... where it seemed you were not a "true German- if you did not enlist. Even in schools the teachers were teaching kids the glory of war all the while leaving out the true horror of life at the front. The movie All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a young German named Paul Baumer. In the beginning of the movie Paul is an naive student who has been taught all his life that war is ... three main events in the plot line: Franz's death, the death of a Frenchman, and Kat's death. Franz Kemmerick was a forester out of the same class as Paul. Franz gets shot in the beginning of the mo...

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... seemed to be normal humans are transformed into animals. This is illustrated by Paul when he states, "We have become wild beasts. We do not fight, we defend ourselves against annihilation."(author, 113) Contrary to the usual war novels, or movies in All Quiet on the Western Front we"re introduced to the soldiers on a more personal level. We get some insight to what they"re living, and get to ... meant to them through their eyes. Normally when we reflect back on wars we tend to concentrate on the results. Who won, and the number of casualties seem to be most important. However, you don't...

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... basically anything else; on this basis Paul and him grew quite close. Paul's unit was assigned to lay barbed wire on the front line, and a sudden shelling was resulted in the severe wounding of a recruit that Paul had comforted earlier. Paul and Kat again strongly questioned the War. After Paul's company were returned to the huts behind the lines, Himmelstoss appeared and was insulted by some of the members of Paul's" unit, who were then only ... mildly punished. During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul's unit were killed. Paul was given leave and returned home only to find ... ...

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The novel's epigraph initiates the intent to further allow the reader to learn about the mental damage that the First World War imposed on soldiers. When Paul speaks about his entire generation "destroyed by the war-, he is talking about the way him and all of the other young soldiers becoming less and less human. The major psychological impact brought upon these young men wreaked havoc with their mental health after the war, even ... if they survived physically unharmed. Most of the soldiers that served the armies throughout Europe were very young ... ...

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... hobbies. They were forced, like himself, to endanger their lives because the government officials were against each other. Paul saw that war was a horrible thing and was too often romanticized by those who knew nothing about it. Paul was given a reprieve from the fighting. When he went home, he found his mother dying of cancer and his father working himself to death trying to earn money ... It is graphic and crude, and portrays the horrors of war excellently. Some do not appreciate the frankness of what the author shows. However, no man can downplay the cruelty and violence of war and st...

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... soldiers are resting right after they had just fought a battle. Paul talks about how they had all lined up for breakfast and that the cook had only prepared for about 80 of the soldiers. Many of their weeks in the army involved very strict training in which they were under the command of a man by the name of Himmelstoss. Paul's platoon consisted of about 150 men and after 2 weeks about 80 had survived ... thus explaining the incident with the cook. Paul decides to go ahead and visit one of is an old classmate who ... ...

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60 years ago, My grandfather's generation turned their heads while evil took hold of our world. His generation received a punch in the chin when it wasn't looking at Pearl Harbor. History tells us how his generation responded. My generation has turned its head while the evil of terrorism has taken hold of this world. On Sept. 11th, we received a punch in the chin while we weren't looking. How will my generation respond? I hope with the same patriotism, loyalty, and resolve that my grandfather's did. This is a tragedy. it should have never happened. I'm only 16 but this has affected my life and...

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... quite close. Paul's unit was assigned to lay barbed wire on the front line, and a sudden shelling resulted in the severe wounding of a recruit that Paul had comforted earlier. Paul and Kat again strongly questioned the War. After Paul's company were returned to the huts behind the lines, Himmelstoss appeared and was insulted by some of the members of Paul's unit, who were then only mildly punished. During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul's unit were ... killed. Paul was given leave and ... ...

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... their disagreements. When it is dark, the men go to lay barbwire in front, but are attacked by the artillery. Little by little men are being killed around them. After the men return back to the camp, they think about what they are going to do at the end of the War. Most of the men feel that the War will never end. Paul wonders if the War did end what he will do ... . The Company gets caught in a gruesome battle. Paul feels that to keep himself ... these are the incident and accidents of War. The next battle injures Paul and Kropp. They bribe the surgeon with cigars so that they can be p...

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... that he would not have killed him if given the chance again, but the man was trying to kill Paul, so he acted out of self-defense. This is the first point where anyone has been able to see the dead up close like this, and is really one of the most dramatic scenes we have seen in class at all. Paul eventually gets his chance for leave. When he ... returns, only his friend Kat is left alive. When out by themselves, Kat is shot and Paul is forced to carry him back. On the walk back, Kat is shot in the back and killed. Everything that Paul had was taken from him yet the officers just call K...

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... died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. The year 1900 marked only a chronological entry into the twentieth century; many of the new tones of voice, the new anxieties and difficulties that we associate with modern writing had already begun. This was apparent in the poetry of the 1890s – the decade of Aestheticism and Decadence. It was largely a poetry of urban themes; the Romantic dependence on nature had already ... the greatest novels in the English language were written. The novels of this era contrast markedly with most nineteenth...

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... it presents to soldiers, and their loved ones. The most tragic of these horrors is death. In this novel, it focuses the issue of death mainly on the young and innocent soldiers who are brain-washed into volunteering for not so much "war" but for their own death. It also shows the reactions of Paul when his closest comrades perish one by one. It shows his first reaction, how ... vulnerable when fighting on the front. The final aspect of "All Quiet on the Western Front" is the novels fantastic yet realistic descriptions. Every single moment of Paul's experiences is described in fine and co...

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... stories and dreamed of battles where together, they were the heroes who won the fights , saved lives and became famous. The story begins with a childhood fantasy and ends with Paul and his friends facing the real horror of actual war as a soldier. Their journey is a coming of age tale that tells of the ugliness of war and calls attention to the moral, spiritual, emotional, and physical damage suffered by the young soldiers. Paul is a 19 ... -year-old volunteer in the German army ... ...

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... a soldier himself, and was wounded in World War 1. This book shows the change in attitudes of the men before and during the war, and how war affects every man no matter what side they are fighting for. Also we see in this book that war has evolved very much since the start of warfare. In the eighteenth century commanders lined their men up and charged one another until ... almost every soldier was dead, to World War 1 where digging and "living" in the trenches with rapid-fire machine guns, bombs, and flame-throwers ... single day, night, and hour until the battle was won or lost. The w...

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... a young man named Paul Baumer narrates the story. Paul is of the age of nineteen, when he is convinced to enlist in the German army in the World War I. Paul and several of his friends are encouraged to join the army by their teacher Kantorek, who would never join the army himself. After enlisting in the army, Paul and his friends trained under a cruel Corporal Himmelstoss, a strictly disciplined commander who dislikes Paul and his friends. He ... not judgmental of the enemy. He doesn't seem too sing the praise of his own country. The one thing that did bother me was his cynical view of ...

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... the wife at home taking care of the house and the children. Since the sixties, the youth culture has dominated fashion. When the Capri pants came out, it was finally fashionable to be casual. Mini skirts and pantsuits were the typical garments in the first phase of the mod fashion, a youthful fashion. Next came the hippie look, which was influenced by the hippies of ... In the eighties, several trends influenced fashion, such as physical fitness and music. Also, women's fashions moved closer to a male dominated style. When the nineties came, grunge and an exploration in clothing structur...

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... gives the first hand experiences of World War I; living in the trenches at the front line, dealing with the hardships of war, and also substituting everyday life for the war and its aftermath. Although an easy piece to read, the novel is better supported by a clearer understanding beforehand of the war itself and exactly how and why it was brought about. Very early on in the novel we learn of those in Paul's company. Paul Baumer ... himself is just 19 years old at the start of the ... ...

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... explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in war." (page 88). This quote by Paul expresses the anger and sorrow he has for what he and his comrades have done. They were in their prime, ready to show the world what they were made of. But instead they chose to sidestep ... that and enlist in the war. A choice unfortunately that cost ... them their lives. The war not only took ... ...

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... emotions and become self-centered in order to survive. Remarque shows the transformation of young soldiers by representing the whole generation in a single human being, Paul. Even though, Paul appears to be one of the wisest and emotionally stable people in the novel, he experiences struggle with the connection to the normal life outside the war. After, seeing severe consequences of war, Paul, just like most others, restrains his emotions and develops animal instinct ... any kind of patriotic duty. Throughout the novel, the actual enemy to the soldiers seems to be the authority of the c...

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... a German warfront from 1917 up until 1918. It is specifically set on the Western Front, between Germany and France The plot of the novel takes the reader through the experiences of a young German recruit, Paul Baumer, and his fellow soldiers, who were encouraged to enlist by their teacher Kantorek. Kantorek glorified the war so that it would appeal to his then students. He told them ... very resourceful. Josef Behm was the first recruit to be killed, he is a minor character. Himmelstoss is also a minor character, but he was the boys" drillmaster. He always bullied and antagonized them. ...

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... , both stories occur in post war England. Old Misery's fine home in "The Destructors" represents luck and wealth. The home survived bombings of the war even when everything around it had been destroyed. Paul's mother in "The Rocking Horse Winner" blames her family's unluckiness on their poverty. Misery caused by poverty is the underlying theme of each story and somehow luck had to do with their current condition. Aside ... eventually is destroyed by a gang at the end of "The Destructors." More than likely Mr. Thomas will have a great financial burden when trying to rebuild his home again...

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... Kantorek calls him and his comrades the "Iron Youth,"" but Paul is not a youth anymore. The war prematurely aged him, taking him from the young age of nineteen directly to being an old man. Albert expresses it: The war has ruined us for everything. He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life ... . We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the ... , out of the suffering and the strength of our experience we might have unleashed a storm. Now if we go back we will be weary, broken, burnt out, ...

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... a while. Paul, the narrator of the book, went to the war alongside of some of his friends Tjaden, Muller, Kropp, and some others. Paul and his friends were told that the war was a great and heroic thing but when they finally got there they found out the truth. Paul was the last one of his friends to survive which means he saw the most and was the most effected by the war. If you asked Paul about the war ... he could not give a straight answer without bringing up to much of the bad memories. He felt like the world did not understand him anymore and that he no ... everyone else is dead a...

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... . The racial discrimination was one of the major issues Bianchi family faced since they moved to Australia. For example, Mr. Wilson who works at the s"hop, thinks it is amusing to call Mrs. Bianchi, Momma Macaroni. This sees it as discrimination and it is an insult and prejudice. And in Act 1, Momma does not see the other neighbours actions as humorous and retaliates by blocking the sewer ... have changed significantly. They are more migrants in Australia compared to back in 1950s. Australia is a multicultural society, which is entirely populated by migration. In the past, people from al...

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... they are dehumanized in the war. Paul was convinced to enlist with the German army by his schoolmaster, Kantorek. Along with many of his friends from school, he is trained under Corporal Himmelstoss. Paul's corporal is a strictly disciplined commander who dislikes Paul because of his defiance. The first dehumanizing encounter was using the latrines with no doors and twenty other men. Paul said, "I well remember how embarrassed we were as recruits in ... barracks when we had to use the general latrine."3 When Paul was ... ...

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