All Quiet on the Western Front Review The opening scene of All Quiet on the Western Front was intriguing and included a bit of foreshadowing of events to come. A teacher was teaching German nationalism in a school, telling the students they were the future of Germany. The teacher explained that they, the future soldiers, would make Germany superior to the rest of Europe. It was interesting that the teacher was talking about World War I in the class, and this beginning was
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Homework Questions for “All Quiet On The Western Front” Question 1: There are many dissimilarities between the hospital experiences of Paul Baümer and Franz Kemmerick and those of the characters in the texts written by Vera Brittain and Eva Dobell. Firstly, a comparison can be made between the attitudes of the patients of the hospitals concerned. In the film All Quiet On The Western Front, Paul and Franz are affected by the hospital and their conditions in a very negative way. For example, when
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David Campbell Remarque, Erich Maria. All quiet on the western front. United States: Ballentine books, 1982. An insider’s perspective on the brutality of World War 1. When Erich Maria Remarque wrote All Quiet On The Western Front, he created a story unlike any that had been seen before. Novels based on warfare tend to be romanticized; this is partly due to the fact that history tends to be written by the victors. While writing All Quiet On The Western Front, Remarque was able to tell the story
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Kevin Sanchez Ms. Gorrell English 10 HON 28 August 29, 2013 Biography of Erich Maria Remarque Enrich Maria Remarque was born in 22 June 1898 and died in 25 September 1970. Was a German author and was known for writing the novel All Quiet on the Western Front. It was in Osnabruck where Remarque was raised, developing boyhood interests of fishing and butterfly collecting. In Catholic school, he was labeled as talented and gifted. Music, specifically the piano, became an important part of his life
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All Quiet on the Western Front In the war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Remarque uses first person point of view to describe and introduce the hardships that soldiers endure in war. Remarque shows the extents the soldiers are willing go in order to have pleasure and leisure during the war. He uses the main characters, Kat and Paul, to show how the two go to great extents to ease the hardships of war. Erich Remarque uses the literary element of the first person point
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The novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, explains how the people and the soldiers dealt with WWI. It gives the readers an insight of what it felt like to fight on the Western Front, which the German Army made. This war that began on July 28, 1914, ended on November 11, 1918. On a daily basis, soldiers had to watch people like their comrades die. Fighting for this war forever will haunt them, and they will never be the same person they were before the war. Paul Bäumer is
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All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front could definitely be considered an anti-war novel. The changes the characters in the novel subjected themselves to throughout the book allow the reader to view the negative effects soldiers went through during, as well as after the war. Anti-war means that you are against the war and leaning more towards the idea of peace. This novel showed the dissatisfaction and disappointment in each character once they begun to truly
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All Quiet on the Western Front Alternate Assignment: Young Soldiers Fight Wars for Reasons They Don’t Understand The reason for enlisting and going to war is obvious: you go to war to fight for your country and be a hero. Is this actually the case? In the movie All Quiet on the western front, we see why young soldiers really go to war. And yes, the reason for which they claim they go to war, is to be of service to their home country and show their patriotism. Not only do I find the statement of
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The Betrayal in War All Quiet on the Western Front is an autobiographical novel, written by Erich Maria Remarque, and was published in 1928. Remarque had fought for the German army on the Western front in World War I and had become a militant pacifist. From his experiences in World War I, Remarque had written All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel that talks about how young men are tricked into thinking that going to war is a glorious, honorable thing; but in reality it leaves men traumatized
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such encouraging and convincing words that all of the students were excited and eager to enlist, even with others that had forged their parent’s signatures. They were eager to wear these uniforms, which represent the pride and duty of these new soldiers, despite the various number of name tags that were ripped off of the uniforms. Soon later, all this changed as their expectations and the false reality of the war were shattered once they arrived at the front. Suddenly,
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All Quiet on the Western Front employs a great deal of symbolism, but one the most important symbol in the novel is boots, specifically Kemmerich’s. Kemmerich’s boots were passed on from him to another soldier. When Kemmerich was dying Müller immediately asks about receiving the boots, but when he actually receives the boots he feels bad about getting them because he knows he acted like he cared more about the boots that his friend. This goes to show that the boots symbolize the cheapness and how
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All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel written by Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970), a German veteran from World War 1. The novel was first published in 1929 in book form and has 12 chapters. This book describes German Soldiers and their mental states and how young men adapted to the war. All Quiet on the Western Front has many rhetorical devices in it, many themes, and lots of symbolism. All Quiet on the Western Front, tells the story of Paul Baumer, a German soldier who joined the army
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All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque, the author of All Quiet on the Western Front successfully conveys many of his views on war to the reader. Remarque tells the story of Paul Baumer, a twenty-year-old German soldier who enlists with many of his classmates into the German infantry of World War one. Through the story of Paul Baumer, Remarque portrays many of his own views on war and can vividly explain these views to the reader. Throughout the story Remarque shows the personal struggles
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countries. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, the reader observes the impact of World War 1 from a German perspective, from the time when people thought of war as the most beautiful event of their lives, to the closure where many soldiers
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Being a young man heading off to war is considered one of the self sacrificial jobs of all time. The characters in “All Quiet on the Western Front” were not informed about what war was about and how it would affect their life. They simply obeyed the powers of authority. My role as a War Correspondent is to document and record the reality of war, the trauma’s and the joys of comradeship that comes out of war. By doing this I have followed 4 young men from the start to now the end of their journey
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noted by many artists and writers. For example, Metallica and the author of “All Quiet on the Western Front” express similar concerns of the harmful effects of warfare. Social reactions, such as leaders in warfare want to hide the horrors of the results from battles and wars. In the video titled “Johnny Got His Gun Back,” the man in uniform seems to want to hide the injured patient. The injured patient happened to loose all his limbs from a bomb and is hidden from society to prevent normal civilians
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fresh, eager and idealistic new recruit. This is based on the fact that Paul acted as the protagonist to the entire novel. As the novel's storyteller and hero, Paul is the focal figure in All Quiet on the Western Front and serves as the mouthpiece for Remarque's reflections about war (Remarque & Kiesel, 2004). All through the novel, Paul's inward identity is appeared differently in relation to the way the war constrains him to act and feel. His recollections of the time before the war demonstrate that
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During the Nazi regime, there was a massive censorship many people with high power would ban things. Books and films were hidden away from Germany because they weren’t good enough. On night “All Quiet On The Western Front, “it was based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque was shown to a public. Not everyone was all for the movie and human beings who were on the side of the propaganda used pain as a method to attack those people for that movie. So an anti-semitic group went after the audience of the film
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war, and he said this quote as he was on a mission to raze the South to the ground. At the beginning of the book Paul is a hopeful soldier. It will end only as what you would expect of watching all of your friends die and spending years at the front. Erich Maria Remarque wrote All Quiet on the Western Front to show us the horrors of war, and in vain to teach us lesson, that we finally realized by WWII. The story follows the life of a 19 year old schoolboy pressed into service by his teacher, trained
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The war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, is written by Erich Maria Remarque and is based on a real soldier’s experience during World War I. The main character, Paul, is a twenty-year-old German soldier who is greatly affected by the war. The lost generation war brings out the worst in people as well as the best in people are all themes exhibited by Remarque throughout the book to show the positive and negative aspects of war. Paul, only being twenty years of age had been stripped of his
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Entry One - Page Numbers 7-8 - The Latrine Metaphor In the beginning of the book, Paul expresses how he remembers that he was embarrassed when he was first informed that he, like the other recruits, was required to use the general latrine if he wanted to relieve himself. Looking back on the incident Paul states, “we have learned better than to be shy about such trifling immodesties.” (Remarque 8) Paul goes on to explain that the latrine is a “gossip-shop” where everything becomes beautiful and carefree
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All Quiet on the Western Front is a fictional account of a German soldier’s experience in World War I. Although written and marketed as fiction, the novella relies heavily on the wartime experience of the author, Erich Maria Remarque. Remarque, a German veteran of World War I, wrote the novella to show how war can suppress the ability of an individual to cope with the drama and stress of battle. Remarque completed the novella in 1927, nearly ten years after he joined the German army at the tender
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To begin with, after watching the anti-war movie “All Quiet on the Western Front” directed by Delbert Mann. I can overall conclude that the movie in my opinion was indeed a believable recreation of the lives of German men who had been enlisted to perform at war during World War 1. The reason why I claim that the movie was an accurate representation of the lives of German men during World War 1 was simply because the director was able to get his actors that he hired to portray their character roles
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been and will still be common to experience suffering and disturbance due to the recurring events and actions seen. Erich Maria Remarque, the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, has been very successful displaying events that are remarkably similar to the ones still occurring today. Paralleling themes from All Quiet on the Western Front, Tim O’Brien has been able to recreate some as well in his writing, The Things They Carried. Both of these works surpass the amount of description needed
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and “Flyboys” as well as read “All Quiet on the Western Front”. Much of WWI literature focuses on the themes of betrayal, horror, and friendship. First, betrayal is often a main theme of WWI literature. Firstly, in “Flyboys”, they demonstrate betrayal. For example, Briggs refuses to room with fellow pilot, Eugene Skinner simply because he is African-American (Flyboys). Thus, “Flyboys” demonstrates betrayal. Secondly, betrayal is shown in “All Quiet on the Western Front”. For instance, the men are given
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thing that has happened in this war is all of the friendships that I have made. My soldier friends and I have shared experiences in the war that have brought us close to together. Unfortunately the war has caused the death of some of friends and this makes me unhappy. I hate being on the front and being in trenches because there is a chance that I might die and I don’t want to die. I have known people that have died while being in a trench or on the front and I am sad that they have died. The
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“All Quite On the Western front” written by Remmarch and “Dulce et Decorum est” by Wilfred Owen were written to show the true horrors of war compared to the romance of war in propaganda posters like “Coo-Ee”. They do this by using writing techniques like, metaphors, similes, hyperbole and using text and imagery to appease and horrify the reader. In the World War I, South Australian propaganda poster COO-EE shows an Australian soldier standing on a battlefield, pointing his weapon towards the enemy
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Although All Quiet on the Western Front is an incredibly old, historical movie that should only be watched for educational purposes, it will at least keep you awake with its large display of weaponry and heart wrenching scenes. This film is a historical fiction movie about a young man volunteering for the German army roughly in 1914-1918, that alternates between the locations of France and Germany. The film begins with an enthusiastic teacher lecturing a class of schoolboys about the glory of “serving
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In All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque provides an in-depth description of many characters. One of the more important characters is Corporal Himmelstoss. He is significant for a number of reasons, but a large reason is for his cruelty to his soldiers. He forced his Kropp and Paul to “[clear] the barrack-square of snow with a hand-broom and a dust-pan” which took a long amount of time (Remarque 23). Himmelstoss forced them to these chores because Himmelstoss did not like them for no apparent
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Remarque’s approach in writing All Quiet on The Western Front was one that had revolutionized the way society thought about war. As war novels before World War I romanticized war, emphasized patriotic duty, glory and honor while Remarque’s novel emphasizes and delivers the realities of war such as the horrors, its effects on soldiers and the troops camaraderie towards each other. As prevalent as brutality is during war, World War I truly stimulated a more gruesome picture of war that was never perceived
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