Directions: Even though we have a ways to go before we finish All Quiet on the Western Front, it is helpful to review our literature text and pull out those key or most important excerpts, quotations, descriptions, dialogue, or narration that stand out to you as some of the most significant parts of the text. -Re-read and review your reading -Mark the top 6 to 7 passages with a colored post-it note. -When you and your partner are ready, discuss which of these you each picked. -Decide together on your “final five” passages that you both feel constitute an important or significant moment in the book. -Rank your five choices in order of importance. -Provide a written rationale that answers the “so what?” question; in other words, explore
“We developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity which grew on the battlefield, into the best thing that the war produced - comradeship in arms” (Remarque 19). In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front the men are faced at the decision of life and death, protecting each other so each individual will make it home. Facing horrific images while being put at risk on the line in the front. Comradeship plays an important role in All Quiet on the Western Front, by being able to survive, build a brotherhood bond, and restoring comfort and courage.
Erich Remarque uses compelling symbols in chapter six of All Quiet on the Western Front, many of them have a significant meaning, only two have a powerful meaning. A shelled schoolhouse, in a sense brings the reader this sort of comfort because the feel of school brings them back to the good ole days. It is the days when you did not have to worry about things because mom and dad were there. The shelling part is another thing, it is showing the amount and the type of war going on. The violence in this time and place is unimaginable and the shelled schoolhouse is an example of the violence is being revealed. Remarque is trying to display to the reader that in this day and age of war they did not care about what they destroyed. He describes many bloody situations because he wants the reader to feel the pain and suffering how
In chapter four of Erich Remarque’s book All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque uses sensory images. Putting extra sensory images into a scene gives the reader more idea of what’s happening “I hear aspirant for the frying pan” (52). By describing how excited the men are when they hear geese Remarque is, in a way, letting the reader know that, to soldiers at war the smallest thing can be the brightest beaken of hope. When Remarque outlines how happy the soldiers get over some simple geese, it really helps to show how while the war has helped the men grow up, they are still young boys. In the previous chapter Remarque used sensory images to make the boys seem more grown up by giving them power while beating Himmelstoss “It was a wonderful picture”
“All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque. Right in first perspective of Paullistened to by Paulclimbed, a young front line soldier. It goes from why he joined, his opinions, best parts, and the horrors of what it’s like to be a soldier. Erich Maria Remarque does an amazing job at creating characters that readers can make connections with to help understand what war is like. Every chapter is made with purpose.
In the story “All Quiet on the Westerfront” a guy named Paul goes through many tragedies, such as witnessing death and also killing someone. In an interview with a guy named William Lake, he talks about his stories about how he went through World War 1 and the tragedies he had witnessed. Also in the readings they mention the things they did in war, whether it's Paul helping out the recruits to protect themselves from the danger of the war or if it's William being a messenger having to run across the battlefield. In the book “All Quiet on the Westerfront” Paul goes through World War 1 and goes through people dying everywhere and having to kill to survive, but at the end of chapter 6 Paul has to help out these new recruits because they don’t
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.
Written by Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front is the tale of a young man by the name of Paul. Paul who is nineteen years old gathers several of his friends from school and together they voluntarily join the army fighting for the Axis alliance. Before they are sent off into actual battle, they are faced with the brutal training camp. Along with this they face the cruelty of the life of a soldier. This made them question the reason for which a soldier fights. They are told that they fight because they must be nationalists and must therefore be patriotic. But they began to understand that these are just clichés and are used to brainwash soldiers. Soon after they graduate they are sent into the fray of war. The premature idea of war being glorious and honourable is destroyed when they step into the gruesome actuality of war. They are forced to live in constant fear for their life. Kemmerich, a friend of Paul, gets injured and contracts gangrene. From this his leg is amputated to stop the infection from spreading. Sadly, the operation was done too late and Kemmerich is declared to be slowly dying. Paul and his friend visit Kemmerich is slowly dying, and Müller, another former classmate, overlooks Kemmerich’s horrible state and says that he wants Kemmerich’s boots for himself. Accustomed to life at war, Paul doesn’t consider Müller insensitive. Paul understands that Muller knows Kemmerich will no longer use his boots
In All Quiet on the Western Front, author Erich Maria Remarque uses tactile imagery to emphasize that war is horrific. The main character Paul fights to stay alive every day while in the midst of World War 1 as a German soldier, but injuries are bound to happen at some point, ¨The surgeon pokes around in the wound and a blackness comes before my eyes.” (243). In this quote Remarque uses 2 examples of tactile imagery, movement and feelings. The details used to describe this scene makes you feel as if you were in the surgery with Paul.
In 1929 Erich Maria Remarque published a vivid novel that highlighted the brutality of war, All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque takes the reader on the journey of nineteen-year-old Paul Baumer, a young soldier fighting on the front line for Germany during World War I. Despite its critical acclaim, this celebrated war novel did little to celebrate war.
One of the best, if not the best war novels that is Erich Remarque's “All Quiet on the
Within All Quiet on the Western Front, the most prevalent theme is the horrific nature of war and its ramifications upon the soldiers, both mentally and physically. Through the use of dialogue, a vast contrast in emotion is displayed through Kemmerich’s death. “All three of us are thinking the same thing: even if he did get better he would only be able to use one of them, so they wouldn’t be any use to him.” Through this quotation
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and actual happenings from the war display many similarities. The book does go much more in depth with the war than any other resource or letter, but there is similarities in everything in the book to any other info about World War 1. Looking from All Quiet on the Western Front to actual happenings in the war you can bring them together and see the similarities in living as a soldier in the trenches, and how the men passed time during World War 1.
The Tragedies of Youth in War In WW1 over 10 million young men were killed. This took away all of the soldiers hopes and dreams. In All Quiet on the Western front a novel by Erich Remarque about the evils of war shown through Paul Baumer a German Soldier, It also shows how the men all lost their youth and their lives as young men. The worst place for a young man to be is in war because of the deaths of soldiers, the loss of their youth, and the loss of their sense of home.
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.
All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of the young Paul Bäumer, a man of 19 years who enlisted with his classmates: Kropp, Müller, and Leer. Together with a few others, these men formed the Second Company of the German Army. The story of these young men is a tragic one, full of few laughs and many sorrows. Throughout the story, the author demonstrates the undying loyalty that grows between the protagonist and his friends, specifically Kat, another member of the Second Company. Also, the author gives readers a glimpse into the inner workings of a soldier’s mind, invoking a strong feeling of sympathy as Paul questions who he really is. The protagonist feels as though he will never fit back into peacetime society, for he does not really have a life established in his hometown. Paul is not the only soldier with emotional instability, Kropp showed signs of PTSD early in the story (18.) Finally, the theme of loss is introduced early in the book, with the death of Kemmerich, and is continued throughout the book.