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novel about the personal struggles and experiences encountered by a group of young German soldiers as they fight to survive the horrors of World War One. Remarque demonstrates, through the eyes of Paul Baumer, a young German soldier, how the war destroyed an entire generation of men by making them incapable of reintegrating into society because they could no longer relate to older generations, only to fellow soldiers. Paul believed the older generation "...ought to be mediators and guides to the

shots. Nolan uses these overhead shots multiple times but especially of the soldiers distributed across a beach convey and unnerving isolation, as it these were there last times on earth as they look as if they are alone and deserted. Another example of how Nolan’s cinematography successfully depicts the evacuation of Dunkirk is when soldiers are found waiting for the tide in an abandoned boat. In this scene, the German soldiers are using that

also appear to by classmates, are in the German army of World War I because they have chosen to leave their adolescence at home and school for grown up work at the army. Throughout this fictional novel, they face many challenges that result in them not seeing each other ever again because of death. War affects individuals by leaving behind necessities such as education or jobs, not being able to watch over others such as their health, and injuries that soldiers receive while they are at war. Many

Chapter 1 The chapter begins with German soldiers at rest after fourteen days of fierce battle on the Western Front. A double ration of food has been prepared so the soldiers are eating their fill. Paul Baumer, the protagonist and narrator of the novel, watches in amazement as his friends, Tjaden and Muller, eat another helping; he wonders where Tjaden puts all the food, for he is as thin as a rail. Baumer is only nineteen years of age. He enlisted in the German infantry because Kantorek, his high

was to run back to my house and hide, but before I could turn my shoulder, the soldiers confronted me. They asked me where my parents were and why I was out alone. At first I wanted to lie and say that I was just stopping by a friend’s house to puck something up, but I decided not to take that risk. Instead, I told them the bare truth about my parents and that we were just wandering around to get some exercise. The soldier at the front (probably the General) responded with an offer. His offer was for

He explores the grim reality the soldiers' faced on a daily basis and demonstrates the tremendous toll the war took on the mental and physical condition of the soldiers. The author, Erich Remarque depicts the brutality of the front and how the war brainwashes many people into thinking that their opponents are evil. The impulse of Paul killing his opponent

This essay will consider the different effects created by Erich Maria Remarque in his novel All Quiet on the Western Front. As a writer, Remarque unknowingly left his novel open to readers with completely different perspectives, and to various forms of criticism. This undoubtedly meant that every single reader had been affected by the novel in many different ways which unfortunately for Remarque may have been an effect that he never intended. This essay is divided into 5 main sections. Firstly it

Strategically speaking, the battle of Belleau Wood was a crucial point for the war effort. If the woods were lost to the German forces would have an easy time moving on to take Paris, which in turn would strike a significant blow against French morale. As the marines arrived they faced an immediate physical threat of being cut down by machine gun fire, but refused to let fear

young German soldier Paul witnesses frequent bloodshed and attempts to keep himself alive. The author, a veteran himself, chooses to leave a political overview of the war from his book in order to truly reveal the anguish of those serving at the front. He criticizes the brainwashing of young men into joining the army, using the narrator’s story to convey the ways in which the conflict desensitizes soldiers to killing. Paul realizes how the war has affected him when he stabs a French soldier and must

amounts of gas, allowing him to warn fellow soldiers of any danger coming in the wind. He proved extremely helpful in locating wounded men in the field and even helped apprehend a German spy he found mapping out the layout of the Allied trenches. For helping capture an enemy spy, Stubby received a promotion to the rank of Sergeant, making him the first dog to receive a rank in the US Armed Forces. In April 1918, as the 102nd Infantry joined an attack on the German-held town of Seicheprey, France, they