“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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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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of Commons in 1940‚ Winston Churchill once said “Victory at all costs‚ victory in spite of all terror‚ victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory‚ there is no survival.” Many historians as well as leaders argue that although the road to victory is strenuous and arduous‚ it often proves worthy in the end for victory has a direct correlation to survival. This proves true in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front‚ by Erich Maria Remarque. Paul‚ the protagonist goes to fight
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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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echoing through the night‚ imprinting the sharp noise in his ears. He could hear the wretched sounds of choking men gasping for breath‚ coughing up blood as they were gutted by the demonic metal of the invading savages. And Colbren knew that among all this‚ his father was lost somewhere in the melee. He stopped. Around him laid the bodies of comrades and friends‚ puddles of blood surrounding their corpses‚ their flesh blackened and charred. On the ground next to many their heads laid severed‚ visages
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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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Julia Chapman All Quiet on the Western Front Theme Graphic Organizer | Theme | Example | Pg # | Significance | 1. Nature of Power(How individuals control others) | “Under his orders I have scrubbed out the Corporals’ Mess with a tooth-brush.”“There’s a great deal of polishing being done. We are inspected at every turn. Everything that is torn is exchanged for new…the Kaiser is coming to review us. Hence all the inspections.” | 23201 | The Corporal is manipulating his power to get the men
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Peter then started walking towards the kitchen. Peter opened the door quickly. When he opened the door‚ he could see hundreds of ghostly figures all looking at him. That instant‚ Peter started to run. Their cries echoed his name behind him‚ their icy hands reaching towards him. Then‚ he saw a door marked with letters spelling “To Hell” across the camp. Peter quickly opened and slammed the steel
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Statistically speaking‚ World War I was the cause of over 17 million deaths and 20 million wounded. The youthful generation are innocent and ignorant soldiers‚ who believe that war is an adventure‚ easily getting killed as soon as they step a foot at the front-line. The “Lost Generation” was a term originated from a garage owner in a conversation with his employee that was witnessed by Gertrude Stein‚ which was later popularised by the American novelist‚ Ernest Hemingway‚ as an epigraph to his novel
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All Quiet of the Western Front: Movie vs. Book The book all Quiet of the Western Front demonstrates a clear similarity in regard to themes with it’s original movie. Although the reader and the audience of the movie can take different aspects of the theme due to the setting of the movie and the imagery used in the book. In fact the added scenarios in the movie had a different impact then in the book; for example‚ in the movie Paul was introduced as a schoolboy and through the setting of movie
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