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 in the German army and bluntly exposes the horrors of war in hopes
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Bradford 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
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World War One is known for its bloodshed. “All Quiet on the Western Front‚” explains how the war changes people in their mental‚ emotional‚ and physical state featuring Paul‚ a young soldier. The book emphasizes heroism over glory‚ and how winning was a spirit booster. Although this is true‚ there were some un-favourited effects of the battles. Bullets and bombs weren’t the only ways that had killed many of the men Combat is a common factor in suicides. Only two months after the war did suicides
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What Has War Made Me? War can do many horrible things to its soldiers‚ but it can also save them from themselves. All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque is a testament of Paul Bäumer. He and seven classmates enlist in World War I. They experience and witness unspeakable violence becoming soldiers. More violence than anyone should ever see. It corrupts most of the soldier’s minds because of the trauma that they have faced. Although war dehumanized many of the young men
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soldier‚ Paul Baumer‚ dies. In the book All Quiet On the Western Front‚ Erich Maria Remarque creates the character of Paul Baumer in order to illustrate a generation full of men who are well known throughout our history‚ of what we all know of‚ the “Lost Generation.” About eight million soldiers lost their lives in combat and millions more were injured under the occasion of what we call today‚ “The Great War.” Remarque wrote this book about what these fighters at war deal with first hand; like with their
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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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All Quiet on the Western Front Vs. The Wars During World War I‚ many soldiers were impacted by the mental and physical effects that have changed their lives in positive‚ but mostly negative ways. There are two novels that talk about two men in World War I‚ however each tells a different story on their struggles on the battlefield. On one of the books‚ The Wars by Timothy Findley‚ focuses on the protagonist Robert Ross‚ a Canadian soldier that joined the war. Robert Ross mainly joined to war because
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neither an accusation nor a confession‚ and least of all an adventure‚ for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who‚ even though they may have escaped shells‚ were destroyed by the war.” ~~epigraph The epigraph opens the book’s exploration of the effect of the war on those who fought in it. All Quiet on the Western Front takes a big critical opinion against the war and against nationalist and unknowing people like Kantorek
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In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel ” All quiet on the western front”‚ The uselessness‚ hopelessness‚ and effects of war are displayed using Paul Baumer’s‚ a young German soldier‚ experience and encounters while being on the front line. The effects of war are far worse than the advantages or rewards of war. In the first chapter there is a wide range of greediness and desensitization. When the remaining eighty soldiers came back‚ hungry and wanting‚ heinrich takes no notice and keeps on cooking for one
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(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 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
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