Book review on All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front‚ a war novel‚ is a fictional novel by Erich Maria Remarque‚ a German veteran of World War I. The book was wrote in 1929 and has had two movies based on the book. Erich Maria Remarque was conscripted at the age of 18‚ and on the 12th June 1917 he was transferred to the Western Front. This may have provided Erich Maria Remarque with the idea that was behind All Quiet on the Western Front. I think it was a book written to
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Would you go to war if it is going to injure you mentally‚ physically‚ and emotionally? In All Quiet On The Western Front‚ a soldier named Paul goes to war with his friends. They are really close but at the end of the war they don’t all come out of the are. All Quiet On The Western Front by Enrich Maria Remarque tells us how soldiers can be injured mentally‚ physically‚ and emotionally. The war can affect you mentally because it can change how you see the world. “Then at last i stand before the brown
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All Quiet on the western Front The earth‚ as in the soil beneath our feet‚ is taken for granted every single day‚ but never by a soldier on the front lines. Erich Maria Remarque explains this through his character Paul Bäumer in the excerpt of his novel All Quiet on the Western Front. Paul is explaining the effects that war on the front can leave with a soldier‚ the hopelessness‚ instinct of an animal‚ and appreciation for things as simple as the earth that we walk on. While explaining these effects
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Paul The novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front is the harshest story about war ever written. This novel was written by Erich Maria Remarque‚ based on his real life experience about World War 1. It tells a story about a group of companions at war and how they live their life everyday there. After analyzing the novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ readers realized that almost all the characters were either very noble or not noble at all. The one character that stood out of all the character for
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Setting (DESCRIBE the time period‚ geographical location‚ historical/social context) The setting in All Quiet on the Western Front takes place around the battlefield of the war‚ mainly the trenches. It was dark‚ morbid‚ chaotic and hopeless. Trench life was dreadful according to Paul. There was so much blood‚ mud and clamor from the blasts and bombs. The constant pounding of those bombs lasted for days‚ rumbling in those
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All Quiet on the Western Front One of the main themes in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is Futility of War. The novel takes place during the Great War and takes place in France. Paul Baumer is the main character in the book along with many of his friends. In the book the theme of futility of war appears in the beginning‚ middle and end of the novel and Baumer slowly becomes more aware of what war is really like. In the beginning Baumer enters the war as a recruit and
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and All Quiet on the Western Front’ in terms of the: · Boys’ attitude to war · Reasons for enlistment · Experiences on the front How do these change their attitude to war? What does this tell you about the similarities and differences the Australian’s and German’s experiences? Analysis of Major Characters Paul Bäumer As the novel’s narrator and protagonist‚ Paul is the central figure in All Quiet on the Western Front and serves as the mouthpiece for Remarque’s meditations about war. Throughout
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All Quiet on the Western Front Is a Novel told from the perspective of Nineteen year old Paul Bäumer‚ a German Soldier who joins the war effort on the French front during World War I. Bäumer and a few friends get the idea to join the military after listening to patriotic speeches from their previous teacher‚ however quickly forsake these ideologies after experiencing the horrors of warfare on the front. After two weeks of horrific combat‚ a staggering eighty men of the original 150-man company return
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In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque‚ Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen‚ and Route March by Charles Sorley the notion of the abyss must be overcome in order to survive. The notion of the abyss takes over and threatens Paul’s life. He discovers the abyss when he meets the Russian Prisoners. Paul states "A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends" (Remarque 193-194). Paul can only survive the war by killing
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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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