...behavioral differences. All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich M. Remarque) and Perseus (Bernard Evslin) were two very different stories with two very different themes. All Quiet on the Western Front had many different ways of portraying its darker themes, one example of this is derived from the quote “It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war.”(5). This obviously portrays that war is a crushing force that destroys the participants inside and out....
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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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...The Horrific Experience; War War has been a consistent theme throughout history and it has always been terrible for society, men come back suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the experience of war. The only way to truly understand the horrors of war, is to see it in the eyes of someone who has experienced it. That is why the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the excerpt ¨In the Field”by Tim O'Brien, and the poems “Dulce Et Decorum Est” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen exemplify the true horrors of war, through their vivid imagery of the psychological torment, and physical duress that is experienced in the time of war. The psychological torment that soldiers go through is unlike any other,...
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...Macbeth’s hand to kill King Duncan. At this point in time when the next quote is said, all we know in Macbeth is that Macbeth is the Thane of Glamis. ““All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” (1.3.53) This quote is after the fact that Macbeth hears he will also become the Thane of Cawdor. In this quote, many people interpret that the witches are shaping the future, but they are wrong. In the next quote, Macbeth is imagining the killing of King Duncan. This is not something that the witches told him he had to do in order to become King. “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,”(1.3.152). In this quote, Macbeth...
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...and cannot control them.” There are two novels that I have read that this quote applies to. The novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is about two migrant farm workers, George and Lenny, who get into trouble due to the fact that Lenny is slow minded and huge in physical stature. The other novel that comes to mind is Night by Elieser Wiesel. In this novel, Elie is part of the deportation to Nazi concentration camps during World War II. In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses characterization to portray the characters and help the reader get to know them. In this book, Lenny is a very large man but is mentally handicapped. George, his friend since childhood, takes Lenny under his wing and tries to keep him out of trouble while still saving up money for their dream. The two men’s dream consist of buying a little farm house far away from everybody while having animals and “living off the land.” This dream is almost within reach until Lenny makes a life changing mistake and accidentally kills his boss’s daughter in-law by strangling her trying to keep her quiet. Then, all of the farm hands are sent out in a search party to find Lenny. George finds Lenny first and ends up shooting him in the back of the head while Lenny is in the middle of a day dream so that way the other men could not torture him and he died while being happy. George had no control of what Lenny did and had to kill him in order to save himself from personal guilt. In the autobiography...
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...and the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" written by Harper Lee both share the common theme of prejudice, specifically racial prejudice. Throughout both texts the authors purposefully discuss the issues regarding racial prejudice. They share a similar over meaning and central idea. The central idea shared is that the color of someone skin can affect the mount of respect they receive and how the person is treated. Sadly, people would assume mostly negative things about a person if they were colored, and...
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...“War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.”-Karl Kraus. The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, displays how the brutality of war continues to affect generations of soldiers. The horrors war can cause are timeless. Remarque shows this by writing about how war causes suffering not only towards the family of soldiers, but to soldiers themselves. He describes how when back home after the war, soldiers feel out of place. He also talks about how war brings out the worst in people and how it affects the mental/emotional health of soldiers. The lives of sons, daughters, parents and friends are lost for the purpose of what? War. The effects these losses can cause are seen when Maria Remarque states, “I must go and see Kemmerich's mother. I cannot write that down. This quaking, sobbing woman who shakes me and cries out on me: "Why are you living then, when he is dead?"--who drowns me in tears and calls out: "What are you there for at all, child, when you --"--who drops into a chair and wails: "Did you see him?...
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...opened with a quote “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within”-Will Durant. Then the camera focuses on the outskirts of a forest slowly zooming in and introducing us to a group of Mayan villagers chasing a wild boar. This scene is where we are introduced to the main character, Jaguar Paw. Jaguar Paw was the son of the chief of the village. As they are splitting the meat of the pig they caught another tribe wanders by only asking for permission to pass. The presumed leader of that passing tribe warns Jaguar Paw that they are leaving because their campsite was invaded. Jaguar Paw and the Chief noticed the looks fear and terror on their faces. However they push this back in their mind and started to head back to their village. That night they gathered around their elders to hear stories and everything went on without disruption. Next morning, Jaguar Paw and his wife are awakened by a barking dog. Jaguar Paw’s wife tells him to make the dog be quiet. But when the dog stopped barking on its own Jaguar Paw became suspicious of what was going on outside. That is when he sees an invading tribe member with a torch run by. He quickly wakes up his wife and son and they begin to run for cover as the invading tribe kills many men and women. Jaguar Paw takes his wife and son to a dry well and lowers them into it for safety. One of the invading tribesmen sees Jaguar Paw at the top of the cave and begins to charge to try and kill him. Jaguar...
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...Focusing of 2 texts from different eras, discuss how text reflect values of their context. Medieval literature and the renaissance literature was a period of time where religion and values were important, good and evil was widely distinct and the political structure was highly valued depending on the individual’s background. These factors had huge influence on how and why literature was raised. Middle ages was a more a time of religious fears and, scientific and cultural progress was considered evil which made stories more conservative, harsh and heroic. One of the famous medieval text includes Thomas Malory and the Morte D’Arther. The text is a fusion of historical and pre-Christian magical elements. On the other hand, the renaissance was quiet different to medieval period, it was the rebirth of individualism, humanism and free thinking. Renaissance writing, by contrast showed interest in writing, arts and culture. One of the key philosophical elements of the renaissance was the rise of humanism and precursor to the age of enlightenment. Renaissance literature and arts became more invested in the hands of rich and powerful. One of the famous renaissance text includes a Petrarchan sonnet called the Holy Sonnet 10 by John Donne. The sonnet has a lot of religious and biblical context of god, death and eternal life. It highlights the insignificance of death that it should not be feared, it reveals human dignity and happiness and individual freedom. These 2 texts from the medieval and...
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...In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, there are many lessons that each character learns throughout the novel. Scout, the main character, learns the most from many different experiences she is able to witness. Although Scout’s formal schooling is disappointing, she learns many valuable lessons from real life. Scout learns many valuable lessons based on things that she and other characters in the novel get to experience. For example, in the novel, Scout and Jem get air-rifles, yet Atticus will not teach them how to shoot them. This leads to Miss Maudie explaining that their father said “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy...they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a...
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...“I now walk into the wild.” Those were the eerie almost-haunting last words written in a letter by Chris McCandless addressed to Wayne Westerberg. One of many people that McCandless spent time with while during his compelling & exhilarating grand odyssey across America before his trip to Alaska. For as he described in his journal “The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution.” Informatively written and researched by award winning adventure writer and journalist John Krakauer. He has pieced together a compelling and investigative look at what happened during the two years that McCandless shed his possessions and hit the road traveling across the country up until, his tragic death as...
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...People look at soldiers as either heroes or killers. In the time around World War I, the Front soldiers are more like animals. In All Quiet in the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, the soldiers on the Front are faced with life or death situations and have to use their instincts to survive. Paul Baumer is the main character and has his group of friends that were convinced to join the military by one of their old teachers. They go into the war as young men who have a bright future and are doing this to be looked at as brave. These young soldiers are instantly mortified by the dramatic deaths taking place at the Front. They have to survive off of a small ration of food. The sad part is that the soldiers do not even get sad when people die,...
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...This poem relates most to the book due to the awareness of the oddities of war concerning proclaimed enemies. Within All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul faces an internal struggle and an overall confusion towards the notion of enemies. Within this poem, it is explained that if the narrator met a man in a bar, he would drink with him and become friendly, however, since they are in the war, the same man who he would drink with is now an enemy. This relates to the book as Paul believes this same thing; when thinking about the Russian prisoners and their lack of animosity, Paul says, “And yet we would shoot at them again and they at us if they were free” (194). This reoccurring message holds the same meaning as this poem; both mean to say that...
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...2.c. The Lord of the Flies is a novel about a group of young boys who crash on an island. While they’re stuck on the island they manage to establish some order and civilization by choosing a leader and by using a conch shell to arrange meetings between the boys. The established civilization crumbles as the book goes on because some of the boys can’t control their animalistic qualities. The boys waddle between the human instinct of savagery and the civilized ways of order, which they’re taught from home. Despite the fact that they try to establish order they become more and more drawn towards savagery throughout the book. The sow’s head and the conch shell are both symbols of power, but in different ways. After Jack and his hunters kill the sow, Roger determinedly drives his spear up the sow’s anus. This is described barbarically. It wasn’t necessary for Roger to spear the sow’s anus, but in the savage frenzy he was in, he couldn’t resist the feeling of power. He was in control over the animal. They leave the sow’s head on a sharpened stick in the jungle as an offering to the...
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...senator, going to the funeral of Tom Doniphan, “the man who shot Liberty Valance.” At the climax of the film Ransom Stoddard appears to kill Liberty Valance, and thus is voted upon to be the senator after the territories officially join the United States. This would be ideal enough, showing the death of western outlaw freedom, named Liberty Valance no less, but in reality it is shown that Liberty was in fact killed by Tom Doniphon. Tom Doniphon, the personification of the west, kills its last true bastion of true freedom, and leads to his own eventual death and worthlessness in the eyes of the people. After Liberty Valance is killed, Tom Doniphon is erratic, drunken, loud and abrasive, and even tries to kill himself by burning down his home on the range, then letting all his horses go free. Tom Doniphon realizes he has made himself obsolete, and if he had not saved Ransom Stoddard and not killed Liberty Valance, he would continue on, but he cannot. The death of the west is inevitable. Through The Man who Shot Liberty Valance, two characters are in conflict as the main protagonist, and each represents something different. John Wayne’s character, Tom Doniphon, is the quintessential western hero; strong, quiet, and slow. This is shown through the quote about schooling; “Why have you been wasting time here? Get to work. Your schooling's over.” or his quote on toughness, the most desired and shown quality in the traditional western, “Liberty Valance is the toughest man south of the Picketwire...
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