"All Quiet On The Western Front: War and Authority Corruption" It is always easier to say how you would respond to war while looking upon it as an outsider who has seen little outside of movies and pictures. We tell ourselves "I could never imagine doing that"‚ or "How could any human be so corrupt?" That is what we say‚ but I wonder what those same men said just prior to their war time experience. Surely they would not follow the same path that so many before them had‚ choosing to
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In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ author Erich Maria Remarque reinforces the idea that war is horrific‚ through his use of visual‚ auditory‚ and tactile imagery. Towards the end of the second chapter of the book‚ Remarque begins to disillusionize the glorious imagery of war by describing the death of Kemmerich‚ a German soldier and a fellow classmate of the protagonist Paul. Paul and his other classmates that enlisted sit by Kemmerich’s deathbed‚ illustrating the mourning for their comrade by saying
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War Destroys Innocence Even though a book has far more space to talk about its thematic reason‚ there are many commonalities between books and poems. “All Quiet on the Western Front” was written by Erich Maria Remarque. The theme of the novel can be related to the theme of “Peace” by Rupert Brooke. The theme of both the novel and the book is “war destroys innocence”. The poem and the novel both display many examples of this. In “All Quiet on the Western Front” it explains how even though in
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All Quiet on the Western Front In the book “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Remarque‚ the author uses nature‚ and comradeship‚ to describe what the characters are going through. Erich uses nature in several ways‚ such as describing how the soldiers are facing terrible hardships‚ also it reflects on their sadness‚ and provides a contrast to the unnatural world of war. The author also uses the theme Comradeship through all the horrifying pictures of death and inhumanity‚ he talks about when
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Both the poem‚ The Man with the Broken Fingers and the novel All Quiet on the 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
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Erich Maria Remarque’s account of life as a soldier in World War I‚ as described in All Quiet on the Western Front‚ paints a shockingly realistic portrait of the horrors of war and how it affects the men who experienced trench warfare firsthand. Remarque draws upon his own experience as a soldier and tells his story through Paul Bäumer‚ the novel’s main character‚ who is a young German man who is sent to serve his nation on the battlefield. Remarque uses Bäumer to convey the significant psychological
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War‚ the waging of armed conflict against an enemy‚ (as described in the dictionary)‚ made the world a time of major destruction from 1914 to 1918. World War 1‚ aka The Great War‚ was a time of bloody battles. 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
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“Strange to say‚ Behm was one of the first to fall. He got hit in the eye during the attack‚ and we left him lying for dead. We couldn’t bring him with us‚ because we had to come back helter-skelter. In the afternoon suddenly we hear him call‚ and saw him crawling about in No Man’s Land. He had only been knocked unconscious. Because he could not see‚ and was mad with pain‚ he failed to keep under cover‚ and so was shot down before
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All Quiet on the Western Front a novel by Erich Maria Remarque‚ who was also a German veteran from World War I. Remarque’s novel is about a young German named Paul Bäumer who joins the Imperial German military with his friends and goes to fight on the Western Front during World War I. Paul and his friends were encouraged by Kantorek‚ their teacher‚ to join the German army because it was a patriotic thing to do. When they reach the Western Front‚ they begin to realize the horrors of war. Paul is given
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“This book…will try simply to tell of a generation of men who‚ even though they may have escaped shells‚ were destroyed by the war” (Remarque Preface). All Quiet on the Western Front‚ written by Erich Maria Remarque‚ tells a story of a young soldier‚ as he and his friends fight for the German army during World War I. The novel is narrated from the point of view of Paul Bäumer. He is nineteen years old and‚ like many of his classmates‚ he joins the German army. The story follows as they fight through
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