Analysis Of Chapter Seven 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.

From the beginning Paul has many doubts about his life after the war. Compared to the older men, he had no career or love to hopefully reunite with. As he imagines a life away from the violence, he realizes these boys entered the war before

Through out this book the author shows that war is not about heroism and fighting nobly for your country, war is a terrible thing. Paul and his friends are on the frontline in the shelters for days and the pressure gets to the men as Paul says here. "The recruit who had the fit earlier is raving again and two more have joined in. One breaks away and runs for it." This shows that the frontline, added by lack of food, has driven the young recruits mad and so much so that one recruit runs away out into the battle field with inevitable consequence of death. Paul describes the front line in many ways to show the reader and give the reader a good picture of what the frontline is like for a soldier, as Paul expresses here." The front is a cage and you have to wait nervously in it for whatever happens to you", and Paul also says. "I can be squashed flat in a bomb-proof dugout, and I can survive ten hours in the pen under heavy barrage without a scratch." This shows the reader that it is very unpredictable on the frontline and that a soldier owes his life only to lucky chances that they have not yet been killed.

The young men at the front had a distant relationship that seemed to grow as the war went on. The men that fought at the front became alienated through all of the gruesome scenes they encountered and the problems they faced daily. After just two weeks of battle only half of the men that went to battle with Paul remained at the battle front. Paul along with all of the other soldiers at the front had to see their “brothers” shot and killed or wounded while fighting right by their side. Paul

The use of comradeship emphasizes the importance of a brotherhood that comforts each other, and makes each other feel safe. According to Paul, "They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades" (212). Paul shows that camaraderie in the war is of utmost importance to the soldiers. The close relationships and strong bonds developing during the war enable the soldiers to remain hopeful and sane. Comradeship motivates the men to keep going, especially when they want to give up. While explaining how war created comradeship, Paul says, "What does he know of me or I of him? Formerly we should not have had a single thought in common—now we sit with a goose between us and feel in unison, are so intimate that we do not even speak" (94). In the novel Paul and Kat share a goose. He explains

The French soldier dies an agonizingly painful and prolonged death; his gurgling and whimpering haunting Paul, but when the soldier finally dies, the resulting silence is even more haunting and debilitating. “Paul describes the trenches, the shelling, the screams of wounded horses and men, the poison gas attack, and the rain that drenches everything. [He] describes the tension and the horror of a major battle, with the confusion, the noise, and death turning the soldiers into numbed, unthinking machines.” (All). Paul recognizes how war forces people to think and act in ways that differ from their values and beliefs, as they are desperate to survive. Remarque uses imagery and sensory details to skillfully formulate a raw and grisly atmosphere that leaves no aspect hidden. Towards the end of the novel, many of Paul’s comrades have died, and he is the only person left in his class who is alive. He expresses the desolation and misery he feels, “I am very quiet. Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear.” (Remarque 295). Paul has nothing left to lose at this point, so he faces his enemies free of fear and obligation to return back to his friends and his home. His sorrowful tone conveys his indifference towards death and his desire

While on leave, Paul also visits his father and some of his father's friends, but does not wish to speak to them about the war. The men are "curious [about the war] in a way that [Paul finds] stupid and distressing." They try to imagine what war is like but they have never experienced it for themselves, so they cannot see the reality of it. When Paul tries to state his opinion, the men argue that "[he] sees only [his] general sector so [he is] not able to judge." These men believe they know more about the war and this makes Paul feel lost. He realizes that "they are different men here, men [he] can not understand..." and Paul wants to be back with those he can relate to, his fellow soldiers. Paul wishes he had never gone on leave because out there "[he] was a soldier, but [at home] he is nothing but an agony to himself." When Paul returns to the battlefield, he is excited to be with his comrades. When he sees his company, "[Paul] jumps up, pushes in amongst them, [his] eyes searching," until he finds his friends. It is then

The effects of war are very vast and it is a wide variety of occurrences to cover. War can break a man down physically or mentally whenever it pleases to do so. “In war there are no unwounded soldiers” Jose Narosky. In the book All Quiet on the Western Front war affects men on the frontlines in many ways, and leaves scars on their lives forever. Also, in the book Night, Jews are affected by war in concentration camps in World War two and they endure a different kind of war. These texts both deal with the effects of war and what it can do to a population. Both of them have Comradeship with the people in both books having to work together to stay alive.

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.

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque uses metaphors to help the reader better understand the mindset and hardships of a soldier. Earlier in the book, Remarque talks of the soldier’s unexplainable longing to be a part of the war. He compares the front to “a mysterious whirlpool” and himself to the still water just outside of it (Remarque 55). Although he is far from the center, he is still “slowly, irresistibly, inescapably” sucked into combat. Remarque also illustrates the horrors of war and the mental obstacles a soldier must go through. The soldiers are “little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls”, meaning the war has made their minds fragile and prone to many dangers. Their tragic experiences makes their flame “flicker and sometimes

Through the two powerful war novels, All Quiet on the Western Front, a fictional piece written by Erich Maria Remarque in 1928, and Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, readers experience the horrors and struggles of World War I and World War II. In AQWF, Paul Baümer, a young nineteen-year old boy, enlists in the army to join the German army in World War I with his classmates. Initially filled with excitement, the boys shockingly face their greatest nightmares with scarce resources and monotony with the ceaseless sounds of shells and wails from soldiers haunting them as the trudge through muddy trenches, holding onto each other for support. As the “Iron Youth”, the proud leaders of their generation, they fight in hopes of bringing honor

Salva is a boy who had to go through a war when he was eleven years old. because of the war salva was forced to run for his life leaving every thing his friends, family, and home. After almost dying in a war an old woman found him she fed him and let him stay for a wile. very soon though the lady had to leave to get something. salva begged the lady so he cold go but the answer was still no. salva joined a group of men how were looking for a refugy camp they were less than diluted to hare him they sad he would slow them down. but soon salva found his uncel and made a new friend marild was his name but his friend didn't last long a lion ate him. salva was scared but his uncel sad that he would protect salva after that they had to cross a desertsavas

Many of Paul's fellow army men do not survive. After the loss of Paul's closest friends,

While reading chapters 7-11 of Brave New World, my perspectives of Bernard changed and I was shocked at the reactions towards John the Savage. At first Bernard seemed perceptive and independent; however, as I read this section I realized he is self-absorbed and conceited. His true self was brought out by the presence of the savage: “Meanwhile, however, there was the first Savage; they were polite. And because they were polite, Bernard felt positively gigantic—gigantic and at the same time light with elation, lighter than air(Huxley 157).”

Through the manipulation of point of view Malouf explores the personal journey from innocence to experience and becoming self-actualised. A third person point of view allows the author to narrate as Jim undertakes his journey into manhood and is exposed to the harsh realities of life. Initially he is an innocent bird watcher with his only concern being to discover new species and document them as his own. Although when it comes to life in the trenches, it is not straightforward, writing in his diary Jim notes that he is surrounded by a world of bullets, rifles, machine-guns and bloody, mutilated bodies. Descriptive language is used while describing the horrors of war and traumas the men must face, for Jim was, breathless, and still trembling,