... Preface). Indeed, in All Quiet on the Western Front, the meaning of language itself is, to a great extent, destroyed. Early in the novel, Baumer notes how his elders had been facile with words prior to his enlistment. Specifically, teachers and parents had used words, passionately at times, to persuade him and other ... words. I am afraid they might then become gigantic and I be no longer able to master them. (Remarque, All Quiet VII. 146) Again, Baumer notes the impossibility of making the experience of war meaningful within a verbal context: the war is too big, the words describing it...

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... waging" (Prof. Bodnar). The mother was not only delivering a message to her sons, it was also being directed towards the audience as well. As Professor Bodnar states in his movie notes, even Girl joins the fight against evil at the end as she stabs a German and finds Boy alive. If Girl's support for the war wasn't good enough beforehand, her stabbing ... preached to Paul. According to the teacher, war was great. It was honorable and an act that young men should yearn to be a part of. Paul, hearing these lies, is quick to make a rebuttal. He tells the boys that war is nothing like what t...

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... their personal identity to fit in with the public's perception of what's proper. In his first poem that addresses him hometown, "when i am in Boston," Cummings describes a scene while he notes, "when i am in Boston, i do not speak and i sit in the click of ivory balls noting flies, which jerk upon the weak colour of table-cloth, the electric When in ... -cloths." He emphasizes his protest against the materialism of the town when he bitterly states "When in Doubt, but it off," which shows the mentality of New Englanders to choose quick, material answers, versus not relying on money. Later...

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