Summary Of The Train Was On Time
The Train was on time by Heinrich Boll: A Critical Review
The train was on time is the fictionalised version of the life of a German soldier Andreas. Heinrich Böll is a German writer of fictional historical novels. His series of books are mainly set up in Nazi Germany. The book was originally written in German. It is translated into English by Leila Vennewitz.
The book is set up in Nazi Germany. The book is a story about Andreas a German soldier who has been posted to the eastern front and now on his way to Poland. He boards the train from Paris (France) to Przemyśl (Poland) via Lvov. While on his journey he feels he will eventually die after this journey because as Germany as already lost the war and he will become the victim of the war. During his journey he makes friends who were the various soldiers of the Nazi era as the train on which he as a troop train. He eats, drinks and shares his experiences with other soldiers and so do other soldiers share with him them and portrays the brutish life of a German soldier He has an idea on his journey that his death is going to come soon and he portrays that this soon cannot be quantifies as claims ‘soon’ to be evil . Eventually they …show more content…
This book of Heinrich Böll says that it is 1944 and Germany have already lost the war whereas “At the beginning of 1944, many Germans still expected to win the war” , apart from this, the book tallies perfectly with the time in which it has been set up. Andreas praying secretly for the Jews portrays this. The author at the same time shows the condition of women as sex workers which is also correct as during Nazi Germany women were forced to have sex with the soldiers. Also the book talks about the mobile killing squads called the stromtroopers which can also be found in the history of Germany. Therefore I conclude that the book has been set up quite effectively keeping the historical period in
The train was on time is the fictionalised version of the life of a German soldier Andreas. Heinrich Böll is a German writer of fictional historical novels. His series of books are mainly set up in Nazi Germany. The book was originally written in German. It is translated into English by Leila Vennewitz.
The book is set up in Nazi Germany. The book is a story about Andreas a German soldier who has been posted to the eastern front and now on his way to Poland. He boards the train from Paris (France) to Przemyśl (Poland) via Lvov. While on his journey he feels he will eventually die after this journey because as Germany as already lost the war and he will become the victim of the war. During his journey he makes friends who were the various soldiers of the Nazi era as the train on which he as a troop train. He eats, drinks and shares his experiences with other soldiers and so do other soldiers share with him them and portrays the brutish life of a German soldier He has an idea on his journey that his death is going to come soon and he portrays that this soon cannot be quantifies as claims ‘soon’ to be evil . Eventually they …show more content…
This book of Heinrich Böll says that it is 1944 and Germany have already lost the war whereas “At the beginning of 1944, many Germans still expected to win the war” , apart from this, the book tallies perfectly with the time in which it has been set up. Andreas praying secretly for the Jews portrays this. The author at the same time shows the condition of women as sex workers which is also correct as during Nazi Germany women were forced to have sex with the soldiers. Also the book talks about the mobile killing squads called the stromtroopers which can also be found in the history of Germany. Therefore I conclude that the book has been set up quite effectively keeping the historical period in