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In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the main character and narrator, Paul Baumer, is a young man just graduated from high school. He enlists to fight for Germany during World War I because of a misguided sense of extreme nationalism, and the hunt for glory. However, when he experiences the horrors of fighting on the front first-hand, the realities of war begin to shape him into someone unrecognizable. Remarque utilizes characterization and intense imagery to illustrate

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Good morning/Afternoon Mr Thorpe and students. Today I will be talking about the contrasting perspectives of Romance and Reality of war using All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen and the visual text labelled “Daddy, What did you do in the Great War?”. All Quiet on the Western Front presents both a Romantic and Realistic perspective on War. The book is romanticized by Paul the main character and his friends school teacher Kantorek who was

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“War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead” (Ken Gillespie). During the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque describes the horrors of war through the character Paul. Convinced to join the war, Paul and his friends, enlist to fight for Germany because their teacher, Kantorek, describes the war as honoring and a great adventure. But, the men quickly learned that they were wronged by their teacher. In the novel, Remarque communicates two major themes through the use of motifs

Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger tells of his own experiences and thoughts during the First World War. This book originated as his own personal diaries from his time serving in the war, and was edited into book format shortly after the war; the first edition being published in 1920. The book essentially lasts for the duration of Jünger’s military career, from start to finish. All Quiet on the Western Front is a work of fiction written by German author Erich Maria Remarque. It tells the story of an

Penned during two distinctly disparate eras in American military history, both Erich Maria Remarque's bleak account of trench warfare during World War I, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Tim O'Brien's haunting elegy for a generation lost in the jungles of Vietnam, The Man I Killed, present readers with a stark reminder that beneath the veneer of glorious battle lies only suffering and death. Both authors imbue their work with a grim severity, presenting the reality of war as it truly exists. Men

All Quiet on the Western Front, is a story based on Paul Baumer and his experiences with war. Paul and several of his friends join the German army to fight on the French front during World War I. They made this decision for honor and glory, but they soon realized war was nothing they thought it would be. Paul experienced many unforgettable scenes. He states from the book, they hid in a graveyard, where the force of the shelling caused the buried corpses to emerge from their graves, as groups of living

Nicolette DiCosola Dr. Buck History 106 13 April 2016 All Quiet On The Western Front I really enjoyed reading All Quiet On The Western Front. This book started off showing the young men ready to take on war, until the first bombing in the trenches takes place. I found this book to be heart breaking, but it doesn’t veer to far from the truth. WWI is described very vividly throughout this piece. In this piece you really understand first of all, how these young men loose that innocence to war in all

Self-Learning Lessons There is no doubt that when war occurs, every single human being is affected by it even if it is just a little. In the novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front” written by Erich Maria Remarque, a group of teenage men, who 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