After selling over 50 million copies and enjoying translation into 55 languages‚ Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front has been a very successful novel. Upon the book’s publication in 1929 the book was an instant success in the war boom era‚ and is considered by many to be the greatest war novel of all time. The main character‚ Paul‚ accompanied by fellow comrades‚ demonstrates the difficulties faced on the front line of World War I and the hardships of returning home to a broken
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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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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 is a historical fiction novel written by German author Erich Maria Remarque in the late 1920s. It is narrated by Paul Baumer‚ a young man who joined the army voluntarily after listening a patriotic speech from his teacher‚ Kantorek. Paul shared his experiences and stories during the time he fought in the German army on the French front in World War I. Paul Baumer is a nineteen years old high school student. He and several of his friends from school were encouraged
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How would you feel if you relied on luck to keep you alive? I think in WWI that the worst thing that happened was the shellings and not knowing were to go or what to 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
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for the Satanic glory of war” and of Canada’s duty to stop the anti‐Christian hordes. After the war‚ a number of novels challenged the notion that the war was somehow a crusade or fought for a greater cause. The most famous of these war novels is Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front‚ which provides a first‐hand account of the war from the point of view of the ordinary German soldier. A year before Remarque’s novel appeared‚ Charles Yale Harrison published Generals Die in Bed‚ written
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Paul The novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front is the harshest story about war ever written. This novel was written by Erich Maria Remarque‚ based on his real life experience about World War 1. It tells a story about a group of companions at war and how they live their life everyday there. After analyzing the novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ readers realized that almost all the characters were either very noble or not noble at all. The one character that stood out of all the character for
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All Quiet on the western Front The earth‚ as in the soil beneath our feet‚ is taken for granted every single day‚ but never by a soldier on the front lines. Erich Maria Remarque explains this through his character Paul Bäumer in the excerpt of his novel All Quiet on the Western Front. Paul is explaining the effects that war on the front can leave with a soldier‚ the hopelessness‚ instinct of an animal‚ and appreciation for things as simple as the earth that we walk on. While explaining these effects
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Throughout the story‚ All Quiet on the Western Front can be classified in many themes that befits the novel written by Erich Maria Remarque. The journey includes how people changed their definition of war‚ correlating to what they experienced‚ a taste of how it felt‚ feeling as if it changed them mentally and physically. Before and after the war‚ the experiences gained affected them‚ throughout the whole novel as the theme of identity appears‚ defining the concept of war. As if words are not enough
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The Sorrows of War and the Glorious Lies Is it really worth it? Is the simple order by a superior officer enough for someone to spill the blood of innocent soldiers? In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ a novel by Erich Maria Remarque‚ a group of soldiers learn the hard way about the realities of war. They encounter trench warfare and hand-to-hand combat and slowly see how horrible the war is. Using the book‚ the author expresses his hatred towards war and how only evil comes from it. The emotions
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