{"id":288,"date":"2025-09-09T21:58:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=288"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:21:17","slug":"elijahs-reading-questions-september-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Elijah’s Reading Questions – September 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
    \n
  1. All Quiet on the Western Front<\/em> deals extensively with the interrogation of masculinity; what qualities make someone masculine and how they’re able to protect\/project masculinity during war or other periods of intense strife. Not So Quiet<\/em>‘s first chapter touches on the interrogation of femininity, specifically when Tosh chooses to cut her hair to rid herself of lice. Does this set her apart from the other women as “unfeminine”, and is her womanliness supported or hindered by her bluntness and vulgarity?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Chapter two begins with Helen’s experience being assigned to Hospital 13, her struggle managing the Commandant, and her (temporary) anger toward the other women she rooms with upon arriving home. How does the leader\/follower dynamic in Not So Quiet<\/em> compare to Himmelstoss, Paul, and the other boys? Does the Commandant’s lack of sympathy bring the women closer together, like in All Quiet on the Western Front<\/em>, or drive some of the inter-group conflicts (Skinny and Tosh, The B.F. and Edwards, Helen and the “selfish beasts”?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. When the Commandant breaks in the new arrivals, Smith writes she plays “her trump card” when suggesting that Preston should return to England if she isn’t ready to drive an ambulance by herself for the midnight convoy. What do you think the consequences on the home front were for women who couldn’t remain or become volunteer ambulance drivers? Would it be more, or less socially unacceptable than being a man who refused to enlist during the war?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,47],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doing-your-bit","tag-not-so-quiet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}