Even though Luis died he made a great impact on Paul. If Luis didn’t die or tell him that he shouldn’t be afraid, Paul wouldn’t make all these life changing decisions. The choices we make will always power our life decisions and how our life is…
As both the central character and narrator of the story, Paul brings us into the story with him and looking back at it, he recalls it for us. Paul is an engaging character and describes his passage from childhood to adolescence. He is likeable although he does have his downfalls. He is excruciatingly insensitive as he persues Keller's past, however he evokes sympathy as he pedals furiously to Rosie's house, afraid he "might lose her".…
When Paul comes across Joseph Henisch, someone who once knew Keller before the loss of his family he realises how much Keller has changed as a result of the circumstances he endured…
In the end of the book the protagonist’s problem finally is resolved, when he gains the courage to tell someone about the violent and angry behavior his brother shows all the time. At the end of the book Paul said to the police officer ,”I saw him, I saw Arthur Bauer sneak up on Luis Cruz, like a coward and hit him on the side of the head. Luis never even saw it coming… I saw - I heard Erik Fisher tell him to do it.” This is really where Paul overcomes his problem in the book by finally telling someone else about the things that he saw his brother do.…
This is how we enter the second phase of the monomyth, the struggle or intiation phase. Paul is faced with a decision, does he help the man, or does he try to pretend he doesnt notice. He decides to walk away and exits the elevator "without looking back".…
Considering his experience on the front Paul is feeling hopeless and doesn't believe that he can make it. After all he is broken, rootless, and weary from the war. Also he is convulsing and about to die so he is obviously feeling hopeless because he really has almost no chance to live. He is also feeling like all this time in the war is pretty pointless since he doesn't even know what the war is about. He has been out there risking his life everyday for a reason that he doesn't even…
In this day in the book, Paul is suddenly awaken by a loud sound of an explosion. He went back to sleep but was then awaken again by an even louder noise. He scrambled to his feet and told his mother his smelled smoke. She immediately called the fire department. It took the fire fighters about twenty minutes to get to their house. The fire man stepped out of the truck and explained to Mom and Paul about the muck fire and how it was caused by lightning.Later that day, Paul was exploring the neighborhood by riding his bike around. When he came back he found his mom talking to a man called Mr. Costello, and with him, was Mike Costello, his son.…
Paul has nothing left. His friends are dead. His mother is sick, and he is on the brink of…
As they perish in the war it is shown that Paul loses some of what makes him human as said in the book “I am very quiet. Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing no more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me”, (Remarque 295). With nothing to comfort Paul at the end of the war. It makes him say that he is now alone, and has nothing to give, and nothing can be taken from him, and earlier in the novel when Paul is sitting on the toilet with his friends socializing about the war. Just so they could stay sane throughout the…
www.allexperts.com/psycology/suicid ,are acting withdrawn, reckless, abusing alcohol, suffering form a major loss, and verbal warnings. Of course, this is a generic list and Paul fits into most of this categories in some way or another, but he did not warns us verbally. On the contrary, in the story's dialog and in his thoughts, he makes us think he enjoys a certain way of life and deems everything else meaningless and dull. These makes the conclusion of this short story quite unexpected .…
The Road Not Taken however emphasizes the significance of decisions one makes in their life and how such decisions are the catalysts to the person they become.…
Bodie Thoene once said, “What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.” This quote means that most people forget the right way and just way to do things because of the easier and more convenient way. I agree with this quote because I have done it before many times, and have witnessed it many times. As an example, I once did something that was not kind, and when given the opportunity to be honest, I instead lied and covered up my wrong doing. I could have admitted my fault, but it was a more difficult option than to lie and ignore it afterwards. I have seen other people do this as well. Once I was with my friend and we were tossing a football around as we walked, and he tripped and bumped into a parked car. He left a small dent, and against my attempts to persuade him, he left the scene and didn’t say sorry to the owner. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost supports the idea of this quote; however, “Untraveled Road” by Thousand Foot Krutch does not.…
Action: The action in this scene is that I want her to step back over the line because she needs to understand it is the right thing to do it, and she's the only one not listening/breaking the rules. I want her to feel some sympathy for me and that I might lose my job, or have other bad things happen, and I want her to understand that she needs to get back over, before I get screwed over.…
As Paul recovers enough to walk about the hospital, he analyses the impact of the war from another perspective. The experience of seeing so many hideous wounds, so many groaning, dying men forces him to ponder the great waste of the war. You also see Paul speaking for Remarque…
family and force's Paul to leave the town and create a new image for himself.…