... at his school. Paul and his friends realized that being patriotic comes with a costs - hard work, brutal life and harsh training. Paul and his friends realized that War is not as honorable as it is made to sound. After two weeks Paul's Company returns from fighting with a 150 men. A group of new recruits are sent to join the Company. Kat, a friend of ... and got paid the equally, War would immediately stop. Kropp, Paul's friend believes that leaders should set up clubs discussing their disagreements. When it is dark, the men go to lay barbwire in front, but are attacked by the artillery...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... lists lengthened and reality set in. What had been projected as a brief war became a four year struggle. When the guns finally did fall silent, the German, Austrian, Russian empires collapsed, and the greater part of a generation of young men lay dead. At the beginning of the war, most poets wrote about how it ... was patriotic to fight or even die for your country, "The Soldier" is one of these poems. Rupert Brooke wrote this poem very early in the war, this is known as a pro-war poem. In ... other. Wilfred Owen use of half rhymes in this poem gives us the feeling of senselessness. In...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... in a trench most of the time trusting people around you to cover you while 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 the enemy will ... come flooding over the trench trying to kill as many Germans as they can. My name is Paul Baumer and I am a soldier of the German army in WW1. I can say one soldier told me one time shortly ... even know what was about to happen to my life. Once you"re in the war you can"t get ...

• Word Count: 550
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School