Max’s Note: The themes of these stories cannot be accurately compared because of the time period and acceptable behavioral differences. 1918 is not the same thing as 700 BC, and the themes of the books reflect upon the 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
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Theme Art Explanation One of the themes of the pearl is greed that corrupts the minds of people and makes them want more and greed is a corruptive influence. The doctor, the priest, and the people envy for the pearl’s wealth and want things from the wealth of the pearl. The pearl’s wealth changes the good people to become greedy for wanting money and wealth from the pearl. The picture shown shows the greediness of the doctor, the priest, Kino, and one of the townspeople and how the wealth of
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Every soldier is affected by war. They are changed and shaped by the situations that they are placed in on the battlefield. This idea is especially exemplified during The Great War. Each soldier was confronted with a multitude of unfamiliar weapons and feelings that they had never experienced before. Despite the fact that Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and Thomas Hardy’s “The Man he Killed” were written with the perspectives of separate soldiers in mind, the characters’ perception of war
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fore front. Erich Remarque, a german veteran, displays the actuality of war through images of mass violence, descriptions of new weapons and machinery, and the individual lives of soldiers on the forefront. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque conveys physical wartime experiences to highlight the assault on soldiers’ understandings of themselves in regards to a loss of identity and loss of humane behavior as a result of the physical and psychological toll World War I brought upon
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No one was prepared for how horrific World War I turned out to be. The war killed thousand of lives. Those who survived the war were torn and scarred from the horrific things they had witnessed. There are many people that expressed their traumatic memories of the war through song, book, or poem. In the book All Quiet On The Western Front it shows the horrors soldiers had to go through from the perspective of a young soldier named Paul. Paul and his fellow soldiers walk on after a hard battle, “It
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In The Pearl by John Steinbeck, the pearl diver Kino’s son is stung by a poisonous scorpion. Given their last chance, Kino and his wife, Juana, go pearl diving, and discover the “Pearl of the World”, which gives them hope and security, but while also giving them greed and danger. One of the many themes in this book are the struggle between good and evil. This struggle is shown by Kino looking into the pearl for the future, Kino’s “self-defense” killing rampage, and Juana’s chance to throw the
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All Quiet on the Western Front Q1: I resemble myself as Paul Bäumer. The reasons why is because when he took a leave, he thought about his friends back in war. He brought food for his friends when he returned from leave like potato cakes. He even ate the rotten potato cakes so that his friends could eat fresh good ones. That's something that I would do because I would feel guilty if I had food, but my friends didn't have any food. He's caring towards others. For example, when Franz was in the hospital
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Author Erich Maria Remarque poses throughout the entirety of the novel, The Road Back, the question of what the effects of World War I are on German youth caught in the line of fire. Often, we are left wondering what is to come for these soldiers and how they will assimilate back into ordinary civilian life. Before entering the war they were but mere children; now they have matured and witnessed hardships far greater than many will ever experience. As Remarque’s second novel, The Road Back can be
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writings of Mary Wollstonecraft by Steven Blakemore, Maria J. Falco, Cindy L. Griffin, and Vivian Jones. Three of the four authors take a feminist approach: Falco provides a collection of feminist critiques of Wollstonecraft’s work; Griffin asserts that Wollstonecraft is the first author to write about an alienation from the perspective of women’s issues and rights; and Jones’s essay comments on the sexualizing of the historical narrative by Helen Maria Williams and Mary Wollstonecraft. Blakemore provides
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Title Imagine it’s the 1400s in Europe and a four-year-old boy has been taken away from his family to endure years of harsh training. But he will be a warrior, protecting the land and the civilians. He will be a knight, the warrior class of Europe. It started out similarly for a samurai, the warrior class of Japan. Despite these similar beginnings, samurais and knights were different because they trained differently, had different armor, and their view on death was different. Training was different
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