A comrade is a friend or companion‚ to a soldier it means much more than that. Throughout the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque‚ the soldiers learn through numerous events on the front that their fellow comrades mean everything to them. In a place so horrific as the front their comrades are all they have that they can rely on and through this they have complete trust in one another. Amidst the chaos and terror of war‚ a soldier needs some sort of comfort to keep him going
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the horrific and soul-destroying war. One by one the classmates are fall in action… 1. What is the title of this film? When was it made? Who wrote the original novel? Title: All Quiet on the Western Front Made in: 1979 Author: Erich Maria Remarque 2. Why did the students join the Army? The students were taught fighting was something good. War was an adventure. When being soldiers‚ the students did not have to attend school and they want to fight for their fatherland. 3.
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Ghandi once said “I object to violence because when it appears to do good‚ the good is only temporary‚ the evil is permanent.” This is true for all wars‚ but especially for World War I as it was one of the bloodiest wars in human history‚ with over 35 million military and civilian casualties (Casualties). Britain‚ Russia‚ and Germany were among the few European powers in the war. Russian and Britain joined the war based on the alliances they made‚ whereas countries such as Germany joined the war
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the battlefields in war can be a gruesome and painful experience. Remarque displays a really visual sense of what death is like on the battlefield‚ "We see men living with their skulls blown open; we see soldiers run with their two feet cut off […] we find one man who has held the artery of his arm in his teeth for two hours in order not to bleed to death. The sun goes down‚ night comes‚ the shells whine‚ life is at an end.”( Remarque 134). The men that are
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Francine Prose’s‚ I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read‚ proves many points about literature and the effect it has on students. I agree with Prose in such a sense that I believe students should read literature‚ not to get a better understanding of the “behind-the-scenes” of the story‚ or because it was assigned to them‚ but because they want to read it and that they will actually read the story thoroughly‚ understand it‚ and apply it to themselves and their life. I have taken English classes where
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a fictional novel based on Remarque’s own experiences in World War I. Remarque uses view of a soldier Paul Bäumer to expose the horrors of the war. Bäumer’s first person narration creates the effects of intimacy‚ isolation and drama. Bäumer’s narration puts the reader directly in the middle of the action. It creates a sense of closeness between the reader and the story. It feels as though Bäumer is speaking directly to the reader‚ creating
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Shadows of Glory Within the novel All Quiet on the Western Front‚ the author Erich Maria Remarque captures the transforming essence of battle amidst the Great War‚ and how once-ignorant adolescents become part of the Lost Generation. A key character‚ Paul Baümer‚ reflects upon his perception of the war‚ “We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we
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every Disney movie‚ the villain is portrayed as a horrendous beast who was once a human. The thing is‚ every wicked witch or horrendous beast was once a human with a kind soul who suffered a traumatic event. In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque‚ the German soldiers shift from fresh-out-of-high-school kids to shameless killing machines after witnessing the horrors of World War I. In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ while fighting the Vietnam War without understanding its purpose
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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 other soldiers have had to make
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toward knowledge and progress; however‚ his movement lacked widespread support. Necessary was the disaster of WWI‚ which accelerated the overall undermining of prior intellectual beliefs by inspiring a culture-wide disagreement: authors such as Erich Remarque and Vera Brittain drew upon newfound doubt underscored by the war to completely reverse prior thinking by
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