Erich Maria Remarque was born in Germany in the year 1898 into a lower-middle-class family. In 1916‚ he was drafted into the German army to fight in World War I where he was badly wounded. Ten years after the war ended‚ he published a book which was translated a year later into English with the title All Quiet on the Western Front. This is a novel about the experiences of ordinary German soldiers during World War I. Remarque starts off the novel by stating‚ "This book is to be neither an accusation
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"I am young‚ I am twenty years old; yet I know no thing of life but despair‚ death‚ fear‚ and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow...." said by Paul Baumer during his time at war in All Quiet on the Western Front. This quote represents how the war changed Paul’s view and attitude toward life. Paul‚ a once hopeful‚ sensitive boy‚ enlisted into the war right out of school‚ faced traumatizing experiences that changed him into a lonely man who saw life in a bitter‚ pessimistic way. In
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if he had to give up one son to the army‚ it might as well be Benny who was a quiet boy‚ and who wouldn’t push where he shouldn’t; and Mrs. Garber thought: “my Benny‚ he’ll take care‚ he’ll watch out;” and Benny’s brother Abe thought “when he comes back‚ I’ll have a garage of my own‚ you bet‚ and I’ll be able to give him a job.” Benny wrote every week‚ and every week the Garbers sent him parcels full of good things that a Jewish boy should always have‚ like salami and pickled herring and shtrudel
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WWI a war that killed seventeen million men‚ wounded twenty million more and physically and mentally destroyed the lives of countless men that suffered the rest of their lives from traumatic events that stated place in WWI. Erich Remarque brilliantly brings the tragedy into focus for the new generations in his historical novel All Quiet on the Western Front a book about physical and mental battles fought along the trenches of WWI. The story revolves around the early nineteen hundreds a group of
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“All Quiet on the Western Front” is a novel told by a nineteen-year-old by the name of Paul Bäumer. This novel is taken place in about 1914 until about 1918 during WWI. These men left everything behind including jobs‚ parents‚ wives‚ children‚ and dreams they hoped to eventually achieve. During this life journey the men take‚ they will begin to lose those who are close to them. Along with Paul were three others who had joined with him‚ Albert Kropp‚ Müller‚ and Leer. As well as four of their
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A Glimpse of Destruction through Symbols in All Quiet on the Western Front War. Very few words invoke such strong and conflicting reactions. War demands honor and death. War offers hope and despair. War creates the ultimate challenge and the pinnacle of defeat. Throughout history‚ man struggles to understand war and its impact on the people engaged in its horrors. Paul Baumer‚ the protagonist in Erich Maria Remarque’s historical fiction novel All Quiet on the Western Front‚ enlists in the war
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War is a transformative event as it has transformed the nation’s of the planet politically and economically‚ as well as transforming the nation’s art and literature. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Paul the main character returns back to his hometown realising it is different then he could remember as he was at the front and is unable to understand how to behave in the city and how everyone else is acting differently. As Paul was walking in the street he was noticing how everyone was
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