War is good and bad‚ beneficial and pointless‚ but above all other things‚ immensely inhumane. Man created war‚ and with our controversial human nature egged it on. “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque is a war novel that shows the war experience and how war changes people. During the time spent at the front and at rest the soldier is turned from human to inhumane. They are taken away from the normal human emotion and placed into a state of being more animalistic and superhuman
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he was in the hospital. After a year in the hospital he returned to Osnabruck for further training. The war had ended before Witt 2 he returned to active duty. After the war he changed his middle name to Maria after his mother. Remark went back to college after the war. He graduated and started his two-year substitute training in 1919. Finally he got bored teaching‚ and did different odd jobs such as‚ playing organ on Sundays at an insane asylum‚ working for a tombstone firm‚ working as
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In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Erich Maria Remarque describes World War I through the eyes of a soldier‚ Paul. It goes into details about combat‚ food shortage‚ going on leave‚ and the life at home. While reading this book‚ I couldn’t help but notice that I would get nervous in some chapters about what would happen next. The author goes into so much detail‚ giving the reader that first person feeling while he/she is reading the book. Remarque also describes the horrific and unthinkable
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very strong relationship between Paul and Kat‚ it is described in a way that friendship between them is silent‚ unlike the war which is totally opposite. Remarque shows a very strong effect of war on the soldier and also on the family member back home‚ the civilians of home front. Remarque shows how Paul returning home has made
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many moral decisions brought on by the war. Paul and Kat struggled on what to do when they come up to the Fair Haired Recruit; latter Paul stuck with Kropp though his injuries to make sure he stayed safe. When Paul was on leave‚ he longed to be with back with his fellow soldiers‚ because being at home was complicated. In the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque‚ Paul’s life before the war was that of a school boy who had a healthy relationships and dreams. Paul says his future has been stolen
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Every day I get up and go to the temple to pray and worship my God. This particular morning I got up and realized that I was running a little late and I had to rush out of my house and after spending the proper time with God I had to get all the way back down to Jericho for this festival. As a priest I was dressed up in an array of festive traditional attire that we were required to wear. I had to get there in a hurry and I knew if I took the normal road I would be late and It wasn’t good the priest
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the war. When Paul and his fellow soldiers have just been under attack by the French and the men have been exposed to the true horror of the war‚ Paul observes his own comrade being carried off after the attack. “Haie Westhus is carried off with his back torn open; you can see the lung throbbing through the wound.....” (p.g 93). Readers are confronted with disturbing images which turn many people away from war. The war does not only destroy the soldiers but also the animals that are involved in the
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Nothing could more correctly describe the initial moments of my reunion with Rahim Khan". Amir’s reunion with Rahim Khan is uncomfortable because of what is left unsaid. Rahim Khan knows Amir’s secret shame‚ but does not mention it. "He’s sit in the back of the room‚ dressed in his shiny old gray suit‚ wooden cane across his lap‚ smiling. Sometimes he even took notes." "I told him I had written stories in the leather bound notebook he had given me‚ but he didn’t remember the notebook." "And
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Persuasive Essay Pistol Pete The book Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich‚ by Mark Kriegel‚ brought up many important issues. It told the story of a ballplayer transformed by his father’s dream‚ which brought many consequences along with it. Growing up‚ Press Maravich’s life revolved around basketball. If it didn’t have to do with basketball‚ it wasn’t important‚ nothing was important except for his love for the game. When Press’ son‚ Pete Maravich was born‚ he not only inherited the “basketball
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All Quiet on the Western Front War War is a battle of not only the physical but also the psychological. In the text‚ All quiet on the western front‚ by Enrich Maria Remarque‚ and the poem Homecoming‚ by Bruce Dawe‚ our understanding is challenged through various representations of war such as innocence‚ srvivl and grief. Throughout the novel‚ “All quiet on the western front”‚ we as the readers are taken on a journey with the character Paul Baumer‚ a young man‚ whom started the war with a “head[s]
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