Tabitha Forms in Literature September 27‚ 2004 Period 11 All Quiet on the Western Front Essay A lost generation‚ emotional destruction‚ the reality of war‚ these are all ideas displayed in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front that prove the validity of the statement in the preface. These ideas and more expressed by the author‚ Erich Maria Remarque‚ present the reader with the war novel of a lifetime. A war novel that is different from any other because of these ideas
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Setting (DESCRIBE the time period‚ geographical location‚ historical/social context) The setting in All Quiet on the Western Front takes place around the battlefield of the war‚ mainly the trenches. It was dark‚ morbid‚ chaotic and hopeless. Trench life was dreadful according to Paul. There was so much blood‚ mud and clamor from the blasts and bombs. The constant pounding of those bombs lasted for days‚ rumbling in those
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Surviving in Storytelling The act of killing is deeply intimate. It is both incredibly personal and emotionally devastating for all involved. Two people become forever connected in a tragic way. In All Quiet on the Western Front and The Things They Carried‚ characters Paul Baumer and Tim O’Brien both struggle with guilt following killing. The way in which they fixate the men they kill is particularly fascinating. They enter into a fantasy in which they imagine themselves living out these men’s lives
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In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Erich Maria Remarque progressively shows the brutality of war through the eyes of soldiers claiming their innocence‚ and also the effects of war on the people in the home front . In this essay I will be discussing the effect of war on both the combatants and non combatants in this novel. Remarque cleverly illustrates what men at the front go through in war‚ he describe how quickly soldiers realise the reality of war. “We march up‚ moody or good-tempered
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Nationalism can be defined as having a sense of belonging and loyalty to ones country or nation state. Of all the European nations‚ France was the first to sport the idea of nationalism. Many countries became influenced by the French’s ideas of nationalism. As a result nationalism had spread throughout out Europe by the nineteenth and twentieth century. One result that nationalism had on Europe was‚ the wanting of unification. The people of nation states wanted their country to belong to. This wanting
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All Quiet on the Western Front Is a Novel told from the perspective of Nineteen year old Paul Bäumer‚ a German Soldier who joins the war effort on the French front during World War I. Bäumer and a few friends get the idea to join the military after listening to patriotic speeches from their previous teacher‚ however quickly forsake these ideologies after experiencing the horrors of warfare on the front. After two weeks of horrific combat‚ a staggering eighty men of the original 150-man company return
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The novels All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and It Happened to Nancy
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In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque‚ Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen‚ and Route March by Charles Sorley the notion of the abyss must be overcome in order to survive. The notion of the abyss takes over and threatens Paul’s life. He discovers the abyss when he meets the Russian Prisoners. Paul states "A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends" (Remarque 193-194). Paul can only survive the war by killing
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The Lost Generation In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Paul Bäumer and his generation feel separated from the rest of the world. These boys’ lives were drastically changed by the war‚ and “even though they may have escaped its shells‚ they were destroyed by the war‚” (Remarque Epigraph) describing that even though they survived the war physically‚they were mentally destroyed by the dangers and chaos of war. Paul expresses that “he has been crushed without knowing it”
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still leaned toward themes of glory‚ adventure‚ and honor. In presenting his realistic version of a soldier’s experience‚ Remarque stripped that from war novels in his antiwar novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque accurately depicts both the physical and mental hardships of war. This novel should be read by all soldiers thinking of enlisting in the army for several reasons. First‚ the novel describes in detail the worst case scenarios associated with war. Soldiers would be able to make better
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