All 3 Uses of
therefore
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- At the head of the queue of course were the hungriest—little Albert Kropp, the clearest thinker among us and therefore only a lance-corporal; Müller, who still carries his school textbooks with him, dreams of examinations, and during a bombardment mutters propositions in physics; Leer, who wears a full beard and has a preference for the girls from officers' brothels.†
p. 3.2therefore = for that reason
- Therefore Müller is already on the watch.†
p. 21.3 *
- This dead man is bound up with my life, therefore I must do everything, promise everything in order to save myself; I swear blindly that I mean to live only for his sake and his family, with wet lips I try to placate him—and deep down in me lies the hope that I may buy myself off in this way and perhaps even get out of this; it is a little stratagem: if only I am allowed to escape, then I will see to it.†
p. 225.5
Definition:
for that reason (what follows is so because of what was just said)