Die In Bed Chapter by Chapter Chapter One Montreal, Quebec - Setting Dilapidated, squalid red brick houses Heavy dour of stale booze and women is in the air Sleeping in a barn-like bunk room "The room is fouled with the doors of dissipation. " They are all recruits batting to go to the war "Men are hauled out of there bunks and strapped into their equipment. Main :hereafter is only 18 The people of the city celebrate the departure of the battalion with fireworks, Omen are hysterical A random girl kisses the protagonist Ђ He likes the confusion of the war, heroes, music, fireworks, the kiss of the girl. 'She is the last link between what I am leaving and the war. " The protagonist :hints of running away with the girl.
They are hustled onto the train and taken off war.Chapter Two Winding their way through the muddy communication trench "In the dark we ;tumble against the sides of the trench and tear our hands and clothing on the bits embedded barbed wire that runs through the earth here as though it were a {geographical deposit. " Fry keeps slipping into holes in the ground, Brown and the rotating fish him out and he wants them to let him lie there and he will come on The Sergeant pretty much forces him to keep going. Eater. They arrive at their positions at midnight. Ђ Protagonist and Clearly talk about ways they could make the trench more :unforgettable.
They are on sentry duty. Protagonist gets tired and begins to see the wire posts on the battlefield move :awards him He begins to doze The German's launch a mercenaries attack, the trench rocks and sways, mud and ? Earth leap into the air They try to burrow into the ground like frightened rats irritations nose starts bleeding from the force of the detonations It stops then ;tarts again. "The air screams and howls like an insane woman. "Again we throw ourselves :ace downward on the bottom of the trench and grovel like savages before this semolina frenzy. " Protagonist begins to pray. "It makes no difference whether it is Sunday or Monday.
It is merely another day - day on which one may die. " The attack smashed their section of the trench. A sniper snot TOT Brownie's enamel Wendell en was meaning Tort ten latrine - toilet We are supposed to be resting, but rest is impossible; we are being eaten alive by Going insane with scratching Chapter Three On rest for the third time in a little peasant village. Ђ Large barn with a gaping -of. Other battalions have rested there and have used the roof planks as fuel.
Clark, the captain doesn't make life easy Brown is tall and awkward and always stumbles into things; this is why Clark 'kicks on him. Only married man in the battalion; got married two weeks before :hey left Montreal. "We have learned who our enemies are - the lice, some of our officers and death. " They never refer to the German's as the enemy. "This is war; there is so much misery, heartaches, agony, and nothing can be done about it.Better to sit here and drink the sour, hard wine and try to forget.
" "They :cake everything from us: our lives, our blood, our hearts; even the few lousy hours of -est., they take those too. Our Job is to give, and theirs is to take...
" Chapter Four "The tree's here are skeletons holding stubs of stark, shell-amputated arms :awards the sky. " Fifth day on the front line, one more day and they get to rest. The soaked earth here is nothing but a thin covering for the putrescence which lies Underneath; it smells like a city garbage dump in mid-August. Carrying on has Seen drilled into the soldier's heads. There is a German sniper right near the :ranch and because some of the trench has been blown apart by a bomb blast, if one 'f the soldiers stands up the sniper will shoot him down, so they are all on their ands and knee's until nightfall when they can fix the trench safely.
"The snipers -file cracks and we flop down groveling in the muddy bottom of the trench.
