Their cold-heartedness is contrasted with the reaction of the new recruits who cried and trembled out of fear . In the next quote after Paul sees this awful sight and he describes what he thinks him and many others have become.…
Erich Maria Remarque is perhaps one of the greatest German novelists in the early twentieth century. He was born on June 22, 1898, in Osnabruck, Germany. He received U.S. citizenship in 1947, but preferred to live in Europe until he died on September 25, 1970, in Locarno, Switzerland at the age of seventy-two. His famous novel All Quiet on the Western Front was first published in 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and published in a book form later in 1929. Because of the nature of the novel, “it was banned and burned in Nazi Germany for promoting anti-war sentiment” (Tighe 48).…
Victoria Mestre Ms. Kiefer All Quiet On The Western Front: PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD takes over the lives’ of people everyday. PTSD is a debilitating anxiety disorder that is often found in individuals whom have experienced traumatic or traumatizing events. PTSD is common in individuals whom have served in the military and have witnessed traumatic events, therefore, making it next to impossible to live their everyday lives. http://www.bing.com/search?q=ptsd&src=IE-TopResult&FORM=IETR02&conversationid=…
Paige Sherlock English 2 First Analytical Essay Topic 3 Changing a Global Perspective All Quiet on the Western Front, an international bestseller, was named the greatest war novel of all time for a multitude of reasons. These reasons do not include his ability to tell an enticing story or describe key points in great detail, but because it changed the perspective of millions of people all over the world and their concept of war. In Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, he shattered the idea of war everyday citizens had by telling the story of a platoons journey in gruesome detail and unveiling the truth about the horrors of war.…
After experiencing the war, nothing is the same as what it once is, books which Paul read many times are no longer valuable to him, his own house has an eerie strangeness to it. Going from having to be on guard at any mosoldierst and living with constant anxiety and stress, to going back to a time when Paul still had his youth, his innocence, and is carefree, is a big change. The experience of war will take away Paul’s and his fellow soldier’s curiosity and aptitude for fun and learning for the rest of their lives. The soldier’s relationships with their environment and peers will never be the same after the…
After being assigned to practice All Quiet on the Western Front duties for chapter two as homework, Mr. and Mrs. Davis set out to perform thorough checks to ensure that everybody has done their jobs. The assignment was honestly quite tedious, but it has given students a firm grasp on the understanding of the book. Mrs. Davis gave a clear explanation of what was going to transpire while they went around class for any time All Quiet on the Western Front work was due. While they checked, the students were to go around amongst their table and practice sharing their best IMG_1098.JPG Students engaged in AQWF discussion question for each job.…
All Quiet on the Western Front and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder All Quiet on the Western Front causes its readers to imagine the horrors of war. "In the branches dead men are hanging. A naked soldier is squatting in the fork of a tree, he still has his helmet on, otherwise he is entirely unclad. There is only half of him sitting up there...and somewhere else is plastered a bloody mess that was once a human limb. Over there lies a body...”…
By the end of the book, after the majority of the years of battling Paul has no longing to continue battling. He feels as if he doesn't ha anything to go home to, and his whole era has been wiped…
“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” (Remarque 263). Paul saw the true colors of war and he has to suffer the consequences. Soldiers are shown a world full of violence and it causes a new perspective on life. Their youth is diminished and their lives will never be the…
“War does not determine who is right- only who is left,” is a quote by Bertrand Russell. This spectrum expresses the casualties of war. In other words, Russell means war is used as an outlet to define a “winner”, or in this case, someone who is right. The veiled truth is that there are no true winners of war when comparing the damage created and the lives lost. Looking at war through that perspective, John F. Kennedy, among others, also agreed.…
World War I was one of the deadliest wars in human history, killing sixteen million soldiers alone, with a total of thirty seven million casualties including civilians. Mankind has been shaped by war throughout its existence. War can vary with type such as guerrilla or nuclear warfare. However, one aspect of war that remains the same is its ability to lay waste to all in its path. War has killed, not only the promising young men and women, but it has killed their dreams and goals.…
To be able to here the testimony of the horrors the soldiers were faced with every day. Some of the most popular war movies such as Pearl Harbor, Saving Private Ryan, and The Patriot are all great war movies. However, these movies romanticized what war was like. Whereas in this novel, it depicts how war was actually experienced. With 126,000 casualties of the United States alone, All Quiet on the Western Front replaces that romantic and heroism of these other novels with the brutal reality of death and violence.…
As the fighting drags on, both Paul’s physical and emotional conditions begin to take a dark turn; there is only so much that a young man of twenty years can experience before his mind and body start to break down beyond repair. The war in which Paul fights slowly strips him of his humanity to his most brutish and primitive state, in which his experiences become meaningless and utterly unbearable for him. Throughout the novel, Paul is steadily stripped of his humanity through lacking a sense of belonging, being desensitized by the horrors of war, and seceding from the civilized world. In losing a sense of belonging, both at home in Germany and on the Front in France, Paul’s experiences become meaningless for him progressively throughout the novel.…
In order to be a good soldier, a person must become like everyone else. Remarque writes about how Paul and his comrades went to enlist eager to fight for their country,…
One soldier says to Paul "If your father came over with them, you wouldn't hesitate to fling a bomb at him". This is showing how that because Paul is so focused on Killing anyone who comes from the opposition's side so that he can survive he wouldn't notice if he knew them or not. Paul, along with the other German soldiers are made to become mindless puppets. They have no knowledge of who they are killing and why. War has striped Paul and the other soldiers of knowing who they are, and of individual actions.…