Week 5 Post A

Vocab
Meager (230) - not enough in amount or quantity; insufficient

Bivouac (210) - camp: temporary living quarters

Appeals
1. "The Christmas card leaflet showed a picture of a sad faced little girl with big, sad eyes and long hair. A tear showed on one of her cheeks..." (201). First off this is talking about the Germans and how they dropped leaflets with propaganda on them. He talks about how even thought the Germans knew they were losing they dropped this leaflets saying if you bring these to them they'll take you as a prisoner for the rest of the war and you'll be safe . Now obviously that isn't true which leads me to saying that this is very much an emotional appeal.

2. "The Germans had propaganda for every personality type. What they hadn't counted on was that we were angry and stubborn enough to stay in Bastogne and fight to the last man" (202). This connects to the previous appeal and I thought I would put more support in just because I think this is a major theme so I thought I would reiterate it.

3. "Their grand plan was a shambles. Now, the best they could hope for was to stall us and hold open a corridor through which they could withdraw their troops and armor back into Germany for a last stand ub their homeland" (217). This is an emotional and logical appeal because it has the facts but not only that but also it's starting to sum up the events and how the Germans only can do so much now because the Americans are advancing and the war is coming to a end.

Quote
"We existed in an alien world of constant horror, misery, and death. There was no escape. We could be dead the next minute, and we had to live with that threat twenty-four hours a day" (205). I picked this quote because I thought it was really powerful and that it's not only true for this book but it also applies to the status quo as well. Any war the soldiers are just regular people and they have to live with this emotion or whatever you want to call it so that's why I picked this quote.

Theme
The theme for not only this section but the book as a whole would have to be the quote I picked. It's always present and it always applies so there's no real way to get around it. It's an interesting concept to think of and frightening as well.