Meredith Cheyenne Professor Brillman EUH 2030 August 30, 2014 All Quiet on the Western Front All quiet on the western front is said to be the greatest war novel of all time. Written by Erich Remarque, this novel is set in the early 1900’s during World War 1. It is told in the voice of Paul Baumer, a young German soldier who joins the war to fight on the French front. We follow the events of Paul’s life during the war as well as his group of comrades with whom he lives and learns. While Paul
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glorification of war. All Quiet on the Western Front shows life on the battlefield during WWI, as well the effects and influences off the battlefield. The protagonist of the film, Paul Bäumer is a young German soldier who joins the war shortly after finishing high school. Paul and other young soldiers are trained in harsh conditions and learn the basics of combat. Once they enter the war Paul and other soldiers see what life is truly like on the battlefield. When he goes onto the front for the first time
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All Quiet on the Western Front Sometimes people go through traumatizing experiences that make them question their morals. Has this happened to you? In Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, he demonstrates how humanity exists through Paul’s traumatizing experiences through fighting in the war against the French and Russians, lack of rations during the war, and guilt of starving Russian soldiers. In this novel, Eric shows how common humanity exists by demonstrating Paul’s traumatizing
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All quiet on the western front is a historical fiction novel, by Erich Remarque, that describes the life of German soldiers during World War I, and it illustrates themes including effects of war on soldiers. “This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by war” (epigraph
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German author Erich Maria Remarque based All Quiet on the Western Front on his own experiences as a Germany Army soldier in WWI. The imagery Remarque uses is very vivid and realistic, and it helps bring to life the intense action and emotion of the novel. One time that imagery shows is when, in the middle of the daily destruction of war, however, there exists beauty. One day, Paul sees beautiful and fragile butterflies and he says. ''The grasses sway their tall spears, the white butterflies flutter
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Throughout the compelling war story “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Paul Baumer tells the true horrific tales of World War 1. Baumer was a student along with his many other friends. They had plans for their future and dreams of having a family. As Paul and his fellow students enroll in the army their life takes a pause. They must leave their old life behind and create a new one, as a soldier. As they first joined the army they become under the control of Corporal Himmelstoss. Himmelstoss was harsh
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because of all the death that has happened but also the generation we lost in the process. World War I happened between the years 1914 through 1918; this involved all of the countries of the world even though some were neutral. Inside of the fight of the war the soldiers suffered greatly through the trenches. All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque gives us an account of the war from a soldier's perspective of World War I. The narrator of All Quiet on the Western Front is Paul
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thousands within a matter of minutes, which many soldiers could not handle, ultimately leading to “shell shock” within the soldiers. All Quiet on the Western Front depicts these tragedies vividly, and by depicting the horrors of war, and how these horrors shape men around the war, it proves to be the greatest anti-war novel to ever be written. The greatest war novel of all time must have the most disturbing imagery of the horrors of war, and while walking through desolate woods, ravaged by mortars, Paul
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Paul’s character begins the war and the novel, Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, as a child, barely out of school, and is sent into the most traumatizing event anyone during his time went through; The Great War, which stripped his innocence and turned him into a broken man. So, although his life was not doomed since the beginning, his mindset, personality, and purity were all doomed to be erased since the moment he entered battle. Throughout the war, he is subjected to the loss of his friends
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Paul Baumer of Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” doesn’t discover his identity, he creates it through a series of life-altering decisions. His evolution from 19 year old student to soldier, then to killer, and ultimately to a victim of war, can be attributed to each seemingly insignificant choice he makes. The first decision Paul makes that will change the trajectory of his life and the way he perceives himself is volunteering to join the army. The act of joining the military
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