... different in nature than he himself is. As Paul spoke to the body of Gerard Duval, in All Quiet on the Western Front, these realizations were brought to is mind; just as they were in chapter eight when he saw the Russian prisoners and concluded that the war had forced men who were not enemies to fight each other. The characteristics that Paul portrayed in the novel were that of an altruistic ... stamp, had been distorted from when they were school boys to the new stamp being the mark of a soldier which changed them forever. For the great number of youths that were lost in this war troug...

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... your last. That is what the main character Paul goes through in the anti-war novel All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Remarque. It is about a young man who has been fighting on the front for the Germans during WWI. He has to face the horrors of war through gas attacks, full on charges, and close combat. All Quiet On the Western Front is a great book for several reasons. One excellent thing about this book is the foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is when the author indicates beforehand ... that an event will occur through clues. The first example of foreshadowing is between ... ...

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... a more realistic version and described the of the War and all its horrors involved. He did not sugarcoat the evils and he did this so that the people who were not involved directly would know exactly how awful it really was. All Quiet on the Western Front is a classic War novel, one of the best of all time. The way in which Remarque describes the War and the front line is truly incredible. The details are something that no author ... during Remarques time period dared to do, and no one had experienced before. The fact that Remarque told of all the horrifying events makes this novel very...

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... and, in fact, is the embodiment of a lack of any kind of meaning. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque shows the disorder created by the war. This disorder affects such elemental societal institutions as the family, the schools, and the church. Moreover, the war is so chaotic that it infects the basic abilities, not the least of which is verbal, of humanity itself. By showing how the First World War deleteriously affects the syntax of language ... , Remarque is able to demonstrate how the war irreparably alters the order of the world ... ...

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... many for his literary genius and despised by the ultra-Nationalist Nazi regime - the latter held book burnings of All Quiet on the Western Front after exiling Remarque to Switzerland. Before it is possible to delve into the aforementioned themes of the futile agonies of war and the perils of Nationalism, it is necessary to understand the political and social climate in which Remarque was writing. (All subsequent historical references from HI 30 class lecture ... on 10/7/2003.) The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, sole heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne ... ...

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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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... pages of his book All Quiet on the Western Front summarises the theme of his entire text by dedicating it to "a generation that was destroyed by the war - even those who survived the shelling". This text is the tragic account of a young man, and the other millions of young men killed or emotionally and mentally shattered by World War I. The novel is brutally honest and is told from the unique first-person viewpoint of a young German ... , glory and romance of war. He shows instead the animal brutality, the torn and horrible human disfigurement, the dread, the anxiety and soul-deadening s...

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... anti-war novel of its time, All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel dealing with the tragedy of war and the extermination of an entire generation of men, for those that "may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war."" The book is peppered with examples of the "Lost Generation,"" as well as images of man's inhumanity to man. Remarque states simply that this is not a book that exemplifies war by ... them with war propaganda. They thought they were acting in everyone's best interest when they forced the young lads to enlist in the army, but in doing so, they eradicated the whol...

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All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is considered an anti-war novel through examples of the horror and waste of human life during war time. Throughout the novel, the death and destruction caused by battle is clearly depicted. The major theme of the novel dwells on the waste and emptiness of war. Thousands of lives are lost just because a few men in authority want more land and more power. Ordinary people, with ... makes these claims with example in each chapter; the sharing of the boots in chapter one, the dehumanizing of soliders in chapter t...

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All Quiet On The Western Front (AQOTWF) was written by Erich Maria Remarque and is set in world war one, beginning in 1916 and ending in November 1918, when the armistice called a halt to the war. Remarques aim is to illustrate the horror and senselessness of war. Remarque achieves his aim by exploring the many facets of horror and Senselessness through the use of 5 strong examples. Early in the novel, Remarque gives the reader the impression that ... to anybody at the time. This resulted in the reader being greatly affected when the soldiers experienced the Horrors and senselessness of war. ...

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... under any circumstance. He clearly used his novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, as a means to illustrate his anti- nationalist views. Remarque harshly critiques nationalism through his main character Paul Baumer and the other soldiers, who recognize that their real enemies are not across the trenches, but in high offices in their own country. The image of a glorified war was the ideal method to draft soldiers into battle, yet ... are forced to kill and mutilate one another, even though they have more in common with one another than they do with their respective leaders. Thus, Remarqu...

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... written about WWI prior to this. The main character of the story is a young German soldier named Paul Baumer. The story is about Paul and his soldier buddies, and just how they deal with the many aspects of war. The story's main focus is not on the specific battles of the war, but is more concerned with the environment and temperament in which the war is fought. All Quiet on the Western Front deals more with the characters thoughts and fears, and ... how their lives are changed during the war. As Stickel states: Remarque's novel is a successful portrayal of the truths of war because of ...

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... of war expressed in sorrow by Erich Maria Remarque explains All Quiet on the Western Front to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure. Throughout this novel many themes are expressed that of which all sum up to the major themes of the senselessness of war. Comradeship, wars brutality, and the lost generation, these themes express the book in its purest form, showing it from a soldier's perspective ... 2 never read books again or do any other favorite activity stating at the end of his leave simply, "I ought never to have come on leave." The death, pain, ...

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... that said these remarks in the battles? Did they experience the same horrors as the fighting soldiers? Perhaps these soldiers killed many people in the course of doing their job, but it does not mean they are no longer human. Maybe instead of criticizing these men and women we should learn from them. The novel All Quiet On The Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, is a novel about soldiers and war ... . Throughout the experiences of Paul Baumer, as presented in this novel, we are able to learn a great deal about war. First, one thing that we can ... ...

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The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque has revealed the horrifying and devastating effects of war on humanity. Instead of presenting, like many other novels did before, the glorifying and heroic aspects of war, Remarque showed how innocent and young soldiers became victims of a terror. In addition, Remarque critiqued the negative role of authority, patriotism and nationalism that placed pressure on the youngster's decision about enlisting during the World War I. Through main ... character's, Paul Bummer, narration the reader is introduced to the effect of war on individuals as ...

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... is left to fill the world. Brian Murdoch says, "Stolen youth is a recurrent motif," (Murdoch All Quiet on the Western Front 1) which, indeed, is all too true. All Quiet on the Western Front told by Paul Baumer, who is just a kid, a kid who has been corroded into something of a machine a fighting, killing, murderous machine. He is in turn able to relate just how unfair, ruthless, and senseless war truly is. All Quite on the Western Front conveys to the reader the stark truth about all war, that it is ... a waste of so many lives, property and time, not only the ones fighting the ... ...

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