“All Quiet on the Western Front” is one of the most influential war novels. It is significant because it features views and feeling of soldiers, who served during World War I, from their perspective. Author, Erich Maria Remarque, was a veteran himself so everything that is written in the novel is coming from his own experience. One of the best qualities of this book and the reason for its success is the writing style. Remarque uses symbolism, imagery, narrator point of view, specific tone and allegory
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Thesis/Introduction: In Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, he describes the firsthand experiences of soldiers in the war, in an extremely romantic and emotional standpoint. The sentimental language coupled with literary devices such as imagery help us understand just how gruesome the war was from a lense that we cannot derive from our history textbooks. The information that we assimilate from reading textbooks is that of an atomized society, where the individual does not matter in the general
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‘All Quiet on the Western Front’, by Erich Remarque tells the story of life for a soldier on and off of the battlefield. This novel has left many people rethinking war and how it has impacted on people today. The close bonds with the dead comrades, the lost generation and the realisation of who they are fighting are all things impacting the soldiers emotionally and physically. The way Remarque writes this novel shows that it is a powerful anti-war novel filled with physical horrors, blood, sweat
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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;
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In "All Quiet on the Western Front", when the kaiser was going to visit, everyone one was excited to see the great emperor of Germany. The Kaiser was talked about being very important, but he had such a minor role in the book. A quote from the book is: At last it leaks out -- the Kaiser is coming to review us. Hence all the inspections… At last the moment arrives. We stand to attention and the Kaiser appears. We are curious to see what he looks like. He stalks along the line, and I am rather disappointed;
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All Quiet on the Western Front During the course of the book All Quiet on the Western Front the trench warfare was terrible, the men were faced with inhaling toxic chemicals, uncomfortable situations, starvation and having to fight off the rats to protect their food. Living conditions and the lack of food was also another major contribution of the men slowly becoming worn out. Throughout this long battle there were also some challenges for instance the muddy conditions, classmates and close friends
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How All Quiet on the Western Front Changes Hearts and Minds Stephen Crane’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” gives a new perspective into the real terror and dehumanizing violence of war and its impact on the soldiers who fought it. Instead of romanticizing and glorifying the war, the book gives an accurate description of war as soldiers experienced it allowing readers to be more adequately informed. It is a strong anti-war rhetoric due to its accurate depiction of the false romantic ideals, dehumanization
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Author Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is an anti-war novel that explores how the hostility and terror of war impacts the men on the Front line. Remarque does this by focusing on key stylistic conventions that transform the characters of the novel which eventually leads to a form of alienation. This approach is a somewhat reflection of Remarque’s war experiences and how he himself was changed by the elements of war. This realistic approach to the novel and its themes allowed Remarque
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Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front captures the suffering caused by war. The novel is well written and articulate, truly showing the horrors of war. Reading the book, I was amazed by the detail and portrayal of Paul’s experience. The book was surprising at times, inciting emotion and realization. Remarque succeeds in exposing war for what it is: a violent and unnecessary event. The chapter in which Albert and Paul are in the hospital is the most memorable part of the book
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In All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque writes, “We are none of us more than twenty. But youth? That is long ago. We are old folk.” This means that even though these people in the war are barely adults they've been through an experience that makes them feel and act older. One experience was when Behm, one of their friends, was shot and they left him for dead, only to see him out in no man's land later that afternoon. Also “Because he couldn’t see and failed to keep cover, he was shot
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