (102)
merciless (107)
remorse (108)
gaunt (112)
oratory (114)
Chapters 22 - 24
In what ways does the youth's ideas of war and glory change by the end of the book?
Vocabulary:
tranquil (117)
prodigious (119)
spectator (120)
succor (121)
obdurate (124)
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