WHAT DID THE MOVIE, “ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT”; TELL YOU ABOUT WORLD WAR 1 AND WARFARE IN GENERAL, USE MOVIE EXAMPLES.…
Ruth feels unwelcomed and out of place when she returns to Vienna after the war. She says that, “The other survivors of my Viennese childhood irritate me like a powerful itch, and I prefer to avoid them” (p. 19). She does not associate Vienna with the alluring essence that tourists and post-Nazi residents describe.…
In a time period filled with war and conflict, the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a difficult read due to the heavy topic it pertains to. The story begins with Paul Bӓumer and his friends from school joining the army. They joined because they thought war would be honorable thanks to Kantorek, their teacher. After their ten weeks of training and their first two weeks of being on the front lines, only eighty of the one hundred fifty men return. Paul’s friend, Franz Kemmerich, has his leg amputated and he eventually dies because of it. At this point, Paul learns to disconnect his feelings from himself. Reinforcements come for their company and they are sent on a mission to place barbed wire on the front lines.…
My knowledge of World War One was solely built on the works of European writers, which I had a chance to read in high school and university. The books such as All Quiet on the Western Front by German writer Erich Maria Remarque, Death of a Hero by English poet Richard Aldington, Doctor Zhivago by Russian novelist Boris Pasternak and The Good Soldier Švejk by Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek shaped my view on the subject, giving me a chance to see the history from many different perspectives. However, only this semester, taking the course with professor Gendal, I finally got an opportunity to learn about American view on this historic event. Among all the books we have read, Company K by William March stood out the most; this book got my full attention from the first page. Company K is an intense…
The novel All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr, is an intricately written story about two young adults during World War II. The two main characters Werner and Marie-Laure come from extremely different lives. Marie-Laure is a blind 16 year old girl who lives in a nice house in France with her dad. Werner is an orphan who lives with Jutta, his sister, who is the only person in his family he knows of. This book tells the story of how these characters that come from seemingly unrelated worlds cross paths in the most unexpected way. These characters are brought together by an item that plays a crucial role in this story; the radio. The radio is an item that plays a major role in Werners life. Although it may seem like just another piece…
The novel, All Quiet on the Western Front is the harshest story about war ever written. This novel was written by Erich Maria Remarque, based on his real life experience about World War 1. It tells a story about a group of companions at war and how they live their life everyday there. After analyzing the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, readers realized that almost all the characters were either very noble or not noble at all. The one character that stood out of all the character for being a noble man was the narrator, Paul. He is the most noble for being loyal to all his companions, for being sensitive to others and for being selfless in difficult times.…
World War I was a brutal and murderous fight. Over 38 million people suffered casualties with 17 million deaths and around 20 million soldiers were wounded during the war. Soldiers showed courage by fighting and learned how important it is to trust other men. They faced hard conditions and suffered many injuries. In the novel, All Quiet on The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque portrays the main character, Paul Baümer, as a superior comrade, a smart decision-maker, and a brave soldier.…
The book "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque is set in a time of sorrow and discovery. WW1 bore some of the first advanced weaponry because of the allies necessity for greater protection from the enemies. That was a huge leap into what was to come in later wars as this artillery began to evolve into the complex ordnance of today. So much new weaponry was being developed and it was the Germans, who are the main focus in the book, who were ahead in developing tactics and technology for war.…
As I read “The Enormous Radio,” my interest was immediately piqued by the author’s use of the word “malevolent” when describing the radio’s green light. The radio has the power to look into other people’s lives and show their secrets to others and judge them for their sins. Irene finds herself judging other people in her building based on what she heard on the radio and she gets drunk on the power it provides her. She wants to see that their problems don’t exist in her own marriage, but she can see that they do which causes a rift in her marriage and puts her in a state of mindful observation. The realization that life is not always ideal completely changed her world view, similarly to how religion changes people’s perspective. The radio has power over her and uses it to force her to hear what is happening on the world around her, inevitably destroying her life as she knew it.…
As soon as the radio is switched on it is described as screaming and it startles the man. He also recognized the radio announcer’s voice but it this was the first time his voice did not sound upbeat and happy as it usually was during his morning show. The author also describes his voice as “Cracking with hysteria” (Hood, pg. 161) which clearly sets the mood in the story. The way his voice is described stresses the role that the announcer plays in this story.…
Upon the outbreak of World War I, excitement ran rampant throughout every country in Europe. It was enthralling, this idea of war, to young people who were bored with their day to day lives. As the war began to drag on the European collective began to truly understand the tragedies that came with it. The toll on European consciousness was immense due to the divide the war caused between civilians and the men who protected them.…
Throughout the story we see the deterioration of Hermann…
In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, one follows the life of Paul Baumer, a private in the German military in World War 1. He and his friends try to survive as the people around them get slaughtered. Slowly one by one his friends die while the others fight for their own lives. This is a war with many inhumane actions that lead to unnecessary death or injury. In the story many inhumane actions spark guilt within a character, causing a humane action to be done in response.…
To sympathize is to feel concern and pity. All Quiet On The Western Front is a book all about feeling lost and sorry for all that have died in the war. Seven brave young German men risked their lives to fight in this war between the Allies and Germans. They were ambitious to succeed and win the war. In the end they all had tragic and horrific deaths, but which three of these men deserve your sympathy the most? I sympathized the most with Paul, Albert, and Detering.…
All Quiet on the Western Front, written in 1929 by Erich Maria Remarque, is superficially the story of one soldiers’ journey in World War 1 and his eventual death. Beneath this, however, Remarque has composed a literary treasure which, above all, seeks to illustrate war as that which is engrained in the nucleus of humanity and through the hugely negative effects of war depicted, seeks to question humanities apparent advancement through its need to engage in such a futile exercise as war. Remarque’s Liberal Humanist ideology is given expression through the correlation between war and nature, thus emphasizing the innate position of war within man, the ultimate paradox contained within an advanced mankind engaging in primitive conflicts and the ironic search for an omniscient being derived from man’s reduction to the barest quest for survival. In addition through the examination of the negativities surrounding the social institutions and hierarchies set up in the absence of god, All Quiet on the Western Front becomes much more than an emotive and well constructed piece of historical realism. In All Quiet on the Western Front, the connections between war and the natural surroundings in which it is fought give rise to the position of war the collective psyche of mankind. The military jargon of the ‚the white puffs of smoke from the tracer bullets‛ is followed by the natural imagery of ‚the sun shining on them‛ in order to emphasize the apparent synchronization between war and nature. The colour imagery of white of the bullets and yellow of the sun, being light colours, connote the harmonious relationship between nature and war. Through the proximity of phrases describing both war and nature in an endearing fashion we are led to conclude that war and nature, or that which is primitive, are fundamentally linked. The gaian imagery ‚Earth, with your ridges and holes and hollows into which a man can throw himself , where a man can hide‛ is ironic as it takes a man-made…