All Quiet on the Western Front At the start of the 20th Century‚ the world was engaged in a catastrophic battle known as World War 1. During this time questions arose over the true nature of war. Authors such as Siegfried Sassoon and Erich Maria Remarque step out to introduce a different perspective of war through literacy‚ an outlook which many people in their time were oblivious to. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is considered to be “the greatest war novel of all time”
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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT In the book All Quiet on the Western Front the main character and narrator Paul describes the war as not fighting for his country but fighting for his own survival. This theme has been repeatedly outspoken in the book because Paul and the other characters have lost their sense of patriotism. Once the characters have left their previous feelings of patriotism‚ which is why they joined the war initially‚ they have no other choice but to fight in order
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The book "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque is set in a time of sorrow and discovery. WW1 bore some of the first advanced weaponry because of the allies necessity for greater protection from the enemies. That was a huge leap into what was to come in later wars as this artillery began to evolve into the complex ordnance of today. So much new weaponry was being developed and it was the Germans‚ who are the main focus in the book‚ who were ahead in developing tactics and technology
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do when one was shot off‚ also seeing some of your closest and best friends killed really destroyed people me tally and ruined them as people knowing that it could’ve been u instead of them or could be you at any moment. In All Quiet on the Western Front Paul basically says that they believe in luck and that the only chance they have to stay alive in WWI is by luck‚ and it was very frequent that they’re luck runs out. In WWI the conditions were awful‚ men were always being brutally killed and
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All Quiet On The Western Front : Quotes KEY ; Quotes‚ Source‚ My opinion/own words. Key words Lost Generation – (young boys leaving school and going to war for their country) (Page 85) ‘’That’s what set us apart and made our parents’ world a little difficult for us to understand; because somehow we were always gently bound up with that world‚ submissive to it all‚ and the smallest thing led us onwards along the path of eternity. Perhaps it was just the privilege of our youth – we were not
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Period 3 March 13‚ 2013 “All Quiet On the Western Front” Book Review “All quiet on the western front” was a war story of a young man’s life during World War 1. The book was told from a different perspective then war books I have previously read before; it showed the German soldiers life and how they perceived the war. It explained harsh events that happened and brutal situations that the Germans endured. This book takes in the western front where Paul‚ the main character is stationed. He
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All Quiet on the Western Front Paul Baumer leaves for the western front a young boy‚ but as All Quiet on the Western Front goes on‚ Paul becomes more of a soulless soldier. Multiple events while fighting for Germany caused Paul to become this way. He began pushing away his family‚ friends‚ everyone‚ everything. This was a technique he used to survive. He cut off all emotions to become the best possible soldier he could be. When Paul and his friends signed up to go overseas‚ and fight for Germany
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English 2 Betrayal of The Youth and The Extinction of a Generation All Quiet on The Western Front is an autobiographical novel written by German WWI veteran Erich Maria Remarque and was published in 1928. What makes this novel so unique and enticing is Remarque’s personal insight on the war which comes from his experiences in WWI. Remarque wrote All Quiet on the Western Front in order to overcome his own traumas that had set in after the war. Remarque was a militant pacifist after his time serving
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20-year-old German soldier‚ contemplates his future: "Let the months and years come‚ they can take nothing from me‚ they can take nothing anymore. I am so alone and so without hope that I can confront them without fear" (Chapter 12). These final‚ melancholy thoughts occur just before his young and 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
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There are two major fronts in WWI. The Western Front and the Eastern Front. These two fronts were both alike in many ways and different in many ways. The Western Front was the region in France and the Eastern Front was a part of battlefield along the Russian and German border. It was a difficult thing to face war on two fronts‚ especially when both sides were hard to adapt and battle through on. For example‚ the Germans or Alfred Vin Schlieffen created a Schlieffen Plan ‚ which called for a
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