Week 3 Post A

Vocab
Panzerfausts (105) - Disposable German antitank rocket launcher
Agnostic (105) - one who believes nothing which cannot be demonstrated by the senses.

Appeals
1. "Again he went quietly among the enemy until he located another tank in the same manner. Following the same procedure he let fly another rocket and another German tank went up in flames" (101). This is an emotional appeal because it shows the reader just how desperate they must of have to one of their guys get out of hiding, go behind enemy lines, and face multiple tanks.

2. "Stop that tank! Stop that tank! Chmiliewski roared. He was so frustrated with rafe that he ran after the tank, firing carbine at the heavy armor. He stopped only when the tank outdistanced him and he realized the futility of his attempt to catch and destroy it. When he returned to us we could see tears streaming down his face" (104). Like the appeal before this it is emotional because they were pretty much sitting ducks and they couldn't do anything so it connects to the reader.

3. "Back in Noville we were completely surrounded, cut off altogether from the rest of the 101st Airborne Division and the other defenders in and around Bastogne to our south. We no longer had radio contact. We were on our own" (111). This is a logical and emotional appeal because it has the facts but also it shows just how much they were outnumbered and everything else so the reader sees this.

Quote
"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 choose this quote because I thought it was significant to not only the book as a whole but also the theme.

Theme
As my quote shows a very powerful theme is the events and the surroundings that were present to those soldiers. For example the tank incident would be terrifying and there are a lot of other things that he talks about that are just as bad or even worse than the tank problem. So it shows all the tough situations they had to deal with.