All Quiet On The Western Front Graphic Organizer Analysis
Julia Chapman All Quiet on the Western Front Theme Graphic Organizer | Theme | Example | Pg # | Significance | 1. Nature of Power(How individuals control others) | “Under his orders I have scrubbed out the Corporals’ Mess with a tooth-brush.”“There’s a great deal of polishing being done. We are inspected at every turn. Everything that is torn is exchanged for new…the Kaiser is coming to review us. Hence all the inspections.” | 23201 | The Corporal is manipulating his power to get the men below him to do small useless tasks. He is showing his dominance to the others.The soldiers are being put to their best standards and looking as sharp as they can. Everyone is making a big fuss and cleaning, making sure there isn’t a hair out of line, all for one man. Clearly one man with an incredible amount of power clearly. | 2. Dehumanization brought on by war | “The doctor passes by Kemmerich’s bed without once looking at him.”“Our life alternates between billets and the front. We have almost grown accustomed to it; war is the cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis,
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Alienation of a generation—the “Lost Generation” (disillusionment) | “Parting from my friend Albert Kropp was very hard. But a man gets used to that sort of thing in the army.” “And the men will not understand us…we will grow older, a few will adapt themselves, some others will merely submit, and most will be bewildered;-the years will pass by and in the end, we shall fall into ruin. | 269294 | Paul has lost so much throughout the war, and his generation of people has decresed infinitly. They are losing man after man, and those who aren’t lost will not come back. He has suffered so much loss he has become used to it. The men who have been fighting and survived, have still lost their lives. They were so young coming into the war that they couldn’t get their lives started, and now it is too late to begin. It will be hard for them to adapt to life after war, this is all they have ever known.
Alienation of a generation—the “Lost Generation” (disillusionment) | “Parting from my friend Albert Kropp was very hard. But a man gets used to that sort of thing in the army.” “And the men will not understand us…we will grow older, a few will adapt themselves, some others will merely submit, and most will be bewildered;-the years will pass by and in the end, we shall fall into ruin. | 269294 | Paul has lost so much throughout the war, and his generation of people has decresed infinitly. They are losing man after man, and those who aren’t lost will not come back. He has suffered so much loss he has become used to it. The men who have been fighting and survived, have still lost their lives. They were so young coming into the war that they couldn’t get their lives started, and now it is too late to begin. It will be hard for them to adapt to life after war, this is all they have ever known.