War is a horrible thing to be experienced by soldiers and civilians alike. Soldiers and civilians are traumatized. The book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a story of a young man going through war. All Quiet on the Western Front story covers the morals of war during World War I based the experiences of the author himself.
All Quiet on the Western Front focuses on the experiences and thoughts of Paul Bäumer, a young nineteen-year-old man who fights in World War I for the Germans. The story starts out with Paul and several friends resting outside five miles from the French front. Paul’s company of one hundred fifty men were now eighty after two weeks of fighting. Paul learns to lose his sense of embarrassment as a recruit in training. As time grows on Paul continues to grow distant from his life before the first bombardment. Kemmerich, a classmate of Paul, has his leg amputated and dies next to Paul. Eventually a new batch of recruits come to reinforce Paul’s company. One-night Paul’s company is given the duty of lining the front with barbed wire. After they finish putting up barbed wire they wait around to be picked back up. Sometime later they are awakened suddenly by enemy bombardment and take cover in a nearby cemetery. They are gassed and experience several loses. After getting taken back after the bombardment, the men’s company must deal with lice removal. Paul and his friends also meet Himmelstoss, a strict training officer that was hard on
All Quiet on the Western Front is a story about the horrors of World War I from the perspective of a German soldier named Paul. Throughout Paul’s service he sees and does horrible things, becoming disillusioned with the ideals of the German high command and of world leaders in general. This book makes it clear not only that the generation of boys and men that were sent out to fight feel betrayed by the previous generation and by their government, but also that there was a huge gap between the soldiers and everyone else around them.
All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque is a narrative describing World War I from a German soldier 's perspective. The story is narrated by Paul Baümer and predominantly revolves around the experiences of him and his comrades Kemmerich, Katczinsky, Kropp, Müller, and Leer. The novel begins with Paul Baümer and his friends in a cheerful mood as extra rations are being allocated to them due to the missing soldiers. During this event, Baümer introduces and describes the various personalities of his friends and his connection to them. Eventually, Baümer reflects back to the time how he and his friends had been coaxed into joining the war by their, patriotic school teacher, Kantorek only to later find out that they 've been lied to and the war isn 't even comparable to of what they 've been told. Instead, Paul Baümer and his school friends find themselves entrenched in the middle of bloody and what appears to be a pointless war.
All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, is a thought provoking tale about war, and the soldiers who fight these wars. The main character is an 18 year old boy named Paul Bäumer. Bäumer, growing up in Germany, decides to enlist in the army alongside his classmates after persuasion from his teacher. His story begins at the front lines of World War One. After two weeks on the front, Paul’s company receives a reprieve from fighting. 80 of the original 150 men in the company (Second Company) return. During his time off, Bäumer begins to reflect upon the circumstances that brought him there, his brutal time in training, and the death of one of his close friends. Over the course of this time of reflection, reinforcements arrive, and Bäumer’s company is redeployed into the front.
The novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, is the story of young Paul Baumer and Troop 9 as they battle in World War I on the Western Front for Germany. This novel differs from most every war novel in that it shows the true emotions and feelings of a soldier on the battle field. It does not portray the men as valiant soldiers protecting their country, but strips away the romanticized view of soldier’s war to portray the raw feelings that soldiers have in the midst of warfare. The troop does not die all together but they are seen dropping one by one. As both Paul Baumer’s life and the battle on the Western Front move forward, Paul’s values, along with those of other the soldiers, evolve until they culminate in Baumer’s
The author Erich Maria Remarque, wrote All Quiet on the Western Front to show that war is very destructive. Sometimes people need to ask themselves, is war worth it? Through all that it destroys, what does it accomplish? Just like Paul during World War I people need to remember the ugly reality that is war before they go guns blazing’ into a situation when they are not fully aware of the cost. During World War I, Paul and his company go into the war thinking they are the “iron youth” and that war is glorious and it is their duty to serve in this honorable war. Then they go on and see that war is horrendous and very ugly. Sometimes people need to be reminded of that
All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel written by Erich Maria Remarque that takes place in World War I. This novel is about an eighteen-year-old German boy that enlists with his classmates to the war. All of the boys that enlisted are very excited but they have no idea what war is really like. Throughout the years of fighting, Paul realizes that war is his life. He never really had a life after school so once the war is over he will have nothing to go back to. Paul thinks that war is horrible but that is all he has. During this novel, Paul experiences lots of brutal deaths. He watches his friends die and he can't do anything about it. He also sees young men risking their lives for their country. In this essay, I will go over the brutality of war using similes and personification quotes from All Quiet on the Western Front.
In All Quiet on the Western Front, the author paints a realistic and gruesome tale of war. Many people believe that war is a glorious event. The author succeeds to show how gruesome and devastating war actually is. In many books, movies, and TV shows, war is described as glorious and good. War is not glorious or good from the beginning of time people have been at war and from that people have died. War is shown as the thing that gets the girl or the thing that makes people see you as a king and that people come back untouched. That is the false way the Hollywood and others have butchered the reality of war.
focusing on the life of the soldiers.The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, tells the story of the German soldiers in world war I. This novel illustrates the destructions of a war and the real effects of a war on a soldier’s live while finding villains and heroes amongst the soldiers. The soldiers are also shown to be normal human beings just like anyone else in the world. Villainous and heroic characteristics exists in or outside of a war, in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the villains and heroes are judged by a humanity scale
World War I was one of the deadliest wars in human history, taking the lives of millions and changing the lives of countless more. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, 19- year-old German soldier Paul Bäumer strives to survive in the Western Front of World War I. Throughout the novel, the war forces Paul to change his character into a hopeless soldier that relies on instinct to only survive in battle. Once an ambitious and compassionate young man, the horrors, and anxieties of war induces Paul to detach his inner personality from reality forces him to focus on war. As a result, Paul struggled to understand himself and could not conceive a future without war, transforming his existence into an endless suffering, destroying Paul long before the war kills him.
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, is a novel illustrating the struggles in World War 1. Paul, whom the novel is based upon, is forced to change his personality to avoid mental damage during war. Paul and his group of friends are altered not only physically, but also mentally. Experiences during war causes them to cast their emotions away to avoid getting hurt emotionally. Paul and his comrades are being shaped by the experiences during war and are beginning to accept that life is fragile. As war drags on, death becomes common enough to become a casual thing for Paul. When Paul goes back to talk to Kemmerich’s mother, he is shock how much pain she is in, “. . . she strikes me as rather stupid all the same. . .Kemmerich
Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It is a story, not of Germans, but of men, who even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. The entire purpose of this novel is to illustrate the vivid horror and raw nature of war and to change the popular belief that war has an idealistic and romantic character. The story centers on Paul Baümer, who enlists in the German army with glowing enthusiasm. In the course of war, though, he is consumed by it and in the end is "weary, broken, burnt out, rootless, and without hope" (Remarque page #).
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Remarque, is a classic anti-war novel about the personal struggles and experiences encountered by a group of young German soldiers as they fight to survive the horrors of World War One. Remarque demonstrates, through the eyes of Paul Baumer, a young German soldier, how the war destroyed an entire generation of men by making them incapable of reintegrating into society because they could no longer relate to older generations, only to fellow soldiers.
The novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, is story of the fictional character Paul Baumer and his troop Troop 9 as they battle in World War I on the Western Front for Germany. This novel differs from most war novels in that it does not portray the men as valiant soldiers protecting their country. The way that the story is told strips away the romanticized view warfare and portrays the raw emotions that come with being on the front lines of a battle. As both Paul Baumer’s life and the battle progress, Paul’s values, along with those of the other soldiers, evolve until they culminate in Baumer’s own passing.
The Impact of War in All Quiet on the Western Front The violent elements that shape war strip a soldier from humanity and morals. Throughout All Quiet on the Western Front, German novelist Erich Maria Remarque portrays the horrors of war through the perspective of Paullistened. Paul is a young soldier who participated in World War I alongside his comrades. During the war, the soldiers experience death, injury, and their minds are altered beyond belief. Their hope for survival is tainted by the fact that they have already been brutally scarred by the events they witnessed.
All Quiet on the Western Front is a fictional war story by Erich Maria Remarque that takes place in the First World War. Erich Maria Remarque was a German soldier in the First World War who suffered multiple injuries during his service. Erich Maria Remarque wrote All Quiet on the Western Front based on his experience from the First World War. The First World War is the first war to employ trench warfare, which was the digging of tunnels known as trenches to use as a defensive position on a battlefield, as a military strategy. The use of trenches in the First World War caused many casualties due to the fact that the trenches are good defensive encampments, and the use of trenches caused many stalemates that were very hard to break without losing