He continues to drive, but then the deer, merely stunned, wakes up. Gordie grabs a crowbar and kills it, but then he becomes convinced that it is June he has just killed. taut (223) - Strained; tense. Sister Mary felt excited rising alone, her legs felt springy and lean, her body taut like a girl's. an orderly (229) An attendant who does routine, nonmedical work in a hospital. Mary Martin follows Gordie into the apple trees but losts him. The whole morning they were waiting for the orderlies and the tribal police to come, they heard him cry like a drowned person. to be/stay at somebody's beck and call (230) - Ready to comply with any wish or command. Lipsha is grateful for his Grandma... a smokescreen (232) - An action or statement used to conceal actual plans or intentions.; A disguise. to hanker after/for something (239) - To want someone or something; to long for someone or something.
Paul discerns from his sallow skin that Kemmerich will not live long. The men give some cigarettes to an orderly in return for his agreement to give Kemmerich a dose of morphine to ease his pain. Müller, reasoning that a one-legged man has no need for matching shoes, wants Kemmerich's boots for himself, but Paul discourages him from pressing the matter further. They will have to keep watch until Kemmerich dies and then take the boots before the orderlies steal them. The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces. Summary Paul recalls his life before the war. As a young student, he used to write poetry. Now, he feels empty and cynical, thinking that his short time as a soldier has taught him more hard lessons about life than a decade at school could. He has no interest in, or time for, poetry, and his parents now seem to him a hazy and unreliable memory
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