twt

Question 1

SCENE 1 SUMMARY

Answer 1

1931 editors office
Roberts tries to get a job-he has little money ‘cheap suit’ and finds it hard to get a job.
the deputy editor has no respect for soldiers or interest in the war.

Question 2

SCENE 2 SUMMARY

Answer 2

basement in Ypres during the war, sound of constant shell fire
we meet Pearson, Henderson, smith, yates, branes and Dodd

hate the Germans

lightheartedness

find the printing press- create the name

Question 3

SCENE 3

Answer 3

in Roberts den a fortified cellar
They come up with wipers times
and we find out the war isn’t moving ‘ten yard in the last six months’
comedy sketch about advertising for twt

Question 4

SCENE 4

Answer 4

empty print room -first printing of the newspaper- the first page. the men are very pleased.
we again see lots of humor throughout the scene

Question 5

SCENE 5

Answer 5

at HQ in Arras we are introduced to Howfield and Mitford who are higher ups that find out about twt
Howfield doesn’t understand humor and is angry about it- wants the men to be shot.

Question 6

SCENE 6

Answer 6

in a trench trying to fix a collapsed trench
find out Dodd is young
obsessed with the paper
we see how paper and poetry are used as escapism
hear the Germans singing a hate song

Question 7

SCENE 7

Answer 7

fantasy scene in Robert’s head in cloth hall.
making fun of war and Germans
we hear a song of propaganda, and the last stanza is regret of listening to it.
hear the voice of a woman singing with death semantics

Question 8

SCENE 8

Answer 8

news from the Homefront- hear their struggles
‘mood turned thoughtful’
journalists get the mens division wrong
gets inspection from howfield
printer gets blown up

Question 9

SCENE 9

Answer 9

ibn a trench using the printer to patch up the trench.
talk about what they did before the war
tyles goes to hellfire corner to get the new printer

Question 10

SCENE 10

Answer 10

Roberts fantasy imagination.
gas attack Roberts staggering and cant get his gas mask on. someone helps him