Dr. David L. Snead 's Thesis Statement

“Which in the field developed into the finest thing that arose out of the war - comradeship,” (Remarque 27). Throughout the war, soldiers depend on each other to be able to live another day. Through small acts of kindness, sorrow from loss, and never leaving one behind emerges the theme of comradeship, which is clearly represented in the novel, All Quiet On The Western Front.”

20) O’Brien tells how these young men were drafted which were constantly in fear, they wished to be there obliviously but war takes up all of one’s attention; it played a big role in their life, changing their tactics, personality and becoming a new person. O’Brien uses this to show the stressful moments in war where one has pressure to be alive and in this case to fit in with everyone else and feel part of something, in a lonely place such as the war.

The author believes that the war had a positive outcome but it was unnecessarily disturbing. The accomplishments made during the war has indeed undermined the failures, with misconstrued views. People today think this war was “The best war ever.” Adams creates a realistic picture of the war by describing the major aspects as well as topics that have little coverage to the masses. This includes; the development of teen culture, treatment of homosexuals who took part in the armed forces, minority combat during the war, the physical and mental scars, and economic reorganization of war production.

The Wars, written by Timothy Findley, is a story about World War I, and consists of many shocking images passed over to the reader. Findley accomplishes to pull the reader into the narrative itself, so that the reader manages to feel an impact upon him/her-self about what is read. If it was not for this specific skill, or can also be seen as a specific genre, the novel would not have been as successful as it is now. Also, something that helps the book be so triumphant, there is the fact that Findley never overwhelms the reader with too many gruesome details about the World War I. Instead, he breaks the book down to help the reader calm down from everything that is happening. Throughout the essay, there is going to be some commenting on a

Not every man who 's fought in a war planned on doing so. In fact, not all of them even want to. It 's rare to find enough people voluntarily willing to lay down their lives for their country, so more often than not militaries used what we would call “citizen soldiers.” Citizen soldiers are exactly what they sound like, regular citizens taken from society and turned into people capable of serving in the military. Although it may seem obvious when plainly written out, citizen soldiers had vastly different experiences compared to career soldiers, and Stephen Ambrose attempted to pin down that specific experience in his book Citizen Soldier. Ambrose uses oral interviews from World War II veterans and other materials to explain the experiences of the common American soldier who served in WWII between D-Day and the eventual surrender of the German forces. However, when examining his book, it 's important to ask how successful Ambrose was in painting an accurate picture of this kind of soldier 's life during his service. Is the information he uses specific to the men who served in Europe, or can it also be linked back to the soldiers in the Pacific? This paper will evaluate his work by comparing it to oral interviews from WWII veterans both from the same areas that Ambrose 's veterans serve in and in locations not included in his work.

While she does use secondary sources such as census records, academic journals, books and congressional records; her argument is built on a widespread use of primary sources. These primary sources are primarily newspaper advertisements, editorials, and articles from English and German newspapers in and around Bloomington, IL. She also paraphrases and quotes transcripts from a presidential speech made by Woodrow Wilson before the US entered WWI. Then Wilson’s infamous Flag Day speech presented after the US entered the war which spread the social idea that German spies were seditiously spread out throughout the nation. Brakbill also utilizes an interview, Mozart Lodge minute books and attendance records, McLean County Council of Defense Minutes, Bloomington-Normal City Directory, and images that are imbedded in her argument. Lastly, she includes two letters: one to the editor of the Pantagraph from Reverend G.L. Ide from 1918. The other a letter written to Brakebill by Leola Hahn Ferdinand in 2000. As Brakebill’s reliance on primary resources suggests, her argument is based on mostly qualitative information describing the shift in communal and national opinion as the US entered into WWI. This information is then back up by some quantitative information, but the piece reads as mostly

George, unlike the reader however, is unaware of Editha’s dishonest reasons for her support of the war and ignorantly goes off to war with the innocent belief that his girlfriend actually cares about the outcome of the war itself and not that it might potentially shape him into the man she secretly wishes he was. Howell’s use of Editha and her deceitful motives for supporting the war add a layer of realism to the story, as peoples’ motives in real life are not always pure.

In the opening remarks of the first chapter, Ernst Junger describes the idealistic origins of many of the soldiers called to action. Most of the soldiers drafted into the war were students and factory workers, all of whom lived a fairly sheltered life beforehand. Being drafted was seen as the adventure of a lifetime. They “shared a yearning for danger, for the experience of the extraordinary.” Much like his comrades, Junger had the same sense of adventure, seeing the war as merely a new challenge to conquer. After his first real experience with war however, his enthusiasm is quickly dashed. The harsh reality set in that this war was not, in fact, an adventure. Junger and the former schoolboys and craftsmen quickly learned that life in the trenches was a challenge of endurance. As the war persists, reality slowly sets in and Junger learns the true violent nature of the war and the constant threat of imminent danger through which he must persevere. Ernst Junger’s accounts in the memoir Storm of Steel show the reality of a soldier in World War I and the taxation of enduring such great trauma.

This essay analyzes the first full paragraph on page143 (the second to last paragraph in the story) that begins with “The speaker was through with that war…”. This passage appears to be what is going through ‘General’ Sash’s head right before he dies. The passage begins by saying “The speaker was through with that war and had gone onto the next one and now he was approaching another”. The general goes on to state that all his words are vaguely familiar. This is because he has lived through all of these wars and as the speaker mentions them they all go by in the General’s mind as blurred events of the past. The General calls the graduates

In the year of 1916, Paul Bäumer, a 19 year old German volunteer in the Great War, sits with his comrades laughing and smiling bitterly at the letter their old schoolmaster wrote them. Their old schoolmaster preached them into joining yet knows nothing of war himself. They laugh at how he calls them “The Iron Youth” (Remarque, 16) because they were never iron, and they no longer feel like the youth. The war has taken that from them. They did not have time to make lives before the war. They will not have lives after the war. To these soldiers, nothing can fix the rest of the world’s ignorant bliss; nothing can make anyone else understand. They are lost, deprived of lives, of family, of anything but “despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality

Historians could use this diary from Lt. Fasih to compare and contrast the differences between the opposing sides of WWI, the enlisted personnel to officers, and the horrors that trench warfare had to offer in the years of the Great War. Lt. Fasih’s experience of war represents the typical officer in charge of a series of trenchs during WWI, however not so much the enlisted personnel. An enlisted persons diary would be much different given that they are not given the same privileges as officers.

A year after graduating high school, Hemingway decided to put forth his efforts into joining the war after becoming inspired when he saw men he knew joining. However, he was skeptical, believing his poor eyesight would leave him unaccepted. It wasn’t until engaging with fellow Kansas City Star reporter, Theodore Brumback, that Hemingway learned he could still help the war effort by becoming an ambulance driver for the American Field Service. Leaving behind his disapproving father, the rest of his family and reigning from the Star after

In Regeneration and "Disabled," Pat Barker and Wilfred Owen explore how war affects the individual. Barker and Owen chronicle the lives of soldiers who suffer from physical, emotional and mental trauma from the war. These two writers ' honest, realistic depictions of soldiers ' suffering reveal the incredible costs of war. Barker and Owen show how memories of the war hinder soldiers ' ability to live in the present and drastically transform the way they experience the world.

The book is not about strategic and tactical military issues, but rather a comment on social and economic considerations (p. xxv). To set the social atmosphere to the years just prior to the war, Ferguson details the anti-war poetry and fiction; examples include Alfred Lichtenstein, H. G. Wells, and D. H. Lawrence (p. xxxviii). He gives examples of journalists, including war correspondents, as pro-war. In other words, these writers were promoting nationalism and patriotism for their countries. After the war some of them took the opposite view. War is hell with old men sending the seed of their nations to be slaughtered, while the military establishment grew rich (p. xxix). The social devastation on the human level is depicted in the gut-wrenching film, “All Quite on the Western Front.” This prelude sets up Ferguson’s principal arguments.

World War I, also known as the Great War, was a war of courage, glory, and selflessness. A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a recollection of his war experiences. The protagonist, an American Lieutenant named Fredric Henry, struggles to find the middle ground between his affair with the beautiful and radiant Catherine Barkley and pursuing heroism in the Great War. The lovers’ lives are turned upside-down once they realize they are infatuated with each other. Like Lieutenant Henry, when Hemingway was “serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals” (nobelprize.org). In the hospital, Henry grew impatient because he could not immediately walk away from the facility and his problems. Hemingway uses characterization to develop the people within the story as well as the underlining motifs of loyalty, love, and masculinity.