Week 3 Post B

"At least twenty tanks moved into our positions. One of them, a Panther, headed straight for our foxhole. Its left track crunched over our hole, crumbling dirt down on us. Speer and I crouched low in the bottom of our hole, tucking our heads close to our chests, making ourselves as small as possible. We didn't dare look up. We could only clutch our rifles and wait for it to pass. It stopped. We were trapped in a hole in frozen ground, and the only way out was covered by the steel track of an enemy tank. If he gets hit and burns, we'll be roasted alive, I told Speer."

I thought for post B I would talk about this quote which I thought represented this section well. He talks about what it felt like and at least in my mind I thought that would be terrifying. He talks about how in Summer tanks would get over foxholes and just grind the treads crushing the dirt and killing the soldier trapped underneath. Also when the ground is frozen he said the tanks would go over the foxholes and suffocate the soldiers underneath or put their exhausts over the holes giving off carbon monoxide. What my point is thought is that this quote is really important to the feeling and environment of the book because things like this happen and even things that are worse. Not only that but when I'm reading I can imagine and picture the things that are going on and I feel like I'm there almost like watching a movie.