All Quiet on the Western Front
Jordan Divens
Dr. Spicka
History 106 10:00 All Quiet on the Western Front not only brings you into the war scene and provides you with a vivid description of the war, but provides you with an opportunity to analyze and take in just how hard the war was on the soldiers who fought for their countries. This book brings you into the war scene and often times has you thinking about just how powerful a war can be on its soldiers. Not only does it depict the war but it brings its audience into a first person’s account of the war and their thoughts going through the war every step of the way. In the depiction on page 376 in our Human Record books it shows men playing and having fun with the guys. There are many things wrong with this description compared with the book. One of which is there is very little down time to do any leisurely activities in the war and often times you are stuck in your bunker engaged in combat. Another thing that this picture fails to show is that even if you do develop a comrade in the war one or both of you may be killed within a week or two in the war because it is such a dangerous place to be. The real warzone is a dangerous place and a horrible place to be. As described in the book “The graveyard is a mass of wreckage. Coffins and corpses lie strewn about. They have been killed once again; but each of them that was flung up saved one of us” (All Quiet, Pg 70-71). This is a passage from the book that describes a scene when the troops are taking protection in a graveyard in which they are under fire. This describes how the coffins and dead bodies are used for cover and actually save the lives of the soldiers. Many of the young recruits did not make it through the first few days of battle however the ones who survived were often times delusional and went insane. “He won’t listen to anything and hits out, his mouth us wet and pours out words, half choked, meaningless words. It is a case of claustrophobia, he feel as though he is
Dr. Spicka
History 106 10:00 All Quiet on the Western Front not only brings you into the war scene and provides you with a vivid description of the war, but provides you with an opportunity to analyze and take in just how hard the war was on the soldiers who fought for their countries. This book brings you into the war scene and often times has you thinking about just how powerful a war can be on its soldiers. Not only does it depict the war but it brings its audience into a first person’s account of the war and their thoughts going through the war every step of the way. In the depiction on page 376 in our Human Record books it shows men playing and having fun with the guys. There are many things wrong with this description compared with the book. One of which is there is very little down time to do any leisurely activities in the war and often times you are stuck in your bunker engaged in combat. Another thing that this picture fails to show is that even if you do develop a comrade in the war one or both of you may be killed within a week or two in the war because it is such a dangerous place to be. The real warzone is a dangerous place and a horrible place to be. As described in the book “The graveyard is a mass of wreckage. Coffins and corpses lie strewn about. They have been killed once again; but each of them that was flung up saved one of us” (All Quiet, Pg 70-71). This is a passage from the book that describes a scene when the troops are taking protection in a graveyard in which they are under fire. This describes how the coffins and dead bodies are used for cover and actually save the lives of the soldiers. Many of the young recruits did not make it through the first few days of battle however the ones who survived were often times delusional and went insane. “He won’t listen to anything and hits out, his mouth us wet and pours out words, half choked, meaningless words. It is a case of claustrophobia, he feel as though he is