for the ability to speak about these different things. Salter then argues the written languages is just as important and of all written literature‚ books are the most important. He talk about how the editor of a German fashion magazine named Erich Maria Remarque quit his job to write a novel and the issues of the magazine‚ the lunches and dinners and the models al have disappeared‚ but the novel is still read and matter. Language and literature are important to this world‚ but I do not agree they are
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Bibliography: "World War I." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation‚ 13 Mar. 2013. Web. 13 Mar. 2013. "Trench Warfare." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation‚ 13 Mar. 2013. Web. 13 Mar. 2013. Remarque‚ Erich Maria‚ and A. W. Wheen. All Quiet on the Western Front;. Boston: Little‚ Brown‚ and‚ 1929. Print.
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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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Wars. Within weeks however‚ the excitement and glory dissipated into horror and death‚ brought on by dangerous new machines of war that took control of the old fields and turned them into desolate moonscapes littered with corpses and wreckage. Erich Maria Remarque writes: “We wake up in the middle of the night. The Earth booms. Heavy fire is falling on us. We crouch into corners. We distinguish shells of every caliber. Each man lays hold of his things and looks again every minute to reassure himself
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During world war one‚ soldiers as well as anyone involved in the war faced many horrors during battle. Many horrific experiences and emotions they had became the subject for new types of poetry‚ writing‚ and even artwork. Artists used their mediums to question the experience as well as emotion. Using new modern art techniques such as cubism and impressionism‚ artwork was completely changed from its previous forms‚ reflecting the confusion of the era. Modernism in artwork and literature rejected
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untimely death. In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Erich Maria Remarque creates Paul Bäumer to represent a whole generation of men who are known to history as the "lost generation." Eight million men died in battle‚ twenty-one million were injured‚ and over six and a half million noncombatants were killed in what is called "The Great War." When the smoke cleared and the bodies were finally buried‚ the world asked — like Paul and his friends — why? Remarque writes his story to explain their reason for asking
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literature especially in the book‚ All Quiet on the Western Front and the poem‚ “Apologia Pro Poemate Meo”. The two are described from the point of view of soldiers within the war which is especially appropriate considering the authors Erich Remarque and Wilfred Erich were soldiers in World War I. Both works emphasize the horrors of war and the toll it takes on individuals involved. The different approaches taken strongly reflect the themes of camaraderie‚ the glorification of war and the killing of
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Especially through books as Erich Maria Remarque and George Orwell did. These two men and many other creators need to show the world their take on these issues as happens quite a bit in the world. Remarque showed that war can cost more than it is worth in his book All Quiet on the Western Front depicting a fiction yet plausible story set during WWI. Where Orwell gave
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Cited: Remarque‚ Erich Maria. _All Quiet on the Western Front_. New York: Ballantine‚ 1982. Print.
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dramatic time for these men the memoirs from the war was varied on the western front within the German ranks. Two well known books written by the German men were Storm of Steel‚ written by Ernest Junger‚ and All Quiet on the Western Front‚ written by Erich Maria Remarsque which were written on the same frontier‚ yet were different on many basic levels. In Storm of Steel‚ Junger explains the war through his own personal journal that he had written while in the war and though very patriotic and nationalistic
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