In the film “All Quiet on The Western Front” a first hand war experience is depicted from the point of view of soldiers who fought on the front of the German line. People who were not fighting had these beliefs of what happened at the front. They were told countless stories but all of them were war cliches which were far from the truth of what really happened. The blood‚ sweat‚ bodies‚ countless injured and dead‚ the suffering‚ people knew it happened but not to the extreme that it was. This film
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casualties with 17 million deaths and around 20 million soldiers were wounded during the war. Soldiers showed courage by fighting and learned how important it is to trust other men. They faced hard conditions and suffered many injuries. In the novel‚ All Quiet on The Western Front‚ Erich Maria Remarque portrays the main character‚ Paul Baümer‚ as a superior comrade‚ a smart decision-maker‚ and a brave soldier. Paul Baümer would not be able to survive the war without his friends and his friends would
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Group 1 Johann Gottfried von Herder and Ernest Renan both tried to give a definition to a notion of a nation‚ and the ways they used to do so were‚ seemingly‚ similar. First‚ they both incorporate the idea of nature and its barriers and unifications – mountains and rivers – in their works; however‚ each of them proves different points. Herder argues that “if otherwise mountains had arisen‚ rivers flowed‚ or coasts trended‚ then how very different would mankind have scattered over this tilting place
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__ All Quiet on the western front and how it relates to "Insensibility" by Wilfred Owen Submitted by: Marilyn Thipthorpe I think this movie is a classic masterpiece or example of Anti-war. It shows how war takes everything away from you especially your humanity. This movie was banned for about 4-5 years after its release because of its in-depth effect on people due to the war. In this movie we get a young German group (who haven’t even passed out of College yet) who have been recruited in
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He served in World War I himself‚ and was injured on five occasions in a short period of time. He was in the Second Company‚ just as Paul Baümer‚ which further certifies that he wrote this novel based on true events and stories. All Quiet on the Western Front made him rich at a very young age‚ yet he did not settle for it‚ publishing nine more books on the same topic in hopes to promote a more peaceful world. Through this book and these other nine works‚ Remarque was a muckraker for
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War is often viewed as one of the most dangerous and brutal events ever created. It utterly destroys the humanity and mental state of soldiers fighting in the war. In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ a world renowned war novel by Erich Maria Remarque‚ the epigraph states that this novel “will try simply to tell of a generation of men who‚ even though they may have escaped shells‚ were destroyed by the war.” Staying true to this quote‚ Remarque tells of the horrors of World War I and fittingly describes
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All Quiet on the Western Front In the book “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Remarque‚ the author uses nature‚ and comradeship‚ to describe what the characters are going through. Erich uses nature in several ways‚ such as describing how the soldiers are facing terrible hardships‚ also it reflects on their sadness‚ and provides a contrast to the unnatural world of war. The author also uses the theme Comradeship through all the horrifying pictures of death and inhumanity‚ he talks about when
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unprecedented level of insight into the life of a soldier in the Great War. The first-hand account from the lowest levels of the German army‚ literally from the trenches‚ gives the reader a haunting glimpse of the horrors of trench warfare. The book “All Quiet on the Western Front” was written in only months in 1927‚ almost as if the story had been in the author’s mind for a decade just waiting to be put on paper. It is‚ at the most basic level‚ an anti-war novel. The story is not written as an indictment
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The American Dream or the American Failure? When people think of a classic American novel‚ the one most referred to would be Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ by Mark Twain‚ first published in December of 1884. Twain writes about a young boy named Huckleberry Finn‚ who rebels against the American society during the 19th century as he faces many trials and tribulations that he refers to as bad luck. Finn is without a mother‚ who passed away earlier in his life and his father is a disorderly alcoholic
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Remarques way of coping. Remarque‚using repetition on the emphasis of youth‚ omissing the real way Kemmerich died when he told Kemmerich’s mother‚ having Paul die on a regular and quiet day and using pathos to make one feel sympathy‚ wrote All Quiet on the Western Front as an anti-war novel. In the beginning of All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Remarque really emphasized on how Paul’s
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