All Quiet Kill: A Short Story

It was late one day in June, and the sky was as blue and clear as sparkling wine. I sat back in my hammock reading the book Unbroken enjoying myself, and my uncle came up and asked me if I wanted to play poker with him, 5$ buy in. I jumped at the idea finished my page and went inside the house. Poker is a pretty big thing in my family and I’ve grown up playing and my uncle was one of the best, so spending time with him playing poker is always one of my favorite things to do. We proceed to set up the table, “Texas Holdem“ he says, Jacks to open”. Nothing weird, so we get the game going and the pots getting pretty big when all of the sudden he drops his cards. I stare the cards dead in the eye and see that i'm going to surpass him! He looks

Erich Maria Remarque utilizes many symbols in chapter 6 of All Quiet on the Western Front to help emphasize the importance and meaning of certain aspects in the book. Within the abundance of symbols used, two that exceedingly stood out were the broken down schoolhouse and the butterflies in the battlefield. At the beginning of this chapter, the soldiers describe “a shelled school-house.” (99). The destroyed schoolhouse signifies how useless their prior education is in their current situation. As they walk past the building, there is a constant reminder that their knowledge of the outside world and how it works cannot help them on the front lines, and many of the soldiers will not make it home in order to even have any hope of receiving an education

Rats scuttling around. Lice crawling everywhere. Diseases spreading like wildfire. Imagine living in conditions like this for weeks on end. Add bullets constantly whizzing past, bombs

"We could have been brothers, but they never want us to know that" (Mann, 1979). The 1979 television film All Quiet on the Western Front depicts the story of Paul Bauman, a German soldier fresh out of high school who decided to enlist for World War I. Throughout the course of the film, viewers see the general events of World War I from the eyes of the “losers”, the Germans. Through the use of a German perspective, the portrayal of the horrors of war, and showing the difference of opinions back home and on the front, All Quiet on the Western Front advocates for a more realistic approach for the dramatization of war and learning an unbiased history.

‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ by Erich Maria Remarque follows the voyage of the protagonist and narrator, Paul Baumer, who is a nineteen year old man fighting for the German army in the front lines in World War I. Baumer joins the war voluntarily with a group of friends after repeatedly listening to the patriotic speeches from their teacher. When the men first join they are innocent and young, but as the novel progresses they become old men in a young man’s body. Throughout the novel each character dramatically changes and loses their identity in different ways

The novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” has many images of war and truly demonstrates the horrors the soldiers experienced. The author constantly provides surreal scenes that make the reader stop and think about how terrible the war was. One image that lingers in my mind is from the beginning when the young recruit lost his helmet and when Paul tried to help him and put it back on his head the boy hugged him. War is happening all around them and Paul shows deep sympathy towards the young boy. The reader cannot help but feel for the young boy and picture him just wanting the comfort of another. Another surreal image that lingers in my mind is when Paul is on leave and loses all feeling and power when he sees his sister and home. He starts

The young soldiers depicted in Erich Maria Remarque's text All Quiet on the Western Front represent a generation without precedent, constancy, or forethought. The men, answering their elders' calls to become national heroes, have lost their innocence on the battlefield and remain forever altered in belief and spirit. Remarque contrasts the cold realities of war in the present to the tranquility of the past in order to illustrate the psychological transformation of the men stationed on the frontlines. The soldiers appear trapped in the present and alienated from their pasts; however, deconstruction of the text rejects the present and past as opposing states of

All Quiet on the Western Front was never written to be like the movies we watch today. When people go to see a movie about war, they typically expect watch a story jam packed with action from start to finish. All Quiet on the Western Front, also has this kind of battle from beginning to end, but was never intended to tell the common sci-fi adventure of which it could be associated to. It is made to speak against the terrible conditions which men had to face in world war won. The movie shows us, that even though there were so many casualties in the aftermath of World War One, there are some things in the world worse than death. The opening of the movie tells how the film is not an accusation, a confession, or an adventure, and the

In the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque and the essay In the Field by Tim O’Brien there is a common theme, camaraderie and the horrors of war. Camaraderie is when soldiers in the war are helpful towards each other when it comes to things such as survival during the war. Horrors of war can be shown by seeing the death of a camarade. Since there is camaraderie shown in both of these pieces it exemplifies the other theme, the horrors of the war because they are often seeing their camarades fall.

Accompanying the great horrors of the war was an extraordinary sense of comradeship that was forged between the soldiers as they went through countless hardships and unimaginable suffering together. Throughout Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul and the men of the Second Company received strength, both mentally and physically, from one another. As the war created a sharp distinction between soldiers and civilians,

In All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque expresses how the human nature of the “Iron Youth” alters because of WW1 after witnessing horrendous acts during the struggle between life and death. The human nature of Paul Baumer changes dramatically as he must conform his life to that of a cold, harsh, unforgiving German soldier. Every event that occurs when the novel begins to unravel as “each man has a mess-tin full for the evening,” to the moment where Remarque shifts to show fighting the oversized, disgusting rats in order to get a crust off an old sandwich exemplifies the war. As human nature progresses from joy to compassion to guilt, the soldiers learn a new definition of surviving as they experience death after death of true

The film, All Quiet on the Western Front, provides a visual representation of the WW1 battle field and the high stress environment soldiers were evoked in, from the start of the war. The renovated movie and the original book publishing, was originated to revolve around German soldier, Paul Baumer. Trench Warfare and the gruesome reality that became the battlefield of World War 1, was depicted through the journey of Paul and his closest comrades. The movie touched upon the actual history of the war but mainly focused on the lifestyle and obstacles the soldiers experienced. The withdrawal from civilian life and the effect the War had on the soldiers became an evident problem as the movie progressed. The film was not “defeatist” towards the war and the manner in which the warfare was held but rather showed the gruesome truth of the fight, using a soldier's journey as a prime testament of how the war affected humans.

All Quiet on the Western Front film adaptation was a nice (but rather campy from a 2014 perspective I guess) film that brought the message of the book to the silver screen. All Quiet follows Paul Bäumer a German soldier through one of the most devastating wars in human history. This film uses its narrative to describe to the audience what the Great War looked and felt like, a cluster of chaos and death. All Quiet states a powerful political message about nationalism and its pitfalls. I feel that the argument made by All Quiet is that nationalism can be detrimental to a country.

“You’re forgetting that I allowed my men to be torn apart. I led, they died. A true commander bears all the pains of his men. Including death,” Orion stated.

He said, “Granted he’s no sacred cow, therefore he’s open to attack and criticism. I doubt he’d ever see that Saigon moment when people realize that something has gone wrong and that, they will lose or fail.