During World War I‚ countless soldiers naively enlisted into the army‚ unaware of the harsh realities that lied before them. In the novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Erich Maria Remarque tells the story of Paul Baumer‚ a German soldier stationed in northeastern France. This was a time period when war was unjustly glorified and only the soldiers understood the battles with their conscience that would follow their deployment. When they first entered the war‚ Paul and his friends were excited
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“When I was at school we had a teacher whose fixed idea was to make us learn by heart the lives of famous women‚ in order to incite us to imitate them. The exhortation which accompanied these narrations was always the same. Would you not like to become famous?” “Oh no‚” I replied drily one day‚ “I shall never be that. I care too much for the children of the future to add yet another biography to the list.” (Her Life and Work‚ Chapter 1‚ p. 21). Despite not having an inclination of being famous‚ Dr
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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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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is the greatest war novel of all time. This is not true because it is a cliche story about a war hero who saves many lives‚ but rather because it illustrates the true horrors of war and its effects on the soldiers. This book demonstrates the bloody and dehumanizing effect that was has on a soldier such as Paul Bäumer. Paul Bäumer is the protagonist in this novel‚ a nineteen-year-old boy who enlists in the army with his school mates at the encouragement
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War‚ what is it good for. What seems to be just a catchy song from the late 60’s‚ actually has an accurate depiction of the gruesome wars this world has gone through. In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque‚ WWI soldiers learn the cold hard facts about how nothing good comes out of wars. Not everyone is born a fighter‚ some are peer pressured into volunteering not knowing the treacherous path ahead of them. Throughout the book Remarque uses symbolism to express the gruesome effects
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Elena is described as an English learner that has only been in the United States for one and a half years. It also states that her and her family are from Mexico and that her parents are professionals. We know from these details and the written and oral samples she gave that her main struggles are in writing and speaking in English. First‚ as an English learner‚ she is struggling with particular grammatical rules present in the English language. In her written response‚ she is not properly using
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n Erich Maria Remarques’ Novel All Quiet On the Western Front even though soldiers escaped the war‚ they were still mentally and physically destroyed by what they witnessed and experienced. Destroyed in this sense means that they were ruined by war‚ they will never be themselves again. WW1 and any war for that matter was and are brutal on the soldiers bodies and souls. Many soldiers say that even after returning home they have a strange feeling of “strangeness”. “It will try simply to tell of a
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Maria Bochkareva Becca Roberts 4th 2-25-14 Russia had rules forbidding women joining the army‚ but some did. For the first few years of the war‚ the few women who actually fought in the front lines required required the complicity of military officals-- except one. Maria Leontievna Bochareva was the third daughter of a pesant family. She as born in Novgorod Oblast in 1889. Badly beaten by her alcoholic father‚ she left home at fifteen to marry Afansi Bochkareva. The couple moved to Tomsk
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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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Growing up is difficult‚ but could you imagine feeling 50‚ before you have even turned 20 years old? Young boys leave their childhoods behind in the fight for their lives and country in the novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque. This story follows the life of Paul Bäumer‚ a soldier fighting in World War I‚ who must overcome his greatest fears and the expectations to be the young‚ valiant soldier. The soldiers face pain‚ fear‚ and death as they learn how to survive
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