...War is a life changer. In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Paul Bäumer engaged in what would be the fight for his country and life. Paul was a 19 year old boy who was persuaded to join the German Army shortly after World War 1 by his schoolteacher. Unknowingly, he and his schoolmates have signed up for their own deaths. During the war, they matured both physically and mentally with concise thoughts and actions, eventually feeling disconnected and out-of-place when entering society. Through its gruesome and emotional moments, Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front portrays the grim reality and rare glories of war. The inevitable constituent of war is death. With deaths from both sides of a battle, families are broken apart and friendships are broken. War changes people from innocent individuals to killing machines. Many are deprived of their sense of feeling for others, which restrains their ability to connect with the outside world, since it becomes a challenge to connect with people in a personal level. As Remarque stated, “even though they may have escaped shells, [they] were destroyed by the war”. Fortunately for Paul Bäumer, only his mental state suffered through the conflicts, but many of his close friends have died in the line of duty, leaving him a shell of what he once was. Their deaths were...
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...Furthermore, Maria’s courage also shows through her action of escaping from the hotel where she stays with the drug dealers and other smugglers. More specifically, her journey to New York would be full of fear. Among the smugglers, one is incarcerated at the airport and the other one, Lucy, is killed by the drug dealers. Maria who found how they cruelly murdered Lucy tries to convince Blanca that they should leave the place immediately to survive in spite of the blackmail that she gave. Maria is threatened before the journey that if she escapes, deadly reprisals would be taken against her family and she would be killed if one pellet breaks or is found missing. In spite of the horrible blackmail, she decides to escape from the hotel room only...
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...Paul is 19 with his whole life ahead of him, he may be naive on occasion but he really is the typical teenage boy with similar traits to myself. We’re both loving people with a curiosity for life and the outside world. But then to enlist in WWI and to become placed on the front line, you would have to cast aside your emotion, sympathy, and morals; to then become an animalistic, gun-toting soldier your officers emphasize upon you. For example when Kemmerich a close friend of Paul is in the hospital due to contracting gangrene, Muller a friend of Paul requested to take Kemmerich's boots as they were hard to come by. Tragically when Muller dies, Paul then eventually takes on the boots of two dead comrades following unforeseen events taking place after. This shows how fear, and the loss of a close friend is push to the side as the need for basic survival is the primary focus. But as a person you don’t change by choice, the war changes...
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...In the course of war, one usually encounters immense challenges and undergoes terrible heartbreak due to the abhorrent events seen and experienced during combat. Paul Baumer goes through the hardest and most mentally trying events during warfare, constantly testing his will to continue fighting for his country. Baumer has already experienced the loss of close comrades, so the start to a sudden fall of many others ceases his motivation to move on. As the war begins, men quickly die around Paul and “all at once everything seems to [him] confused and helpless”, making him feel worthless to his combatants (Remarque 87). With the recent deaths that have occurred on the front, Paul faces constant challenges causing the aura of helplessness. When...
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...For my Book Talk, I read the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, and the character I'll be using for the Horoscope Profile is Paul Bäumer, the main character in the story. After I have finished the novel, I've noticed that Paul Bäumer for sure fits the description of a Taurus, the sign of the bull. The first reason why I chose the Taurus zodiac sign because a Taurus is always deliberate in actions and making decisions. As what horoscopedates.com put it in their website “This sign is often very deliberate in their actions, relaxed, and enjoys all of the sensual pleasures that abound in this dimension. Food, drink, and luxury, are all sought after by the typical taruean because this sign loves luxury and they are willing to work hard to obtain it moreover they are slow to anger, but once disturbed they can be volatile.” This description best suits Paul because at one point through the novel he and his friends were hiding in a dugout due to heavy fire and mortar strike, few hours later his friends decided to leave the dugout but Paul told them that he had a feeling that if they go out they will get killed, however one of his...
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...Destiny Boynton Guss, P.3 English 10 VADA H 7 March 2017 All Quiet on the Western Front Essay Throughout the book, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the book shows us Remarque’s thoughts on war through the main character Paul. In the book Paul is put through many traumatizing situations that ends up having a great effect on him, which changes his personality throughout the book. War pressures Paul into acting a certain way he was not used to back at home, which slowly breaks down Paul’s self being all through the book. This shows us the effects war has on people’s thoughts and actions in the military, which is an important reason why Remarque believes war to be unfortunate. Paul’s emotions were constantly changing,...
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...Room early in the morning. While he is their he is told that he will be sent on a “vacation” for 17 days. This is called a leave. Paul packs up his things and says goodbye to his friends. While all the men are talking Paul tells them that on the way home he will be sent to a camp for two weeks to train. When Paul finally arrived home it didn't feel right. Immediately he felt the change of his town that he grew up in. Even though his family greeted him and was happy to seem him, Paul was anxious to head back to war. While he was home his parents and older sister told him that his mother had cancer. Paul’s family was poor and wasn't fortunate. However, they were so interested...
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...Over the course of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul Bäumer struggles to find the purpose that the war has taken away from him. Before enlisting, Paul was a dedicated author who knew what he was meant to do in life: to finish his book. However, the war took that part of his life away from him. He eventually finds what he must do; Paul feels that it is important for him to try to stop war. This comes to a head after he kills a French soldier and realizes that the French “are poor devils like [Paul and his friends]”, and that they are really quite similar. Throughout this entire process, nature is used to advance these realizations and everything that Paul must go through in order to come to them. When Paul is going out to the front with his regiment, he begins to ponder over his life in the war. To him, “the front is a mysterious whirlpool… [which pulls him] slowly, irresistibly,...
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...Paul appears to have an infelicitous fate that is written out for him as soon as he joins the army. Right in the beginning of “All Quiet On The Western Front”, Paul is doomed to an undesired fate. However, near the middle-end of the book he seems to gain hope for his future. Erich Maria Remarque, the author of this novel does a good job demonstrating how Paul lives during the war. When Paul is at war the audience is given the sense that he is sentenced to a life of misery that one cannot escape. But after a terrifying encounter that changes him, he is given a sense of hope. Paul is doomed from the beginning of the novel, but the actions of the war give him hope for the future. Paul is doomed to a poor future when he is at war. Paul begins losing his sense of humanity. He seems to only view the facts as being...
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...World War I is one of the deadliest and bloodiest wars in the human race. Soldiers’ humanities were harshly affected during this war. Troops drastically changed both mentally and physically. Some found no point in being alive and even committed suicide. In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, the protagonist Paul Baumer is portrayed to be not fond of expressing emotions, lonely, and caring. The novel shows that Paul is not fond of expressing emotions that he even regrets taking a leave from war to visit home. When Paul is on leave. he is forced to let out many emotions and feels as if he is a burden on himself and his mother. He even regrets leaving the war saying, “I was a soldier and now I am a nothing but an agony for myself,...
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...abyss of sorrow.” (Pg. 263) All Quiet on the Western Front is a surreal story of a young man named Paul Baumer, who was tricked into war by his teacher Kantock who gave a powerful “patriotic speech about how all these young men in his class can become heroes and grow into strong men if they joined the World War I. These young innocent boys were convinced and went to fight for the “Motherland.” So they went to basic training. Quickly after joining the military Paul and his classmates realize that it’s not all what Mr. Kantock made it out to be. They were pushed hard by their most hated Corporal Himmelstoss, who was very power hungry small man, who was once their postman. They were pushed hard in basic training but it was nothing compared to the horrific things they were about to experience on the Western Front. When the young men arrived to the Western Front they immediately figured out that the war isn’t really as “Glorious” as it was previously explained. Paul and his classmates were thrown into the battle field and “”””””””””””””. They got a rude, scary, horrific awakening by the war. There is “nothing heroic about...
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...In the war novel All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Paul Baumer is a very significant character. Paul is a character that conveys Remarque’s experiences and point of view to the readers. Paul and his friends are faced with the intensity of the war, which causes them to disconnect their feelings and lose their emotions. Soon, Pauls lifestyle is shaped to be around war. The war diminished Paul and turned his life into constant suffering. Paul’s character undergoes a changes throughout the novel, when he is induced with the horror and anxiety of the war. Paul Baumer is a character representative of all soldiers because he faces the same difficulties a typical soldier would face. In the war, Paul had seen his close friends...
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...In the book, when a fellow tribute named Rue who she befriends, is killed in the games. This causes Katniss to feel guilty that she had not been able to save Rue. When she goes to tours to express her loyalty to the capitol, but when she goes to Rue’s district, she starts to have less grief for the district. pg 49 1st paragraph The main conflict in All Quiet on the Western Front is internal conflict vs man. Internal conflict vs man Paul is battling against himself in surviving in the army. He needed to think about staying in this army or leaving by seeing all of the deaths occurring. This conflict is resolved by Paul fighting through the war and surviving the war. Analysis I – Ethics: Do characters in the stories display moral courage? How do characters in the stories decide what is right and wrong? Which character do you relate to most?...
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... | |Students who decide to write this type of essay should be aware of what is meant by the term ‘personal informed | |interpretation’. Think of this phrase as three separate words: | | | |‘Personal’ - What does the novel mean to you? How does it make you feel? This does not have to be a positive feeling - just | |because someone you know loves this novel above all others, does not mean that you have to! However, do not just write your | |essay in the form of a ‘rant’ - your reasons, whether you love or loathe the novel, must be reasoned and reasonable, but | |above all, personal. | | | |‘Informed’ - Your essay must demonstrate that you have understood the novel. In addition, you will be required to endorse | |this understanding with wider, relevant reading, showing that you have selected and studied appropriate texts in order to | |support your arguments....
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...Introduction of JDB Group JDB Group is a Chinese manufacturer of nonalcoholic beverages; these include the red-canned herbal drink, Wong Lo Kat and other tea ranges. JDB was founded by Hong Kong businessman Chan Hung-to in Guangzhou in 1995 after he acquired the licensing rights to Wong Lo Kat, an herbal tea brand established in Guangzhou more than 150 years ago. The herbal tea is popular in southern China. It is made from herbs and is believed to be able to lower internal heat and relieve inflammation. With a sharp business sense, Chan positioned Wong Lo Kat as a healthy, mass market soft drink and packaged it in eye-catching red aluminum cans emblazoned with bold golden Chinese characters. The company also built large production lines and established a widespread sales network through supermarkets, grocery stores and restaurants in Guangdong. The efforts paid off as annual sales of Wong Lo Kat grew rapidly to reach 100 million Yuan in 2000. From 2003, the company started to expand beyond Guangdong. It built plants in Beijing, Zhejiang and Fujian, and invested heavily in marketing and television advertising, making the sweet-tasting beverage known across the country. Sales shot up to 600 million Yuan in 2003. Four years later, JDB surpassed Coca-Cola as the biggest seller of canned drinks on the mainland, with annual sales of 17 billion Yuan, according to statistics from the China Industrial Information Issuing Centre. Introduction of America Geography United States...
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