All Quiet On the Western Front‚ written by author Erich Maria Remarque‚ takes readers through a series of events in which the main character‚ Paul Baumer‚ ends up eventually being a true shattered‚ broken man. Remarque takes readers through Baumer’s transformation‚ as he starts out a hometown‚ naive‚ schoolboy who enjoys reading plays and eating potato-cakes‚ and is changed to that truly broke and shattered man as he is struggling to survive World War I on the front. Prior to the war‚ Paul’s schoolmaster
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display‚ on a daily basis in the concentration camp is overwhelming. The risk of jeopardizing one’s life is a daily tribulation. As Elie watches his father being beaten with an iron bar by Idek‚ their German-Jewish Kapo‚ he does nothing. “I watched it all happening without moving. I kept silent. In fact I thought of stealing away in order to not suffer the blows.” Elie could have helped his father but he knew that if he did he would also be senselessly beaten‚ essentially putting his life in jeopardy
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of war affect an individual? War always takes a toll on the individual and leaves drastic changes to the human soul; this loss of innocence is a recurring motif and major theme throughout the novel. Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels of all time. The story follows the protagonist‚ Paul Baumer‚ a young‚ artistic boy who enlists into the German army in World War I and challenges the false glorification of war. Throughout the story Paul repeatedly faces horrifying
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All Quiet on the Western Front is a historical fiction novel written by German author Erich Maria Remarque in the late 1920s. It is narrated by Paul Baumer‚ a young man who joined the army voluntarily after listening a patriotic speech from his teacher‚ Kantorek. Paul shared his experiences and stories during the time he fought in the German army on the French front in World War I. Paul Baumer is a nineteen years old high school student. He and several of his friends from school were encouraged
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Christine Barna Date 2/29/12 Per. 4 All Quiet on the Western Front Essay All Quiet on the Western Front is a historical novel‚ written by Erich Maria Remarque. It is set during the World War I between France and Germany. The book explores the lives and deaths of men who fought the war and how it tore them apart. The story is told through the eye of Paul Baumer‚ who enlists with his class mated in the German army. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm‚ not expecting the hardships and despair
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and his officer because their morals in war may contain different beliefs. Radical beliefs that are forced upon the lower leveled soldiers by the senior position frequently causes soldiers to face obstacles that they are unprepared for. While the positions and experiences that these soldier’s face are very different‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ and "A Warrior’s Moral Dilemma" display similar perceptions of how a righteous war created by harmful senior leadership caused soldier’s to feel betrayal
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animals. He uses animalistic imagery to do this. The claustrophobic recruit referred to in this quote can’t stand being in the trench for another second. He begins to listen to reason‚ but then‚ his emotions get the better of him. Being out on the front has caused the recruit to act differently than he otherwise would have. The stress and fear caused him to snap. 3. “If your own father came over with them you would not hesitate to fling a bomb into him.” Ch.6P. This quote relates to the theme
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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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All Quiet On The Western Front : Quotes KEY ; Quotes‚ Source‚ My opinion/own words. Key words Lost Generation – (young boys leaving school and going to war for their country) (Page 85) ‘’That’s what set us apart and made our parents’ world a little difficult for us to understand; because somehow we were always gently bound up with that world‚ submissive to it all‚ and the smallest thing led us onwards along the path of eternity. Perhaps it was just the privilege of our youth – we were not
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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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