A Brief Summary Of The Book All Quiet On The Western Front

Chapter 11: The war continues and the German forces are weakening. Muller dies and gives Paul his boots. No one hears of Detering ever again after he tries to escape back home. Leer dies because of a thigh wound. Kat eventually dies too because of an exploding shell fragment landing on his head.

Charley Quinn is twelve years old the summer after his older brother, Johnny, is killed at Gettysburg. Charley can't wait for the opportunity to avenge Johnny's death by killing off some Rebel soldiers. Meanwhile, he works as an errand boy for his older sister, Noreen. He picks up supplies and hats for her sewing business and delivers them when Noreen is finished with them. Charley is a member of the street gang known as the Bowery Boys. Their arch rivals are the Dead Rabbits. As Charley is returning home one day with a hatbox, he encounters a member of the rival gang and gets into a fight. A police officer breaks it up and takes Charley home. Noreen is angry that he has ruined his good clothes and that he had been fighting. While Charley is changing, he hears Noreen talking with her fiancé. At the end of that conversation, Noreen agrees that if Charley can't stay out of trouble she'll send him to a school for incorrigible boys.

In Chapter five of Erich Remarque’s novel All Quiet on The Western Front, Paul explains that they are no longer young from the experiences such as being young and having to fight for their lives, not being able to know if they have a future, and lastly, death. As a result, it makes Paul feel older from those terrible experiences as he writes, “We are not youth any longer” (87). Paul makes this statement because even though they are nineteen or twenty, they will experience more in their life when they are in the war than any other time. Paul explains about how they are just starting their new independent life, and then it is shot to pieces from being in the war. “The war has ruined us for everything” (87). The war definitely did wreck everything.

A soldier changes mentally and socially due to fighting in war. The soldiers in All Quiet on the Western Front and Anthem for Doomed Youth learn that their enemies are very similar to them. Both Remarque and Owens emphasize that soldiers are the same and it is merely war that puts a blockade between the enemies. Remarque stresses that war separates soldiers despite having many similar personalities.

At the beginning of World War I, Germany was at war on two fronts with the Western allies and Russia to the east. The war took place in France, where both sides came to a standstill and began to dig trenches, in what would later become known as trench war. On Germany’s side, Paul Baumer, and his fellow soldiers’ part of the second company, were fighting for a good two weeks without food or water during the fight. Then, after they had been fighting for two weeks straight, they were finally relieved of duty for a short period of time. The company consisted of 150 men before they went to battle, then after two weeks of fighting the company only had 80 men including Paul and his men. When they were relieved of

The main theme that I found in All Quiet on The Western Front was Patriotism. I think that men in power at the time had used people’s patriotism to fuel war and their own agenda, on all sides of the war. There was a feeling that civilians in Paul’s hometown envied the life of a soldier after being told it was the noblest of duties. Other times, when Paul comes face to face with other soldiers, he realizes that they are no different than him.

When we look at the protagonist’s initial views on the war it is what we would expect for someone at the beginning of the war. He wanted a sense of adventure. He even states that he didn’t join to fight, but to have the adventure. However he still had the undertone of doubt about what the war will come out to be. We don’t really see this fluctuate too much during the first chapter. However, in the second chapter when he has begun his military training, he starts to realize what his actual views on the military lifestyle and the chain of command in the French Army may not exactly be what the military is looking for in a soldier. He doesn’t like the idea of doing the formations, drill, or basic duties assigned to conscripts such as cleaning and other menial tasks. On top of being a poor soldier when it came to tasks, he often questioned the Officers and Generals in command of the Army during the war. He compared them to historical figures such as Napoleon, stating how Napoleon knew how to wage war while the officers in charge of them were unable to do so. This mainly being to the reason that France had not been in a war for quite a strong

In this chapter, it's 15 years forward and the narrator is talking about how he viewed his school. He talks about his fears like the specters, classmates walking up and down the stairs with him. Also he comes back to the tree, his other fear. Where he and others jumped off to be prepared for the war.

The soldiers begin to lose track of days and weeks, counting time only by season and time spent at the front. Paul Bäumer feels that "it is as though formerly we were coins of different provinces; and now we are melted down, and all bear the same stamp." However, Paul still takes solace in the brotherhood of the soldiers. All their energy goes toward the same goal—survival. The violence and death that surround them feels as common to them as a case of the flu.

All Quiet on the Western Front is a historical fiction novel written by German author Erich Maria Remarque in the late 1920s. It is narrated by Paul Baumer, a young man who joined the army voluntarily after listening a patriotic speech from his teacher, Kantorek. Paul shared his experiences and stories during the time he fought in the German army on the French front in World War I.

The book has many brave characters, one of which is Paul Gruninger. Who is a swiss police commander that gambles his job, and life in order to save thousands of Jews from getting killed. He served in the military, and was a professional football player. He worked as a border patrol officer, and when the Hitler regime broke out he was to not allow any Jews to cross.

In the Novel “All Quiet on the Western Front”, many images and events had a profound impact on me. However, one image stands out the most. I often see myself looking back at the event where Paul accidently killed his own soldier then had to watch him pass away. The rollercoaster of emotions that Paul undergoes during this scene gives the reader a sort of anxiety and sympathy for Paul. First, Paul wants the man to die and when he does he is then relieved originally. Unfortunately, this feeling of relief does not last long as he later he feels remorse for killing the man. In addition, the imagery that the author uses gives the reader a very graphic idea of what is taking place. Finally, I think the author succeeded in his goal to portray the

Somya Pandey & Charlotte Tate English II Arcaro 1st Period May 6, 2018 The King of the Clouds: The Red Baron’s Experiences in WWI Compared to Remarque’s Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front Manfred von Richthofen, also known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter ace during World War I who shot down a wartime total of eighty planes before he was killed in action. He was widely regarded as the “Ace of Aces” in German propaganda, and was known across the front for his accuracy of shooting during dogfights (“Red Baron”).

One of the first books that you will read in this class is “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque. This novel follows the life of Paul Baumer and his comrades who have enlisted in World War One. These boys are all eighteen and have barely graduated from high school. They quickly learn that the war is not as glorious and honor gaining that their superiors promised them it would be. The book follows the struggles of these men.

World War I was a time of great conflict and change throughout the world. The film, All Quiet on the Western Front, gives a look into what this conflict was like from a German perspective. Showing differing viewpoints of instructors and misleading information, this film tells the story of a group of young men’s involvement in the war. Illustrating more than just the conflict on the battlefield, All Quiet on the Western Front depicts the difference in perspectives from those involved in the war and those sitting on the sidelines.