sure really stands out in your mind. After reading All Quiet on The Western Front‚ two people instantly jump to mind. Of the few heroes in All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Paul and Kat are the most notable because of their leadership and responsibility. As Paul progresses through war‚ his skin becomes thick‚ he begins to look more and more like a leader. He treats new comrades with respect and encouragement. After surviving an enemy bombardment‚ Paul attempts to comfort a startled newbie. (P.60) “That’s
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best‚ self mutilation”( Jerome Crabb). Paul Bäumer‚ the protagonist of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque fulfills his understanding of Jerome Crabb’s quote after experiencing everything war has to offer. In the novel‚ Paul truly experiences what being in war can physically and mentally do to not only a man‚ but their families as well. It is apparent that Erich Maria Remarque had Paul Bäumer face various horrifying situations while at the front to make a powerful statement against
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All Quiet on the Western Front is by Erich Maria Remarque. This book was an extraordinary war story. Remarque uses excellent words and phrases to describe crucial details of the book. Remarque had first hand experience because he was a German in World War I. So he expresses his opinions through Paul the main character of the book. One of the strongest themes in this book is that war makes man inhuman. From the author’s point of view soldiers was often compared to various nonliving objects that
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In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front the meaning of desensitization is manifested through the ability to have a tender heart is vilified. The brutally inhumane experiences the participants face demonstrate how war does not allow for and eminently discourages having a tender heart. The experience of war tends to strip a person of their humanity and natural human empathy and when the realization of such becomes palpable there is a desperate want or need to feel something
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how the soldiers felt emotionally‚ physically‚ and mentally. When reading the book‚ All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque‚ one can further understand the true sadness‚ physical pain‚ and mental exhaustion that the German soldiers actually went through. This changes our perspective about the war because we can oversee our American bias and understand the pain on both sides. When Paul says‚ “We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through‚” it shows how although there
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war” (Remarque Preface). All Quiet on the Western Front‚ written by Erich Maria Remarque‚ tells a story of a young soldier‚ as he and his friends fight for the German army during World War I. The novel is narrated from the point of view of Paul Bäumer. He is nineteen years old and‚ like many of his classmates‚ he joins the German army. The story follows as they fight through the horrid experiences of trench warfare. Unlike many other war novels‚ All Quiet on the Western Front does not attempt to romanticize
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The novels All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and It Happened to Nancy
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state of soldiers fighting in the war. In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ a world renowned war novel by Erich Maria Remarque‚ the epigraph states that this novel “will try simply to tell of a generation of men who‚ even though they may have escaped shells‚ were destroyed by the war.” Staying true to this quote‚ Remarque tells of the horrors of World War I and fittingly describes the effects that war has on humans through the eyes of the protagonist‚ Paul Bäumer. In his epigraph Remarque says‚ “this book
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All Quiet on the Western Front vs. Postmodernism There are many novels that recollect various periods throughout the decades. The novel All Quiet on the Western Front is one of these. The Author Erich Maria Remarque uses a fictional character named Paul Baumer to install feeling‚ thoughts‚ and actions that the German soldiers went through during World War I specifically battling on the Western front. This novel gives a historical outlook on how the war affected these soldiers during and after the
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All Quiet on the Western Front and The Sufferings of Young Werther: a comparison. All Quiet on the Western Front and The Sufferings of Young Werther are books that have impacted literature in ways no one ever dreamed. All Quiet on the Western Front was one of the first popular books that were written from the perspective of a solider that was on the German side. This allowed for a whole new side of the war to be seen. It also showed how the soldiers struggled to cope with the world around them and
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