By Day 1 of the week, your instructor will post a discussion question. Respond to your instructor’s question and to your classmates’ responses. The goal of this discussion forum is to have a single conversation about the topic, not a series of 30 separate conversations. This means that every post should be in response to another post. Only start a new thread if you want to address a whole different theme within the topic, and only post after first carefully reading what others have written. Do not repeat what your classmates have already said, and do not ignore them if they ask you questions. Try to keep the conversation moving forward. Attend discussion on at least four separate days, and post a total of 800 words. There is no required word count for individual posts as long as all your posts together total 800 words. Nor is there a minimum number of posts, but you must post on at least four separate days by Day 7. Carefully review the for the criteria that will be used to evaluate this Discussion Thread. Responses are listed below in the following order: response, author and the date and time the response is pos
ted. (an instructor response) Week 3 Discussion Instructor Umansky 6/3/2016 1:34:21 PM Reading: , (Ch. 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 12 (p. 1-8, 19-28, 51-86, and 109-110 in the online edition) Discussion: In the preface to , novelist Erich Maria Remarque says, “This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the way.” Throughout his novel, Remarque emphasizes the way that war transformed its participants and made it impossible for them to return to normal life. Hence historian Modris Eksteins argues that “ is more a comment on the postwar mind, on the postwar view of the war, than an attempt to reconstruct the reality of the trench experience” (see his essay “Memory” in , p. 142 — available in Ashford’s library, through the “Literary Reference Center”). Bottom of Form