This theme is connected mainly with Fw. He came to Vietnam to find his death. He knew there was war and he hoped that death would come to him quickly. He was tired‚ worn. We can feel his weariness with life‚ with the heat‚ with the whole human condition. He was pessimistic about everything. From childhood he had never believed in permanence‚ and yet he had longed for it. Always he was afraid of losing happiness. Phuong was happiness for him. That month‚ next year‚ she would leave him. She was young
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Entry #2: Chapters 5-11 Summary: It starts out with Maggie giving birth and Will reminiscing about how he met Emma and hints at conflict at moving back into this town. Then it shifts to Iris’s side of that night where she goes and sees an old war movie‚ almost reminiscent of the war they’re in right now‚ and then flirting gets serious with Harry. Maggie dies after giving birth‚ and Will decides to go to London to help out with people who’ve been hurt because of the war. Frankie Bard tries to convince
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Greek Historian‚ Herodotus once stated‚ “In peace‚ sons bury their fathers. In war‚ fathers bury their sons”. The Great War as it was called that ran from 1914 to 1918 resulted in the unnecessary loss of many of the world’s youth. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front‚ the author Erich Maria Remarque shares his traumatic experiences of being a young soldier at war through the character of Paul Bäumer. The book was published in 1929‚ and caused a lot of controversy at the time. This was due to
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When Word’s Come Alive “He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank‚ a man who can bend language to his will.” This is how The New York Times Book Review describes Erich Maria Remarque’s writing in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque uses figurative language to enhance his ideas. The most developed device he uses is personification because it grabs the reader’s attention and helps the reader understand the mood of the novel. One example of personification that pulls the reader
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country. Essentially‚ in Erich Remarque’s book All Quiet on the Western Front‚ the main character Paul Baumer is swayed to go to war to fight for his country. The society around him has made him believe war is a triumphant thing and feel as if he is obliged to fight for his country. Similarly‚ the Poem “Dulce et decorum est” by Wilfred Owen discusses the true atmosphere of war which contrasts the society’s acclaimed beliefs of it. Both works All Quiet On the Western Front and “Dulce et Decorum Est
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The main interpretation of this poem is about a soldier fighting in a brutal war. This poem was written during the first world war in 1914. Frost describes a lone soldier who fell during battle. Frost also describes a soldier that is witnessing many harmful things that were going on during the war and causing this world’s destruction. Although‚ I believe there is also a hidden meaning. I believe that the poem symbolizes all the soldiers and people that were forgotten at war. All throughout our
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With so many great writers throughout the history of writing‚ and with so many genres it is very difficult to appeal to everyone when an author finishes a polished piece of fiction. Raymond Carver’s Will You Please Be Quiet‚ Please? however will appeal to the mass audience of fiction readers throughout all genres‚ because Raymond Carver allows for his readers to become lost in his vivid and continoues dreams which he concurs with raw splendor and sinster truth. Carver’s book is a collection of fictional
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side when things in life get unbearable. Friendship is the strongest bond any group of people can share‚ and Paul Baumer is not a person to object to that. He is a boy that needs his friends to help him survive in World War I. In the novel of All Quiet on the Western Front‚ camaraderie proves itself to be the most prevailing connection between people. The narrator of this story is a young German teenager that was manipulated into enlisting in the army in World War I. The new soldier begins his story
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Julian Bangash All Quiet on the Western Front‚ a soldier’s bloody account of World War I‚ was written by Erich Maria Remarque in 1929. It was first made into a movie in 1930‚ and then re-made in 1979 directed by Delbert Mann. All Quiet on the Western Front is the story of a young German named Paul Baumer who is drafted into the German Imperial Army along with many of his high school friends. They are sent to the battlefield on the German western front seeking glory and adventure only to discover
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Letter Home Dear Brother‚ I have just received your letter about considering joining the German army and fighting in this god awful war. From my tone already you should notice that I completely disagree with your thinking and am going to try my hardest to persuade you not to come out and fight. Just like you I had once fallen for all of the propaganda going around Germany. An old teacher I used to know named Kantorich had filled my and many of my classmates heads with patriotic reasons to
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