All Quiet on the Western Front In All Quiet on the Western Front by Enrique Maria Remarque‚ the reader follows Paul Baumer as he fights through World War I and discovers the trials of being a soldier. As they survive through the war with each other‚ Paul and the other soldiers began to understand certain realities of life. Going into the battlefield teenagers‚ the soldiers come out as old men‚ burdened with their experiences. The war‚ meant to glorify Germany and turn its men into heroes‚ deadens
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All Quiet on the Western Front January 2‚ 2000 1. In the movie “All Quiet on the Western Front”‚ the German soldiers were sent into the battlefield thinking that they were going to win. The inexperienced boys were persuaded in to fighting and dying for the victory of their country. This brought on a profound sense of disillusionment with the values of Western Civilization. In the German soldier’s view they were looking to win the war and take over territory. Such
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World War One is known for its bloodshed. “All Quiet on the Western Front‚” explains how the war changes people in their mental‚ emotional‚ and physical state featuring Paul‚ a young soldier. The book emphasizes heroism over glory‚ and how winning was a spirit booster. Although this is true‚ there were some un-favourited effects of the battles. Bullets and bombs weren’t the only ways that had killed many of the men Combat is a common factor in suicides. Only two months after the war did suicides
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Erich Maria Remarque‚ the author of the prestigious novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” was born on June 22‚ 1898‚ and had a first hand insight on the war the book is based on‚ the first World War. Before he started his career as a writer‚ Remarque started his fight for the German army at the age of 18. Remarque’s previous military history helped shape his story behind the book. The characters Remarque chose for “All Quiet on the Western Front” portrays his personal thoughts and experiences. The relationship
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They forget who they are‚ and usually block the pain and death that comes with the experience of war. As seen in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque‚ Paul Baumer explains‚ “We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which‚ though they may be ornamental enough in peacetime‚ would be out of place here” (139). Paul and many of the
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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 young German men who will all join the war after being urged by one of their high school teachers to pursue in being patriotic to their country. The story starts out with nineteen
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The novel‚ “All Quiet on the Western Front” is seen as an anti-war novel that shows war being devastating to our countries and more debilitating to our soldiers. The novel shows German soldiers being disturbed mentally‚ physically and socially for the rest of their lives. War can also cause the soldier to show detachment from civilian life. When one is put into a violent environment‚ it can directly/indirectly affect one’s physical and mental composure. When one is put into a brutal environment
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In a time period filled with war and conflict‚ the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a difficult read due to the heavy topic it pertains to. The story begins with Paul Bӓumer and his friends from school joining the army. They joined because they thought war would be honorable thanks to Kantorek‚ their teacher. After their ten weeks of training and their first two weeks of being on the front lines‚ only eighty of the one hundred fifty men return. Paul’s friend‚ Franz
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In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front the meaning of desensitization is manifested through the ability to have a tender heart is vilified. The brutally inhumane experiences the participants face demonstrate how war does not allow for and eminently discourages having a tender heart. The experience of war tends to strip a person of their humanity and natural human empathy and when the realization of such becomes palpable there is a desperate want or need to feel something
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All Quiet on the Western Front a novel by Erich Maria Remarque‚ who was also a German veteran from World War I. Remarque’s novel is about a young German named Paul Bäumer who joins the Imperial German military with his friends and goes to fight on the Western Front during World War I. Paul and his friends were encouraged by Kantorek‚ their teacher‚ to join the German army because it was a patriotic thing to do. When they reach the Western Front‚ they begin to realize the horrors of war. Paul is given
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