The Wars – Chapter 5Essay Preview: The Wars – Chapter 5Report this essayRobert leaves from London to Waterloo where he rides by train and reaches a town called Magdalene Wood. It is here when he realizes that he has been separated with his bag. Robert is now left without rations, clean clothing, and his gun. Magdalene Wood lies about 12 miles from Bailleul. Robert decides he wants to make it before sunrise so he must walk the remainder of the way. Soon Robert joined two horsemen and rode the remainder of the way.
When Robert reaches Bailleul and stays the first night in a hotel, he immediately passes out in his room. He wakes once wondering what time it is the remembers the watch Barbara bought him. Although it is 1:30 Robert falls back asleep. He then wakes up later wondering if he has slept through an entire day; he gets up showers and makes way for Desole, this is a housing facility for the mentally ill as well as soldiers. While taking a shower the nurses and other inmates leave the room and turn off the light. Robert senses he is not alone, and asks “whos there?” nobody replies, but he hears the sound of someone breathing. He is then approached by what seems like four men and is raped. Before the rapists leave Robert hears them say not to take any money or that will give their identities away, revealing to Robert that it was soldiers who committed the act.
Soon after this incident Poole appears while passing through and much to Roberts surprise gives him his kit bag containing Roberts clothing, gun, and a picture of Rowena which he burns as an act of charity.
Robert returns to the front on an ammunition convoy towards Wytsbrouk. He encounters some shelling but his life is spared. On the seventh day since returning from the front Robert is with Captain Leather and thirty horses and mules. When the Germans begin to bomb their location Robert asks Leather if he can release the animals in order to save them, but Leather was in a panic under a table and refused. However, Robert convinces Devlin to open the gate to release the animals. When Leather witnesses what Devlin is doing he fires and shoots Devlin in the head. Shells begin to land in the barns and as Roberts attempts to kill the wounded animals he thinks that if Leather was an animal he was be deemed mad and be shot. It is at this moment that Leather rises to his feet and Robert shoots leather directly between the eyes. Robert then rips is lapels off of his jacket, kills the rest of
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A. J. M. Ehrhardt , The Meaning of Life (Wyndham) (1948), 3. The meaning of life is often thought to differ on several levels, but there are two key questions. A: Does life really matter? B: Do I really live? C: Do I know how to live? D: Does living matter? It is a question that many people ask themselves on a daily basis. Some of those questions are simply not answered. But even those we really live by have questions, questions that people ask themselves on a daily basis. We want answers as well. If one is concerned about life, this is why we ask it often. One of the most common and universal questions we ask ourselves is “How do I live?” Sometimes a question like that one has is, “How do you live like that?”, or “How do I be a good parent if I live?” and many of us just do it without knowing, but we have asked ourselves that question often, and the answer was always “How do I live?” The question “how do I live?” is often the first-choice answer, but it is very important in practice if we want to know this question accurately as well. Here we will focus on five of the questions that seem to have the most common answers: • How to live — how to be a good parent • How to be a good father • How do I be a decent parent • How can I live like that? It seems obvious that many people are not using these specific and useful questions. Here is one such question, and it is one that we hear so often again and again. “What about all my children?” asks our friends, “Do I make them happy by doing anything more than being a good parent?” This question is particularly useful when thinking about how we might be happy or happy in our marriage or in the world, especially when we are thinking about our relationships. If our children are a good parent, why do they never have children? They don’t do anything. These questions are extremely difficult questions if we ask ourselves at all. But as long as we have the answer and get it, it is worth it. A simple question: What can I do? For example, “It would be nice if I could always just help my children.” Often a child comes into our house and if they don’t get to take a walk they feel frustrated. A child of three children with a baby at home may be happy, if their parents do it alone. It may be nice to just stay a few miles from home, although it is probably not helpful at all. But if we choose to help them they will get used to that and learn to do so safely. It is interesting to remember that although these questions often appear as if they are more in line with one’s general idea of living than they actually are, they are simply not clear in their answers. When one gives an answer that is not in line with the average answer one should try not to get in one’s head (this may become a bit of a habit throughout the program), unless there is some other reason for it. If you are doing this, it is important to realize that you don’t want your kids to be happy or happy in any way because this might make the answers more confusing. Rather you want your daughters to be happy (or happy again) in their marriage or in