Throughout the book “all quiet on the western front” the author develops a theme that involves how the war effects the men and also that the war destroys everything making them risking each other’s lives in able to survive. In Chapter nine of “all quiet on the western front” the narrator Paul Baumer gets involved in a hand-to-hand combat with a French soldier. This is the climax of the novel “all quiet on the western front”. This situation impacted Baumer because it was a kill or be killed situation
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All Quiet On the Western Front‚ written by Erich Maria Remarque‚ is a war novel based on World War 1 with the German/French front. In this novel‚ Remarque applies the changes the war makes on the soldiers a probable and dependable theme throughout the novel that plays a climactic role in the growth of the characters. A soldier must fight against the physical and mental threats every second on the battlefield. Throughout the novel a young man named Paul Baumer‚ a 19 year old german soldier‚ narrates
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All Quiet on the Western Front Paul Baumer leaves for the western front a young boy‚ but as All Quiet on the Western Front goes on‚ Paul becomes more of a soulless soldier. Multiple events while fighting for Germany caused Paul to become this way. He began pushing away his family‚ friends‚ everyone‚ everything. This was a technique he used to survive. He cut off all emotions to become the best possible soldier he could be. When Paul and his friends signed up to go overseas‚ and fight for Germany
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All Quiet on the Western Front At the start of the 20th Century‚ the world was engaged in a catastrophic battle known as World War 1. During this time questions arose over the true nature of war. Authors such as Siegfried Sassoon and Erich Maria Remarque step out to introduce a different perspective of war through literacy‚ an outlook which many people in their time were oblivious to. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is considered to be “the greatest war novel of all time”
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All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front Written by Erich Maria Remarque is a novel about young men who are fighting in the German army on the French front in World War I. The story expresses life in the war from the view point of Paul Baumer a young German soldier fighting for his life in the war. Throughout the novel‚ Remarque expresses vivid details based on his own experiences at war. “During World War I‚ Remarque was conscripted into the army at the age of 18. On June 12
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In “All quiet on the Western Front”‚ Paul Baumer says that war is a dehumanizing experience‚ however‚ there are many examples in this book that prove otherwise. Paul says he knows nothing of life but “despair‚ death‚ fear‚ and a fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow”(263). War‚ however cruel it may seem‚ actually makes soldiers more human. During the time Paul spent at training camp‚ Paul made “friends” with the Russians of the other side of the fence. Paul shared his cigarettes
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also save them from themselves. All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque is a testament of Paul Bäumer. He and seven classmates enlist in World War I. They experience and witness unspeakable violence becoming soldiers. More violence than anyone should ever see. It corrupts most of the soldier’s minds because of the trauma that they have faced. Although war dehumanized many of the young men‚ war in many ways made Paul Bäumer more human. In chapter six‚ Paul witnessed the worst
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In the autumn of 1918‚ Paul Bäumer‚ a 20-year-old German soldier‚ contemplates his future: "Let the months and years come‚ they can take nothing from me‚ they can take nothing anymore. I am so alone and so without hope that I can confront them without fear" (Chapter 12). These final‚ melancholy thoughts occur just before his young and untimely death. In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Erich Maria Remarque creates Paul Bäumer to represent a whole generation of men who are known to history as the "lost
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the months and years come‚ they can take nothing from me‚ they can take nothing more. I am so alone‚ and so without hope that I can confront them without fear” (295). These last few thoughts happen right before this soldier‚ Paul Baumer‚ dies. In the book All Quiet On the Western Front‚ Erich Maria Remarque creates the character of Paul Baumer in order to illustrate a generation full of men who are well known throughout our history‚ of what we all know of‚ the “Lost Generation.” About eight million
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At age nineteen‚ Paul Bäumer and his classmates enlist in the German army of World War I. His elders constantly pushed him to sign up for war‚ as serving his nation was seen as the greatest honor of all. People like his old schoolmaster convinced him and his classmates that war was an honor and constantly romanticized the idea of fighting for your country. Since all these ideas of defending the German pride were indoctrinated into his head‚ Paul absent mindedly followed along without questioning
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