... Through written conversation, the novel deals with many of the social attitudes and ideas which prevailed during the early 20's. Historical facts are cleverly infused into the body of the novel that gives the reader an authentic and classic impression of the story. A clear view of the discrimination that existed in that time period against non-whites and women was evident by the time the conclusion of the book was reached. ... For instance, a conversation takes place between characters in the novel in which civilization is said to ... that exciting motion pictures are made of, It was r...

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• Grade Level: High School

... is Nationalism. Nationalism is what gets Paul and the others to join the army. It tricks them into thinking the war is great and everything the war really is not. The several themes in this book are relevant to what the other was trying to show all of his readers. Some of the new technology that they got were tanks, machine guns, chemical gas, and trench warfare. These ... three were also the most dangerous. The new technology led to even more deaths, some of which were their own. It made fighting the war a lot easier but in the end led to more tragedies then wins. Early on in ... ;Arch...

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• Grade Level: High School

... still relate to these feelings and emotions with the help of descriptive texts in literature. Both the novel All Quiet On the Western Front and the poem "The Man He Killed" help to portray the image of the effects and feelings of warfare. In the novel All Quiet On the Western Front, Remarque does an impeccable job conveying the torturous misfortunes of war. Through the eyes of Paul Baumer, a young man shipped ... killed." He then realizes that he is no longer an individual man, but a trained killing machine. At first, he does not understand exactly what he will be doing at the front lin...

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• Grade Level: High School

... symbolic transformation into a huge, repulsive, fatally wounded insect. In the Penal Colony (1919) is a parable of a torture machine and its operators and victims---equally applicable to a person's inner sense of law, guilt, and retribution and to the age of World War I. The Country Doctor (1919) was another collection of short prose. At the time of his death Kafka was also preparing A Hunger Artist (1924), ... four stories centering on the artist's inability either to negate or come ... to terms with life in the human community." Franz Kafka's writings can be best described as nightma...

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