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All Quite on the western front


            War isn't all you think it is, it has much more to deal with then just killing people. The author of All Quiet on the Western Front ,Erich Maria Remarque, and the poet of "Dulce Et Decorum Est", Wilfred Owen, have similar opinions on war. Threw out there writings they give examples of how war can hurt a person, not just by fighting but also by different feelings. Both authors wrote about the ugliness of war and how its not all you do is fight but you are out there for other things. .
             In the poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est," Owen is trying to tell what the true meaning of war is. "Gas! Gas! Quick Boys!,: (stanza 3) Owen says, which means they are getting warned to put on the gas masks because they are getting gassed. Owen is try to show how hard it was for these guys to be out on a fields and try to stay alive so they can go back home to their families, which is one reason they army is out there. In the poem Owen demands that others walk behind the wagon, where there are dead bodies getting thrown in. Owen says: .
             "Behind the wagon that we flung him in,.
             And watch the white eye writhing in his face,.
             His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin." (stanza 5).
             This quote has very harsh saying to it. Owen is saying that everyone must witness war before they can say anything about it. He wants everyone to understand what he is seeing. If people did understand what he wants then they would understand the true meaning of how war really is.
             The novel All Quite on the Western Front is very similar to the poem Owen wrote just in much more depth. Both of these writers show the ugliness of war and create great images in the readers mind of what it would look or be like but still telling you that you don't know what war is till you experience it. In chapter two one of the characters , Paul Baumer, realizes that his ten years of .
             schooling have taught him less than ten weeks as a soldier. War .
             has quickly taught him that only the fittest survive.


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