Essay: All Quiet on the Western Front An anti-war novel often portrays many of the bad aspects and consequences of war. Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel set in the First World War that is against war. Remarque describes the terrible reality of the war‚ focusing on the horrors and involved. The novel portrays an anti-war perspective as it brings up issues about the brutality of war‚ the narrator’s change of attitude towards war‚ the futility of war and
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form. The novel was titled All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque published this novel to show of a generation of men who‚ “even though they may have escaped its shells‚ were destroyed by the war." This novel discusses the struggles young men had to go through during the time of war. Although they were still very young‚ all youth had been ripped away from them. They had no choice but to be hard‚ stern‚ and brave. The main character in the novel is Paul Baumer. Paul enlists in the Army at nineteen
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soldier’s mind until his last breath. For Remarque‚ the author of All Quiet on the Western Front‚ World War I leaves behind a haunting reminder each day with not a single gruesome detail left out. The novel beautifully expresses Remarque’s personal challenges faced during his time in the war directly through the protagonist Paul. The ghastly
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Paul Baumer died on the most peaceful‚ beautiful day of the war. After surviving the horrible events on the front‚ the last man of his class died on that day of all days. Erich Maria Remarque tells a remarkable World War I story through the eyes of the soldier Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front. In this novel‚ Paul faces life in the roughness of trench warfare. Remarque explores the effects of war on both an entire generation and on the individual and dives into the connection between
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The Horrors of War on the Front In “All Quiet on the Western Front” Erich Maria Remarque a German veteran describes the harsh events that happened in WWI. The main character Paul Baumer narrates his story of what happened on the Western Front. Paul and several friends decided to join the army right out of high school at the young age of 19. In the beginning‚ Paul and his comrades were excited to join the army because they had been given speeches about patriotism‚ in time they realized that war
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Jenna Long Mrs. Schumann English 8 November 2012 All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front is a very dramatic movie about how WWI affected a young group of soldiers. The war affected the soldier’s whole self; it affected them emotionally‚ physically‚ and mentally. War can hurt anyone’s emotions. Being exposed to such terrible things can really change a person. When the soldiers got to their training camps they were excited and eager to fight for their country
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"All Quiet On The Western Front: War and Authority Corruption" It is always easier to say how you would respond to war while looking upon it as an outsider who has seen little outside of movies and pictures. We tell ourselves "I could never imagine doing that"‚ or "How could any human be so corrupt?" That is what we say‚ but I wonder what those same men said just prior to their war time experience. Surely they would not follow the same path that so many before them had‚ choosing to
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Remarque in his novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” explores war itself as the enemy of German soldiers in World war 1. He achieves this by suggesting that W.W.1 created a lost generation and that this generation felt betrayed by their leaders. Remarque depicts the atrocities and inhumanities that war introduces soldiers to as well as the way it both facilitates and destroys camaraderie. Para 1. Remarque uses symbolism to explore how World War One created a lost generation of German youth. They
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relied upon‚ or their hearts turn to stone and they lose the ability to distinguish right from wrong” (193). This quote was made by the elf Arya while she was consoling Eragon on feeling guilty about all the enemies he had killed. This quote was said when Eragon and Arya were traveling back to the Varden and just after the pair had escaped from a group of Galbatorix’s soldiers‚ but unfortunately they had to kill all of the soldiers so their whereabouts would not be discovered. This passage stands out
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destroyed the lives of countless men that suffered the rest of their lives from traumatic events that stated place in WWI. Erich Remarque brilliantly brings the tragedy into focus for the new generations in his historical novel All Quiet on the Western Front a book about physical and mental battles fought along the trenches of WWI. The story revolves around the early nineteen hundreds a group of young German men who will all join the war after being urged by one of their high school teachers to pursue
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