We Are Lost The protagonist of the All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Paul Baumer‚ says‚ "I believe we are lost" (Remarque 123). The soldiers themselves recognize that they are part of a lost generation. They are‚ "forlorn like children‚ and experienced like old men" (123). Lost Generation is revealed in All Quiet on the Western Front through the young soldiers loss of innocence‚ loss of life‚ and loss of home. The First World War has no positive effect on the lives of the young soldiers. The soldiers
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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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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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The novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ by Erich Maria Remarque has many different themes represented through out it. The main theme that is shown throughout the book is the “Lost Generation” theme. In the foreword‚ Remarque states‚ “This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession… It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who‚ even though they may have escaped shells‚ were destroyed by the war.” This book focuses on the Lost Generation of the German Army of World War I. The
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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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The movie starts with a high schooler Paul Baumer with many of his other friends including Albert Krupp and Franz Kemmerich sitting in class with their teacher Kantorek talking with them about the superiority and glory of the “Fatherland” and indoctrinated them to enlist in the German army. The friends eventually enter training camp under their Corporal Himmelstoss; who tried to torture Paul every chance he got. After surviving training camp‚ the soldiers got to board a troop train the same time
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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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__ 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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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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