Your FINAL DRAFT of the paper on "Rain" in All Quiet on the Western Front and A Farewell to Arms is due at the beginning of class.
If you do not bring this work to class, your grade will drop dramatically. I probably will not accept late work, unless there is a very good reason.
Bring in all rough drafts that led up to this paper--when in doubt--bring the draft to class.
This paper will have an introduction, two body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
See the notes below that we went over in class about writing conclusions.
From All Quiet on the Wstern Front:
"Behind us lay rainy weeks--grey sky, grey fluid earth, grey dying. If we go out, the rain at once soaks through our overcoat and clothing;--and we remain wet all the time we are in the line. We never get dry. Those who will wear high boots tie sand bags round the tops so that the mud does not pour in so fast. The rifles are caked, the uniforms caked, everything is fluid and dissolved, the earth one dripping, soaked, oily mass in which lie yellow pools with red spiral streams of blood and into which the dead, wounded, and survivors slowly sink down.
The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the child-like cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence.
Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we still live" (286-287).
