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The main character, Paul Baumer, of the war novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, clearly is a dynamic character since he changes throughout the novel when new situations arise. He enlists in the army along with some of his schoolmates due to the encouragement of his schoolmaster- Kantorek. These men enter the war as keen soldiers who want to defend their country. However, as time goes by, their own world shatters as they spend time in the trenches and the front line. As

Pocket full of books Can you see the light? Title: All The Light we cannot See Author: Anthony Doerr Publication Date: 2014 Publisher: Scribner Pages: 544 Keywords: Fiction, Historical, WWII, Doerr, Andrew. “You will all surge in the same direction at the same pace toward the same cause... you will eat country and breathe nation.” Highly acclaimed author Anthony Doerr has succeeded again in presenting a stunningly written bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year (2015). The

Erich Maria Remarque’s novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” is a story about World War I told from the perspective of a German soldier. Remarque’s purpose behind this book was to portray the physical and mental damage that young men in Europe endured because of this war. In the author’s note directly before the first chapter Remarque explains, “This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession…” However, the story does not portray Germany as a glorious country, because it tells the truth

an event, can only be experienced first-hand for what horrors it truly brings. World War I, also known as The War to End All Wars, brought darkness to the world from July 28, 1914, to November 11, 1918, as several combatants took place in the war. Erich Remarque's novel takes place during World War I as it tells a story about young German soldiers fighting on the front line. Throughout the novel, Paul Bäumer, the main protagonist, faces many horrors such as the loss of his comrades, the brutality

humanitarian value and poignant through its interrogation of the complexities of human nature through their manipulation of characterisation and symbolism, All Quiet on The Western Front and The Grapes of Wrath are two humanitarian novels written by Erich Maria Remarque and John Steinbeck during World War One and the Californian Dust Bowl. Combining the injustices and struggles caused by a society torn by war, famine and struggle, Remarque and Steinbeck prove that despite the inhumanity in which we

a teacher pressures you to enlist in the army and talks about the glory and honor you could gain. As a result, you wouldn’t have the same thoughts, feelings, personality about life, as you do in war. In the novel, All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German Army during World War I. Through the years of vivid horror, Paul holds a single promise to fight the act of hate that absurdly pits people of his generation

To the soldiers fighting in World War I, there was nothing more like hell, than the trenches on the Western Front. It was here, that Erich Maria Remarque argues through his book “All Quiet on the Western Front,” that an entire youth was changed from young hopeful volunteers into savage beasts. Paul Baumer explains to us how one was to survive on the battlefield. “The animal instinct that is awakened inside of us, we are led and protected,”(Remarque, 56), saying that one must turn off their mind

No one wants to fight alone. Everyone wants friends and family to help them through whatever they’re currently going through. However, there is no one else you can rely on when it comes to your personal war, and you just have to get through it all by yourself. While war is a variety of things, romanticized, tempestuous, angry, greedy, what it really is when all put together is lonely. The book Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad shows this off in its main theme of survival, having Norman have

In Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, the main character, Paul Baumer, becomes a hero during his time as a soldier during World War I. Near the beginning of the novel, he is convinced to enlist by his teachers, parents, and fellow classmates when he is eighteen years old. During training, they begin to realize that war is not all they thought it would be. After being sent to the front, Paul and his comrades witness many atrocities. This leads Paul to the realization that humans

that causes one to become blinded by anger, regret their actions, and feel immense amounts of sorrow for and towards others. The works of literature written by Erich Maria Marque, Thomas Hardy, and Denise Levertov help to shed light on these horrors of war. War causes one to become blinded by anger. All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Marque, is about how war allows one to kill no matter the circumstances. Marque writes how war no longer becomes about the “fight”, but about the ability