The nature of trench warfare and life in the trenches dealing with experiences of Allied and German soldiers…
The horrors of World War I had many effects on the expendable soldiers and left them feeling traumatized, alienated, desensitized, and physically damaged.…
In this part of the book the group starts finally seeing some action happening around them, there are patrol helicopters flying overhead in the desert, and they constantly have to take cover. One day they are behind some rocks and hear gunfire, they begin to engage the enemies in combat, yet they notice the sound of the guns they are using are the sound an MP5, a sub-machine gun, and that the Bzadians don't use those guns, they use ones from their own technology. This enemy makes them surrender, and it turns out that they are friendly, and are part of the British military. They then decide that when they go to sneak in to the enemy base, they will use the two British soldiers as prisoners, because the group has been worked with with lots of make-up and body…
Erich Maria Remarque’s book All Quiet on the Western Front explains the brutal and filthy life inside the trenches during the first world war. The story revolves around high school friends who through nationalism and propaganda are convinced to join the war effort. However they did not get the heroic lifestyle they were expecting. Instead they got years filled with death, despair, and fear as they continued to fight and attempt to stay alive. Readers will follow the story and learn the true horrors on the battlefield and how even in a state of hopelessness people will still be human.…
Life in the trenches were constant of boredom, routine, “shell shock”, disease and vermin and the “stench of death”…
“The front is a cage in which we must await fearfully whatever may happen” said Paul in All Quiet On the Western Front. In this book friends from college are recruited to the army to fight for their country in the Great War. The boys were full of pride until they got to the front and were conquered by fear. The front wasn’t what they expected; everything that was done was for nothing but survival. Like any war the war came to an end but not all the college classmates/friends survived, and many of them didn’t get the chance to visit their families. This was a good book due to its tone, theme, point of view, and plot.…
In the story All Quiet On The Western Front, the author Erich Maria Remarque uses the motif of blood and death to display a theme of withering innocence, and how soldiers had to witness horrible events through humanity’s downfall. Erich uses animals to show crude human nature, the story describes to us how “the belly of one horse is ripped open, the guts trail out. He becomes tangled in them and falls, then he stands up again” (63 Remarque). This passage of gruesome death shows decaying innocence by humans forcing innocent creatures of the land, to fight for their own selfish needs and ways. Throughout the story, Paul is thrown again and again into life or death situations, “I grab for my gas-mask.…
In 1914, a young German soldier named Lothar Dietz, fighting on the Western Front wrote a letter home to his friends and family describing a near identical visual of what the film, All Quiet on The Western front displayed. He vividly describes an absolutely extirpated landscape, an unthinkable amount of casualties and even the loss of spirit and fight amongst vast majorities of men. He says things such as “one can’t possibly feel happy in a place where all nature has been devastated” and “We don’t expect the pine…
Contrary to other literary history works, “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Remarque Erich Maria is so unique because of the way it displays such a realistic view of war and the associated loss of humanity, innocence, and emotion that accompany it. Throughout this novel, Remarque proves his point that war is unnecessary, and dishonorable. The novel really emphasizes on the accumulating body count everyday, showing every aspect of how war is absolutely gruesome and such a waste of pure lives. Also, “All Quiet on the Western Front” shows how the position of being in war can change a person dramatically preventing them from returning to their previous lives, and scarring them permanently.…
The film “All Quiet on the Western Front” based on the novel written by Erich Maria Remarque, chronicles the horrors of World War I through the eyes of a German soldier named Paul Bäumer. Along with his friends, Paul enlists to join the army with the enthusiasm and honor to be able to serve their country. However, their eagerness to fight is lost as they witness the brutality of the war through deadly battles along the western front. Paul is driven to despair as he painfully watches the war kill his friends. However, he must continue to serve his country, and after interactions with the enemy, he sees they are not cruel and heartless people, but they are just like him, people who have families, hopes, dreams, and the will to live. Consequently,…
After reading All Quiet on the Western Front, my thought on warfare has changed completely. At first, I thought in 1914, if you were wounded severely, you just had to lie there and no one would try to help you. Now I know that there was many people within your “compound’ that were willing to risk their own lives to save yours. Also, I didn’t think that a medical vehicle was used in 1914-1916, I didn’t think that they were made for that much abuse yet.…
War is often viewed as one of the most dangerous and brutal events ever created. It utterly destroys the humanity and mental state of soldiers fighting in the war. In All Quiet on the Western Front, a world renowned war novel by Erich Maria Remarque, the epigraph states that this novel “will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.” Staying true to this quote, Remarque tells of the horrors of World War I and fittingly describes the effects that war has on humans through the eyes of the protagonist, Paul Bäumer. In his epigraph Remarque says, “this book is to be neither an accusation, nor a confession, and least of all an adventure.” Except for a few notable exceptions,…
Blood splattered to the ground, flung from the end of a longsword blade thrust in and out of the red man’s heart. Stumbling back, he fell to the earth beneath him, writhing in discomfort and pain. Such a descent left behind a resounding thud, though muffled by the pings and clashes of shield and sword and the screams of pain, agony, and terror. More red men arrived in droves, marching onward, firing a barrage of scorching arrows at the town, striking thatch roofs, the fields, and the trees. The quick strikes of boots on the ground echoed like drums through the still air. The sun shone on the blades of the red men’s axes and swords, blindingly bright, as it slipped below the horizon. Night was nearing.…
A thousand fires burned on the faded green hills around me, hot smoke rose into the air with the aroma of onions and carrots and pork. My company sat closest to the rough bulwark and lines of splintering wooden spikes that marked the edge of the camp. Deep grey clouds set in; suffocating the azure sky the light was swallowed so quickly I thought that the sun had disappeared. I couldn’t see a thing so I decided to join my brothers for dinner, there were plenty of others on watch duty and one man wouldn’t make a difference.…
Through the mist of the morning, the scarlet leaves could be seen. In front stood a tree, waving its arms at me. The sky wasn’t visible to my sight, the deep grey clouds were disappearing, and the sun was nowhere to be seen. Regardless, I continued my journey with my obsolete umbrella firmly tucked under my arm and against my battered coat; that I have been wearing for the past fifteen years. The roar of engines could be heard as I continued my journey. The mist thickened into a dense fog, mirroring my thoughts. Luckily, I could still make out the image of armoured vehicles. They were small, much smaller than the ones before……