In a time period filled with war and conflict‚ the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a difficult read due to the heavy topic it pertains to. The story begins with Paul Bӓumer and his friends from school joining the army. They joined because they thought war would be honorable thanks to Kantorek‚ their teacher. After their ten weeks of training and their first two weeks of being on the front lines‚ only eighty of the one hundred fifty men return. Paul’s friend‚ Franz
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survive another day in war? Erich Maria Remarque‚ the author of the realistic war novel All Quiet on the Western Front . All Quiet on the Western Front categorizes itself as “The greatest war novel of all time” so the genre of the book is realistic fiction and a war novel. The book depicts a story of young adults that enlist in the army and fights for the german frontlines while in war many of them die and their friends and family have to grief over their lost. Erich Maria Remarque’s novel main focuses
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Sam Monroe 9/21/10 All Quiet Essay Words: 822 The Two Sides of Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front There are figuratively two Paul Baumer’s in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. Paul becomes a different person when he joins the army. Before the war‚ Paul went to school and wrote poetry and led the normal life of a teenager. When he enlists in the military‚ he remains the same person on the outside‚ but changes drastically on the inside. This change
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Western Front have unique similarities and differences. They both deal with war. The Man with the Broken Finger is a poem by Carl Sandburg and was written about World War II. All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel written by Erich Remarque and it deals with World War I. Erich Remarque was born in Germany and his novel All Quiet on the Western Front its characters are members of the German military. Carl Sandburg is from Illinois and his poem deals with an American war hero. These two literary works
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Company K Company K From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Company K Author William March Country United States Language English Genre Novel Publisher Smith and Haas (USA) & Victor Gollancz Limited (UK) Publication date January 1933 (USA) & March 1933 (UK) Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 260 pp ISBN 978-0-8173-0480-5
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All Quiet On the Western Front‚ written by author Erich Maria Remarque‚ takes readers through a series of events in which the main character‚ Paul Baumer‚ ends up eventually being a true shattered‚ broken man. Remarque takes readers through Baumer’s transformation‚ as he starts out a hometown‚ naive‚ schoolboy who enjoys reading plays and eating potato-cakes‚ and is changed to that truly broke and shattered man as he is struggling to survive World War I on the front. Prior to the war‚ Paul’s schoolmaster
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Both Paul Baumer of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and Brutus of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar are innocent and trusting when introduced to the reader‚ but after experiencing indescribable pain‚ both become realistic stoics without hope for a better life. Both characters’ naiveté leads them to make a fatal error. Because of their mistakes‚ Paul and Brutus suffer horrifying experiences and must do things that they later regret. The trauma that they must live through
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Ian Johnson 1 May 2013 Mr. Morris World Lit. War Through the Eyes of Erich Remarque A soldier must have the mentality of‚ “I must kill or I’ll be killed” or they will surely perish. Taking this idea to heart can be a very moralistic test that most people can’t handle. All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels ever written because of its exposing graphic depiction of war. In the short note before Chapter One‚ Remarque lets the reader know exactly what themes he intends
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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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In all Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque the main argument is the tragedy of war. Through detailing the experience of the main character Paul‚ the terror a young soldier goes through is exposed. It is shown how in war many people die‚ that leaders are unfair and nothing good comes out of it. The war was a tragic event that could have been resolved with peace and treaties‚ therefore moving forward wars should be avoided. In all Quiet on the Western front tragic events happen in
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