In the novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ the author uses strong imagery and detailed descriptions to convey the horrors of the Great War and their detrimental effects on soldiers from all fronts. Images such as desperation‚ starvation‚ trauma‚ guilt‚ and camaraderie create a lasting impression on the reader as they are planted in the shoes of German soldiers‚ fighting and depending upon each other for survival. These themes were the unfortunate reality of life in the trenches‚ where rival sides
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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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Patriotism isn’t something you know it is something you have to feel. Patriotism is the love of one’s country and the willingness to defend it. Patriotism does not mean a lot to me at the point of my life. The way our government is treating immigrants is rude and irresponsible. Immigrants come here thinking this is where they can start over and then they do and our government throw it all away by deporting them. I would never work for my country in the army. The reasons are because I would never
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“Context is all” (Margaret Atwood). Does this mean that there is no such thing as truth when considering knowledge gained through sense perception? Context is one of the most engrossing words in society. Knowledge can be assumed to be useless without the use of context‚ yet it is not always something that we need to consider in order for information to be proved true. As humans‚ we trust our sense perception‚ because we are easily able to justify everything we have witnessed. Certain pieces of
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All Quiet on the Western Front is by Erich Maria Remarque. This book was an extraordinary war story. Remarque uses excellent words and phrases to describe crucial details of the book. Remarque had first hand experience because he was a German in World War I. So he expresses his opinions through Paul the main character of the book. One of the strongest themes in this book is that war makes man inhuman. From the author’s point of view soldiers was often compared to various nonliving objects that
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Just lather that’s all by Hernando Tellez is a story about a man who owns a barbershop in Colombia. The barber himself is a rebel and comes face to face with the captain of the army which he kill rebels for living. Just lather that’s all demonstrates several stressful elements in which the barber demonstrates such as conflict‚ plot‚ and characterization. Just lather that’s all is situated in Colombia where army members kill rebels for living. In Bogotá there is a member of the rebels who owns a
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was fond of what the poet was saying about life being valuable and how he is trying to tell us that life is not empty or all we do is just die‚ but that there is meaning to life and that we should try to leave a legacy that could help others through life. This relates to the world we live in for the reason that people are always trying to find a reason to live and people from all walks of life always ask what the purpose of life is. The meaning of this poem is to tell people that the purpose of life
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AP Card for All Quiet in the Western Front 1. Title and Author • All Quiet in the Western Front is a novel written by Erich Maria Remarque Date of Publication • January 29‚ 1929 Type of Work • All Quiet in the Western Front is a novel Period in Literary Tradition • Modern 2. Central Idea • The horrors of World War I had many effects on the expendable soldiers and left them feeling traumatized‚ alienated‚ desensitized‚ and physically damaged. 3. Historical‚ Political‚ or Social Context
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Literature of War / Period 1 The Savage Within Throughout Erich Maria Remarque’s novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ vivid images of gruesome animal instincts and the innocent animals’ lives ending are illustrated for the reader repeatedly. Remarque indicates that for a soldier’s survival in battle they must cease sanity and rely solely on primitive instinct. This notion of animal instincts leads soldiers to be less
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