and the feelings of nationalist pride were shared by all those involved. In France‚ Roland Dorgelès was a witness to the eagerness of the people in‚ which he writes about in That Fabulous Day. “Young and old‚ civilians and military men burned with the same excitement. It was like a Brotherhood Day.”1[1] Everyone was willing to do their part and fight for their country. However‚ on another side of things‚ in the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque‚ the brutal realities of war
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of coping. Remarque‚using repetition on the emphasis of youth‚ omissing the real way Kemmerich died when he told Kemmerich’s mother‚ having Paul die on a regular and quiet day and using pathos to make one feel sympathy‚ wrote All Quiet on the Western Front as an anti-war novel. In the beginning of All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Remarque really emphasized on how Paul’s
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The novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ shows tremendous amount of symbolism‚ and the main symbol would be the importance of Kemmerich’s boots. In the battlefield‚ the boots were considered one of the most prized possession one could ever own amongst the soldiers. The boots also represented how the soldiers in the battlegrounds were extremely poor and in despair from the war itself. The author‚ Remarque‚ depicts as if the boots are more valuable and longer-lasting than lives on the battlefield
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never stop to think about war and its definition. Accroding to the dictionary‚ war is defined as a state of hostility‚ conlict‚ antagonism and death. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque tells the story about Paul Baumer‚ the narrator and protagonist of the book ‚ a neneteen year old German soldier who fights in the front lines of Western Europle during Wold War I and describs its synical hateful environment. The autobiographical book‚ Night by Elie Wiesel‚ takes place during The Holocaust
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Aspects of Life In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ different attitudes are betrayed from different people. Attitudes that come from various walks of life. When someone lives in a certain area and is surrounded by certain things‚ I believe it forms your opinion about life and people. That attitude can either make you or break you. War is definitely an example of a situation that can change your thoughts‚ actions‚ and emotions. The overriding theme of All Quiet on the Western Front is the horrible
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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). In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ there are many themes present throughout the text. The most important of which‚ being the psychological effects that the war has on the soldiers. Out of all of the men fighting throughout the war and
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All Quiet on the Western Front Long Essay All Quiet on the Western Front was a story of a group of young children‚ nineteen years old or so‚ who enlisted in the military on the advice of one of their professors. They were told‚ and believed‚ that they would be seen as heroes in everyone’s eyes‚ and that they were doing such great things for their country and showing extreme nationalism and patriotism. As the months went on‚ fighting on the front lines‚ these men realized that this life was nothing
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Lauren Davis Mr. Furlong English 10 17 Sept. 2014 The horrors and Dehumanizing Effects on War Through out the appalling novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Remarque‚ many themes were prevalent in the reading. The one theme that stood out most to me was the horrors and dehumanizing effects of war. Remarque‚ who fought in World War I himself‚ gives great details on how the solders live and the gruesome encounters. At the begging of the novel Paul expresses to us how dehumanizing
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a transformative event as it has transformed the nation’s of the planet politically and economically‚ as well as transforming the nation’s art and literature. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Paul the main character returns back to his hometown realising it is different then he could remember as he was at the front and is unable to understand how to behave in the city and how everyone else is acting differently. As Paul was walking in the street he was noticing how everyone was different
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The problem being‚ those that were killed were never really recognized beyond having fought for their country. One of the most memorable characters in the story All Quiet On the Western Front is a French soldier named Gerard Duval‚ because he symbolizes the millions of good people that lost their lives during the Great War. All soldiers in the war were trained not to care about anything but war itself‚ and to only pay attention to the main objective they must complete. The French solider
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