Question

What event or specific lines of dialogue propel the action forward in “The Christmas Truce”? In your answer be sure to include the following:

A specific event or line of dialogue

Include specific story elements (internal conflict, external conflict, character, rising/falling action, climax, resolution)

The effect of the event or line of dialogue

Answer 1

Answer: The Christmas truce was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War around Christmas 1914. The truce occurred five months after hostilities had begun.

The British brought a ball from the trenches, and soon a lively game ensued,' wrote schoolteacher Lieutenant Kurt Zehmisch, of the 134th Saxons, in his diary. 'How marvellous, how wonderful, yet how strange it was. The British officers felt the same way about it.

On 24 May 1915, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) and troops of the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli agreed to a 9-hour truce to retrieve and bury their dead, during which opposing troops "exchang(ed) smiles and cigarettes".

Answer 2

Answer: The Christmas truce was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War around Christmas 1914. The truce occurred five months after hostilities had begun.

The British brought a ball from the trenches, and soon a lively game ensued,' wrote schoolteacher Lieutenant Kurt Zehmisch, of the 134th Saxons, in his diary. 'How marvellous, how wonderful, yet how strange it was. The British officers felt the same way about it.

On 24 May 1915, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) and troops of the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli agreed to a 9-hour truce to retrieve and bury their dead, during which opposing troops "exchang(ed) smiles and cigarettes".