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All Quiet on the Western Front- Erich Remarque Context- Paul, the young German soldier, must guard Russian prisoners. A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends. At some table a document is signed by some persons whom none of us knows, and then for years together that very crime on which formerly the worlds condemnation and severest penalty fall, becomes our highest aim. But who can draw such a distinction when he looks at these quiet men with their childlike faces and apostles beards. Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, than they are to us. And yet we would shoot at them again and they at us if they were free. (Remarque 194)
Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,/And fearest to die?/Famine is in thy cheeks,/Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes,/Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back;/The world is not thy friend, nor the worlds law,/The world affords no law to make thee rich;/Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.
The Interlopers-Saki
Context- Gradwitz and Znaeym are in a feud over a piece of forest land. Neither man knows really why they hate one another, only that their families have been locked in this bitter feud for years. Each man is out to murder the other if they find them trespassing!
The two enemies stood glaring at one another for a long silent moment. Each had a rifle in his hand, each had hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind. The chance had come to give full play to the passions of a lifetime. (Saki 17) To avoid conflict, which elements of the Grad at Grad are most needed?