Nearer Than Lovers From beginning to end, friendship plays an essential role in the book All Quiet on the Western Front, by Enrich Remarque. It is the single driving force for the soldiers who know nothing but of death and demolition. The soldiers" friendships give them a will to fight, and a shred of hope in a surely desperate situation. Throughout the novel, you see a unique, incomparable bond between Katczinsky, a forty-year-old veteran and Paul ... post war plans, and their answers were extremely vague. They had no idea what to say. With this Remarque is trying to explain the soldiers fea...

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Dear Kantorek, What you told us about war was very untruthful. There is no glamor to war, and thanks to the war our entire generation is going to be wiped out. The life at the front was terrible, and the food was no better. The doctors gave no care to each individual, and each person was treated as dispensable. All of this was said by an older man who does not have to worry about getting drafted into the war. We trusted you with our lives, and you sent us out to die. It is doubtful that any of us will survive this war. If any of us do survive we will not know what to do with our lives. We neve...

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All Quiet on the Western Front shows a lot of character. Boys turning into men by joining the German army and fighting for what they stand for. They go in having no clue of how bad the war can change ones perspective for one another and how bad they need to stick together to survive. Before they decided to join up they were boys figuring out what ... be men all know that in order to survive they need to come together and over come the changes that will take place on and off the front. There will be change. Before the four, Kropp, Muller, Leer, and Paul, decided to volunteer for the war they...

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In the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front", I gained a new outlook on World War One, as seen through the eyes of the Germans, who I had previously only viewed as our enemies. I think the most important thing that I realized in watching this movie is that, while we try to un-personify the enemy, they are people just like us, they fight for their own cause, just as we fight for ours. However, as the war ... it. Depressed, Paul heads back to the war, realizing that it is the only place where he belongs anymore. He has no home; the war has taken that from him. When he returns, only his friend ...

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"All Quiet on the Western Front" Essay War should not be brought upon any country or of any person. People join thinking they are doing something right for the country of that they are fighting for, but the problem is that no one really knows or feels what it is like in war and bloodshed. It's horrifying for anyone of any age, so I"ll tell you. You sit in a trench most ... you sit there to catch a breath from the day before. People on the battlefield lay dead with cold bloody bodies around them. Your tired to the point of death, but you can"t stop for one second knowing that at one moment th...

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... to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men have escaped it's shells, were destroyed by war..." (Remarque). All Quiet on the Western Front is a gruesome film displaying the soldiers impact during World War I. This film goes beyond enemy lines into Germany's front in a rigorous battle of gruesome violence. World War I's trench warfare dehumanized young soldiers and had a devesting effect ... in hundreds of thousands of deaths. War has a huge effect on soldiers not only emotionally but mentally and physically. All Quiet on the Western Front is a story mainly focused ...

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... . His primary reason is that the citizens rally behind the leaders of their country, thus stirring a patriotic surge. This is especially clear in the recent "war on terror" created by George Bush, which rose his approval ratings exceptionally high. The patriotic feelings released by the "War on Terror" is also the main reason Tim Kahlor, in the previous article, fought in the first place. Similarly, in All Quiet on the Western Front, Kat reveals his ... perspective for the reason to fight: " 'Then what exactly is the war for?' asks Tjaden. Kat shrugs his shoulders. 'There must ...

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... and there are many references to nature such as "field" and "rivers". The soldier in many ways sums up the mood of the first months of the war. Rupert Brooke is happy to die for his country, but knows nothing of what comes before death on the Western Front: exposure, mud, the constant dangers of snipers, the regular loss of friends and comrades. There are certain passages in Birdsong that ... reflect this poem in different ways. There is a section that runs from page 220-224 which shows us the letters that the soldiers are sending. The men all know that they are going to attack in the m...

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