The weather has taken a turn for the worse today. The rain is unbearable it’s turning the trenches into large putrid bathing pools. The mud that lines the walls of the trenches is now sloppy and drips upon the men along side me. Some of the men so I have been told have drown in the mud, simply because they have been to weak to fight the mud‘s grasp within these dreadful trenches . It’s getting beyond belief now, I don’t know if I can stand much more. I hate to admit it
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
How useful and reliable are these sources in explaining what conditions in the trenches were like? The trenches were a very revolting place. Soldiers had to battle on the front line as bullets would fly past their faces. They were very cold and wet which caused many illnesses to the soldiers. Lice and rats would bother the soldiers all day and would feed of the soldiers who have died. The trenches were cramped which caused a lot of discomfort to the men. They had to change their socks regularly
Beginning- In the beginning of this novel, a boy named Helmuth Hubener is in a prison cell in a place known as Plotzensee Prison in Berlin, awaiting his execution. He starts having flashbacks about when Hitler rose to power. When he was younger, Helmuth was a strictly religious boy. He often found himself thinking that he was floating, and god was watching over him. As he grew up, he started gaining faith in Hitler and believing every word he says, but Helmuth had no idea what Hitler really
The realism, grisly detail, and irony Remarque injects his story of WWII in the trenches on the front lines from the German perspective somehow remains poetic because of his lyrical writing style. Nineteenth century society was not ready for Remarque’s new language of war. Until this novel society held the illusion of war as both glorious and romantic. The idea of such a thing traces back to the ancient Spartans carrying forth to 19th century Europe (Traver 2002). Before Chapter One, Remarque introduces
I am certainly tired of the rain pouring into our trenches
‘Dulce et Decorum est’ is a poem written by Wilfred Owen, an English soldier in 1917. This poem tells us that fighting in World War One isn’t as ‘sweet and fitting’ as the government had described to the young soldiers. For example, the second half of the third stanza is a bitter accusation to the government, who had said that dying in the war would be sweet and fitting for your country by using his own friend’s death to contradict this claim with several writing techniques to describe it. Firstly
Wilfred Owen's Dulce Et Decorum Est, Tim OBrien's The Things They Carried, and Siegfried Sassoon's Suicide in the Trenches Many war pieces express a distinct sense of truth, hatred, and anger that can be found in the style, tone, and imagery they possess. Incredible images are created in ones mind as war writings are read and heard. Works written by such writers as Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and Tim OBrien really reach out to the audience by way of the authors choice of words and images
It was one of the most unique battle styles in the history of war. Life in those trenches was anything but cozy. The trenches were dug on the front line, the most dangerous place to be (Life in the Trenches of the First World War). People in the trenches faced heavy artillery, machine gun fire, and small weapon fire as well. Soldiers in the trenches lived night and day in fear of their life. Conditions in the trenches were far from sanitary. Trench life was unlike anything anyone has ever seen before
for men. The trenches were under continuous threat from shells or other dangerous weapons and there were also many health risks which developed into larger problems for doctors. Apart from the unavoidable cold during the winters, trenches were often completely waterlogged and muddy infested with lice and rats. What is Trench Warfare? Trench Warfare is a type of fighting where both sides build deep holes in the ground. These holes in the ground are known as trenches. These deep trenches are used a