Erich Pommer

Throughout the course of the war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, the cruelty of war is made apparent. The novel opens with Paul and his comrades, showing how they struggled through strenuous days of training. As time goes on, the young men experience many hardships as they try to survive the war. In the end, their lives are claimed by the ever merciless war, a bitter end to their story, which ironically happens shortly before the war comes to a swift end. The system of hierarchy within the

All Quiet on the Western Front recalls the story of a German soldier on the front lines during World War I. Throughout the book Paul Baumer expresses his thoughts on the horrors of war, as well as, his new found brotherhood and sense of family with his fellow soldiers. The author has written this story as an adventure, but meticulously added the harsh truth of the battlefields. Remarque’s narrative was so effective because his narrative techniques, such as point of view, mood, and conflict, bring

Gunshots are going off, my men are dying everywhere the chaos does not seem to stop, and suddenly a mortar strikes our bunker. An eerie silence fills the air along with a thick cloud of black smoke. Ok, now that I’ve got your attention I would like to explain a bit about Tibetan Sky Burials. There are many burial ceremonies around the world but, the Tibetan Sky Burial in particular, proves to be the most interesting and ultimately the most gruesome of all. The origin of this fascinating burial remains

Banning books that some people consider inappropriate could prevent the knowledge of past history, as well as intelligence and different aspects of opinions. For all these reasons, I believe that books should not be banned! Banning books is similar banning the freedom of expression. Not only can banning books prevent this, but it also prevents people from being able to learn from real issues that authors want to share with their readers. The book All Quiet on the Western Front is about a young

Source A written by R.H. Mottram is useful because it gives the historian information about the experiences of an allied soldier on the western front. From Source A, a historian would learn about the emotions, what they saw and hear during World War One. Source A is a primary source and is a written diary entry. This source is a British-allied soldiers perspective from 1929, his motive in this source is to tell how he “ first saw war” the way the soldier wrote wasn't meant for everyone to be reading

I am contacting you as a foot soldier on the Western Front, where I am currently stationed somewhere along the German-French front (exact location unknown). I am reaching out to you, as a dedicated soldier devoted to serving his country and providing optimal living conditions for its people. As a dedicated soldier devoted to serving his country, I think it best that we concede to the war that is depriving Germany of her happiness. Germany’s people are on edge, whether it be from the countless number

Being in the war himself, Remarque has encountered the abhorrences of it firsthand. He has seen individuals bite the dust and the battering that his kindred companions and fighters took to the point he developed PTSD. In his novel, he was attempting to pass on his musings on war to the subjects of Germany and in the end America and different nations. This is a hostile to war novel which depicted the cruelty of the war in courses, for example, themes, images and the immaculate fierceness that has

All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Remarque’s 1929 novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, serves as a times capsule of the Great War. Throughout his novel, Remarque explores the horror of WWI, portraying the animal qualities it possesses. Going deeper he examines the effects the war had on soldiers lives and mindsets. Furthermore, the politics that go into war and the disconnect between those who start it and those who fight it, is discussed. The Great War marked a time of extreme horror for

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow”(263). In Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul Baumer never lived the life he wanted. Before he volunteered he had just begun to “love life and the world”(88). But when he was in the war he and his comrades “had to shoot it to pieces”(88). The war changed his perspective. Paul wrote how after fighting he no longer wanted to take the

There are plenty of factors that makes Erich Maria Remarque book, ‘All Quiet on the Western Front universal. Factors such as, the brotherhood between the guys, loss of youth/innocence, the horror of war, denial of the soldiers, and Kemmerich’s boots. I will discuss three of these universal themes that stood out the most to me throughout the book. I will focus on the brutality of war, the denial to talk about their experiences outside of the war zone and on Kemmerich’s boots and the role it played