"I am young‚ I am twenty years old; yet I know no thing of life but despair‚ death‚ fear‚ and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow...." said by Paul Baumer during his time at war in All Quiet on the Western Front. This quote represents how the war changed Paul’s view and attitude toward life. Paul‚ a once hopeful‚ sensitive boy‚ enlisted into the war right out of school‚ faced traumatizing experiences that changed him into a lonely man who saw life in a bitter‚ pessimistic way. In
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underlying message or big idea that is portrayed throughout the story” (What is Theme in Literature). In reading this book you can learn that being a soldier during any war can be a hard road to go down. In the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Remarque‚ the theme of the story is how the main character learns that the effects of war is hard for some soldiers to deal with. The novel shows this theme in at least instance; going home from war on leave‚ losing your friends in battle‚
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fistfight or a war. Necessity is the basic derivation for all hostility and aggression; therefore‚ power‚ and its corruption‚ is the source of all war. Such corruption is exemplified in the World War I novel‚ All Quiet On the Western Front‚ by Erich Remarque‚ through the eyes of the platoon leader‚ of the military officials‚ and of the highest level of power in Germany at the time‚ the Kaiser. The bottommost level of power represented in All Quiet On the Western Front is the platoon leader‚ who is
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after suffering physical‚ mentally‚ and emotionally in Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. Throughout a war‚ many men will be titled as a casualty. The amount of death resulting from war is emphasized when the narrator says‚ “On the last day an astonishing number of English heavies opened up on us with high-explosive‚ drumming ceaselessly on our position‚ so that we suffered severely and came back only eighty strong” (Remarque 2). Just before this bombardment‚ the company consisted
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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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The Disillusionment of Hemingway with War Hemingway uses certain repetitive themes and ideas in his book‚ For Whom the Bell Tolls‚ which relate to the grander dogma that he is trying to teach. By using these reoccurring ideas‚ he is able to make clear his views on certain issues and make the reader understand his thoughts. The most notable of this reoccurring theme is that of war. Hemingway uses the war concept as paradoxical irony in this book‚ to tell the reader what the thinks about war
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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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to the publishing company are ruled out of this section. If so‚ then by using knowledge gained by reading All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and The Wars by Timothy Findley‚ that statement is true. "It’s unendurable. It is the moaning of the world‚ it is the martyred creation‚ wild with anguish‚ filled with terror‚ and groaning." (Remarque‚ P62) "The ammonia in their urine would turn the chlorine into harmless
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Distant from home during a time of misery and struggle begins to make a victim of suffering change their perspective on life. The memoir‚ “Night” by Elie Wiesel‚ novel “All Quiet on the Western Front‚” by Erich Maria Remarque‚ and Life is Beautiful‚ directed by Roberto Benigni‚ all central around ordinary people whose lives change exponentially when either at war or captured during the Holocaust. Their government turns them to hostages‚ taking away their past lives. They crumble into immense feelings
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mentally‚ physically‚ and emotionally? In All Quiet On The Western Front‚ a soldier named Paul goes to war with his friends. They are really close but at the end of the war they don’t all come out of the are. All Quiet On The Western Front by Enrich Maria Remarque tells us how soldiers can be injured mentally‚ physically‚ and emotionally. The war can affect you mentally because it can change how you see the world. “Then at last i stand before the brown door with it worn latch and my hand grows heavy.” Pg
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