... that is why he needs the boots. WWI damaged the soldier's psyche, and the only way for them to survive was to silence their thoughts and feelings and accept the pain of the brutal war. The soldiers no longer feel the sense of a loyalty to the state as in the beginning but rather a sense to survive the harshness of war. The brutality of the war strips away all the aspects of being human. As ... the soldiers get their first experience on the front line, they realize they are no longer human beings but instinctive animals trying to survive day-to-day. "We march up, moody or good-tempered s...

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All Quiet on the Western Front is a book about the life of a soldier during World War I. It focuses on a young German soldier by the name of Paul Baumer and the changes and struggles he faces throughout the war. Paul is nineteen years old and had survived being in the front, was considered to be a veteran had such a young age. Baumer and his classmates had volunteered for the war and their ... decision was mainly based upon what their schoolteacher had been telling them. The book starts off ... he would soon die. Paul does not leave Kemmerich's side until he dies. Paul had become fairly good...

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... what the French soldier thought and suffered, because they were the same kind of person in the war, even though they are enemies. They were not the one that caused the war, they could not control the war, they were inculpable, but, they have to fight each other for the people they don't even familiar with. This indicated that the victims of the war are not the countries, not the leaders of the ... war, but the soldiers and only the soldiers in the war. From this event happened on Paul, we can understand that Paul is a very sensitive, compassionate, and pure-hearted man. He felt sorry fo...

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... become an everyday routine, there is nothing else for Paul and the other soldiers to do in the muddy and bloody battle zone, so instead they decide to make the best of their time. "Thus momentarily we have the two things a soldier needs for contentment: good food and rest. That's not much when one comes to ... think of it. A few years ago we would despised ourselves terribly. But now we are almost happy. It is all a matter of habit-- even the front- ... line." (pg. 138) This quote discusses that the way of the war had turned Paul and the ... man has time with him, he has an invisible dag...

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... 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 learn anything from that other than the outcome, in All Quiet on the Western Front you see war through the eyes of a soldier, rather than through the pens of the history book writers. War is never good, but always necessary. Most people have no ... experiences with war. So, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front paints a vivid picture of what cruelties really occur ... during war. The significance to the famous saying "War is hell" is .....

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... 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 ... his group and is left stranded behind enemy lines. When a French soldier jumps into the trench he is hiding in Paul instinctively stabs him in the stomach with his bayonet. As the man is dying Paul begins to think how he and t...

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... that dealt with Germans and the French, in WWI. Paul Baumer was the main character, but still I liked the way he acted, and how real some of his stunts were. I did not like Corporal Himmelstoss, ever since I first saw him; he was pretty crazy and impatient. A very good person and very patient guy ... was Stainislaus Katczinsky, all his recruits loved him. Paul Baumer, a nineteen-year-old student, convinced to enlist with German army by his schoolmaster, Kentorek. Paul and many of his friends from school were trained together by Corporal Himmelstoss. Paul had a best friend who went to the...

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... edited for drama effect. Growing up in pre-WWI Germany, same time WWI Germany would be a fascinating depiction, while rendering from the soldier's love lives, to their Christian habits. "Just as we turn into animals when we go up to the line so we turn into wags and loafers when we are resting . We want to live at any price; so we cannot ... dinner at home. A direct German family-to German war situation would have to exist in the entire movie to educate the audience what the soldiers were coming from and what they were like in the personal lives, however the situation would only better ...

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... 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. "We are at rest five miles behind the front." The importance of this line, the opening line of the book, is to notice that Paul is a first-person narrator ... , and the first word of the book is "We." This shows how Remarque wanted to display comradeship as such an importance. Being the only good ... thing to come out of the war comradeship takes...

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... that keep water out as much as possible. The butterfly is a symbol for the good things in life, that even though there is death and sadness all around them the butterfly is the one thing that reminds them that there are still good things in the world around them. He also uses a horse as a symbol. The horses showed how terrible the war was really by them being gassed and ... and heroic thing, then they would get there and wonder why they signed up. The war ruined many lives of people because they would leave there and their mental state of mind would be gone from all of the horrible thin...

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... did, for example when Kemmerich dies they just gave his boots away and left him. I thought that when a soldier died his fellow soldiers grieved for him but in this story that is not really the case. This book educates the public and also is a good plot line so it is easy to read. However, I thought that there were too many characters to follow. I kept ... getting confused about who was who and what was happening to what soldier. Other than that I thought this book was very good. One quotation from this book is ... "It will simply try to tell of a generation of men who, even though they...

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... passages of how Erich Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is a horrific tale of the truly devastating effects that world wars bring. All Quiet on the Western Front, as told by a young infantry soldier who describes the horrible realities of World War I's trench warfare and the drastic consequences of the war upon his generation. This touching novel tells the stark truth about all war, that it is ... of War 2) Finally comes the devastating portrayal of the "lost generation". So many of this generation were killed in action, prisoners of war, or so deranged by the war that they were...

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