the war. When Paul and his fellow soldiers have just been under attack by the French and the men have been exposed to the true horror of the war‚ Paul observes his own comrade being carried off after the attack. “Haie Westhus is carried off with his back torn open; you can see the lung throbbing through the wound.....” (p.g 93). Readers are confronted with disturbing images which turn many people away from war. The war does not only destroy the soldiers but also the animals that are involved in the
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lost your friends and fellow soldiers in battle. “Theme is the 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
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His mother was very ill‚ but no one knew what the cause of her illness was. When Paul was sent off for war‚ he knew in the back of his mind that there was something entirely wrong with his mother‚ but he had to keep moving forward. Paul and a few other soldiers‚ Kropp‚ Muller‚ and Leer‚ were all from the same class at home and all volunteered to join the war at the same time
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All Quiet on the Western Front In the novel ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ by Erich Maria Remarque‚ the main character Paul Bäumer’s development shows the horrors of the First World War and the effect it had on the young men who fought in it. Paul Bäumer is the main character whom is nineteen years old‚ Bäumer volunteered for the army along side four of his classmates. Some parts in the novel is written in past tense when Paul Bäumer is collecting his thoughts. Most of the novel is written
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earth mean so much as to the soldier… she is his only friend‚ his brother‚ his mother” (55). This shows that everything the soldiers had was taken from them. The soldiers have nothing else to love but the earth itself. Coming back from the front line one day‚ “Detering… came back and had a couple of branches of cherry blossom”‚ upon being questioned about it‚ he said “I have a big orchard with cherry trees at home” (275‚ 276). The cherry trees remind the soldiers of the better times when they were at
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Paul Baumer died on the most peaceful‚ beautiful day of the war. After surviving the horrible events on the front‚ the last man of his class died on that day of all days. Erich Maria Remarque tells a remarkable World War I story through the eyes of the soldier Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front. In this novel‚ Paul faces life in the roughness of trench warfare. Remarque explores the effects of war on both an entire generation and on the individual and dives into the connection between
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that he can no longer relate to his family. He doesn’t really feel as comfortable and “at home” like he used too. The sense of belonging he had at home as a kid has vanished. He can’t control his emotions when he knows there is death all around him back at the Western Front. At the beginning Paul and his friends would carry deep conversations but as the novel goes on and war gets worse the conversations take a dramatic change. They talk about eating‚ smoking and just random things to keep their mind
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War is good and bad‚ beneficial and pointless‚ but above all other things‚ immensely inhumane. Man created war‚ and with our controversial human nature egged it on. “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque is a war novel that shows the war experience and how war changes people. During the time spent at the front and at rest the soldier is turned from human to inhumane. They are taken away from the normal human emotion and placed into a state of being more animalistic and superhuman
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Erich Maria Remarque and the Nature of War David Lark – World History 2 Unlike truly historical works emphasizing the human side of war‚ for example‚ Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day or A Bridge Too Far‚ in which the author provides highly detailed accounts of historical events through the eyes of participants leading to an objective treatment and analysis of those events‚ Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is a novelization of the experience of German soldiers in
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very strong relationship between Paul and Kat‚ it is described in a way that friendship between them is silent‚ unlike the war which is totally opposite. Remarque shows a very strong effect of war on the soldier and also on the family member back home‚ the civilians of home front. Remarque shows how Paul returning home has made
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