“My Last Days” We reached the trench. I was a soldier fighting in the trenches of World War 1 in France. My squad and I hopped into the trench and muddy water splashed into our faces. “Do you think fighting in the trenches is as bad as it sounds?‚” I asked Bobby‚ my best friend. “I think so. Some old dude back home told me he shot his foot off to get out of the trenches‚”said Bobby. Wow‚ I thought‚ he must be dumber than a bag of rocks. Since no one was shooting at us‚ I started to dig out a
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1. The story is narrated in the third person point of view. Aside from dialogue‚ the story does not use "I." Instead‚ it uses his name‚ or refers to the character as "him" or "he." 2. The story starts off as third person objective. It’s first told as how someone would observe from afar. The narrator makes assumptions‚ such as in the first paragraph of part one‚ "It did not appear to be the duty of these two men to know what was occurring ." In the third paragraph‚ the narrator is describing
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thoughts and dreams. Within five weeks‚ keeping alert on strong coffee and tobacco‚ Remarque composed Im Westen Nichts Neues ( All Quiet on the Western Front) which sold a million and a half once published and was translated into twenty-nine languages. His contemporaries were his way of exorcising his own postwar trauma by recreating the amorphous hell of the western front. Because Remarque was a sincere patriot‚ he was unable to ignore Germany’s attempts to start another war. Josef Goebbles‚ Hitler’s
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visions of wealth‚ vast expansions territory‚ and above all‚ the ability to do whatever one wants whenever he wants. And those who thirst for it will seek it through whatever means necessary‚ whether it be a fistfight or a war. Necessity is the basic derivation for all hostility and aggression; therefore‚ power‚ and its corruption‚ is the source of all war. Such corruption is exemplified in the World War I novel‚ All Quiet On the Western Front‚ by Erich Remarque‚ through the eyes of the platoon leader
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can‚ only as one who has seen its brutality‚ its stupidity.” After surviving a countless battles‚ many only perceive it as a curse on humanity and a complete loss of human lives. This concept is depicted through Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and Thomas Hardy’s “The Man He Killed.” Remarque describes this theme with Paul Baumer‚ a German soldier killing others in order to stay alive. As he becomes war hardened by combat itself‚ he begins to be aware of warfare’s worthless
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Should All Quiet on the Western Front Be Taught In School? War is hard. Losing family members isn’t the easiest thing in the world. Not knowing what could have been of them in the real world out of war. Having to learn about these things is hard‚ but I believe that it is something that we should learn. Learning about all these things teaches about the way that war messes with your mind. It makes you think of the things in ways you shouldn’t think of them. It teaches us what we would have to go
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War in Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front "I am young‚ I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair‚ death‚ fear‚ and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another‚ and in silence‚ unknowingly‚ foolishly‚ obediently‚ innocently slay one another (263)." Powerful changes result from horrifying experiences. Paul Baumer‚ the protagonists of Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front utters these words signifying
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Today I was walking around during camp because I was bored but then realised I should tell a story because that was what I was good at. No one wanted to listen to my story so I decided to write to you. I wanted you to check up on my wife and see if she is doing alright and also try to check up on my mom and dad. I remember when you told me I should join the armed forces because it brought great honor to me and my family so I enlisted and trust me being here really is not that much of an honor. We
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“Paths of Glory” and “All Quiet On The Western Front” Contrasts and Comparisons By Stew Harney “Paths of Glory” and “All Quiet on the Western Front” are two different stories about the 1st world war. They are similar and different in their own ways. Many children born in North America usually grow up seeing war movies from the America’s point of view. This is different in Paths of Glory and All Quiet on the Western Front. These films/novels display how European countries fought this
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Only two (2) percent of the Russian men who were born in the 1920s survived the end of the war. In other words‚ an entire generation of men had disappeared by 1945. As a result‚ there were villages and small communities where the only inhabitants were women. It is very likely that Stalin invented the idea to create inseminate groups of the surviving‚ sexually active and usable men. These groups of six to ten travelled through the Russian countryside‚ involving the villages around Moscow as well as
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