the front‚ the last man of his class died on that day of all days. Erich Maria Remarque tells a remarkable World War I story through the eyes of the soldier Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front. In this novel‚ Paul faces life in the roughness of trench warfare. Remarque explores the effects of war on both an entire generation and on the individual and dives into the connection between war and political power. The biggest recurring theme of this novel is the lost generation. Almost all of
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All Quiet on the Western Front is the story of Paul Baumer’s experience during world war one. In my opinion‚ the novel is a reflection on the nationalism of German soldiers due to the lack of nationalism in experienced soldiers and the consequences nationalism has for the soldiers. All Quiet on the Western Front is a reflection of the nationalism of German soldiers due to nationalism’s absence in the experienced soldiers. Paul explains that his school teacher convinced many young men to join in
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Erich Maria Remarque ’s All Quiet on the Western Front is without a doubt one of the most real adaptations of World War I and the effects on its participants that has ever been written. With its simple‚ clear cut‚ and to the point style of writing‚ it is able to capture as close to the true experience of the war as possible. Because of this‚ readers do not have to search through pages of fancy wording and over the top descriptions to find the reality of what Remarque is saying. War is not something
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The Horrors of War on the Front In “All Quiet on the Western Front” Erich Maria Remarque a German veteran describes the harsh events that happened in WWI. The main character Paul Baumer narrates his story of what happened on the Western Front. Paul and several friends decided to join the army right out of high school at the young age of 19. In the beginning‚ Paul and his comrades were excited to join the army because they had been given speeches about patriotism‚ in time they realized that war
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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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All Quiet on the Western Front Essay In “All quiet on the western front” the heroes that are in the novel would be the young men who died while fighting for their country. Many people believe a hero is an individual who epitomizes their own masculinity by sustaining a muscular figure with a gorgeous women on their arm. What I see is that a hero is someone who not afraid to lose their life to protect or save another person’s life. Soldiers are portrayed as people who ruthlessly kill and destroyed
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All Quiet on the Western Front is widely known for it’s vivid descriptions and retellings of World War I. It seems that throughout the novel‚ most aspects agree with the statement that “the consequence of war is devastation.” Keeping the book and certain facts in mind‚ I too agree that “the consequence of war is devastation.” I agree with this statement because of two major reasons. The first reason being the emotional and mental impact that war has on the minds of soldiers and their families. The
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War is good and bad‚ beneficial and pointless‚ but above all other things‚ immensely inhumane. Man created war‚ and with our controversial human nature egged it on. “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque is a war novel that shows the war experience and how war changes people. During the time spent at the front and at rest the soldier is turned from human to inhumane. They are taken away from the normal human emotion and placed into a state of being more animalistic and superhuman
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All Quiet on the Western Front In All Quiet on the Western Front by Enrique Maria Remarque‚ the reader follows Paul Baumer as he fights through World War I and discovers the trials of being a soldier. As they survive through the war with each other‚ Paul and the other soldiers began to understand certain realities of life. Going into the battlefield teenagers‚ the soldiers come out as old men‚ burdened with their experiences. The war‚ meant to glorify Germany and turn its men into heroes‚ deadens
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the novel? “All Quiet on the Western Front” written by Erich Maria Remarque explores the idea that men have escaped the shells of battle but were often destroyed by war. Remarque presents the changes in Paul and his friends and by displaying the sense of isolation the men feel after the war by using a range of techniques. Remarque displays the changes in Paul and his friends by showing how the boys were once school boys who had an education and a future but war extinguished all innocence and hope
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