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Mrs. Jiruska
War Stories
10 October 2016
“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” (Herbert Hoover). Although All Quiet on the Western Front and Saving Private both shows brutality of war and rough conditions, the novel shows more compassion it’s more realistic in that the emotion and feeling toward the enemies. In the beginning of Saving Private Ryan the viewer witness the American and ally forces execute Operation Overlord. As the American and ally forces storm the beaches they face relentless gunfire by the German forces stationed in bunkers. This is very similar to All Quiet on the Western Front in the way that when Paul is in the front lines under heavy bombardment from the French and British forces …show more content…
"Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades--words, words, words, but they hold the horror of the world." (132). The similar scene was depicted in Saving Private Ryan when the ally forces were pinned and taking cover behind steel girders. Another example of the horrors of war is when in Saving Private Ryan when the ally forces take the hill from the German forces they send troops in with flame throwers to burn the German troops barricaded in the bunker. As the German troops are running around on fire one of the American troops screams “Don’t shoot, let them burn.” This is similar in All quiet on the Western Front when the French troops start using gas weapons like chlorine gas, mustard gas and phosen gas. All of these gases inflict an extreme amount of pain and lead to excruciating deaths that takes hours and days to kill the victims, similar to the use of flamethrowers. In the novel and the film it showed the rough conditions …show more content…
W. Wheen. All Quiet on the Western Front. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.
Saving Private Ryan. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Prod. Steven Spielberg. By Robert Rodat. Perf. Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, and Tom Sizemore. DreamWorks Pictures,
Mrs. Jiruska
War Stories
10 October 2016
“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” (Herbert Hoover). Although All Quiet on the Western Front and Saving Private both shows brutality of war and rough conditions, the novel shows more compassion it’s more realistic in that the emotion and feeling toward the enemies. In the beginning of Saving Private Ryan the viewer witness the American and ally forces execute Operation Overlord. As the American and ally forces storm the beaches they face relentless gunfire by the German forces stationed in bunkers. This is very similar to All Quiet on the Western Front in the way that when Paul is in the front lines under heavy bombardment from the French and British forces …show more content…
"Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades--words, words, words, but they hold the horror of the world." (132). The similar scene was depicted in Saving Private Ryan when the ally forces were pinned and taking cover behind steel girders. Another example of the horrors of war is when in Saving Private Ryan when the ally forces take the hill from the German forces they send troops in with flame throwers to burn the German troops barricaded in the bunker. As the German troops are running around on fire one of the American troops screams “Don’t shoot, let them burn.” This is similar in All quiet on the Western Front when the French troops start using gas weapons like chlorine gas, mustard gas and phosen gas. All of these gases inflict an extreme amount of pain and lead to excruciating deaths that takes hours and days to kill the victims, similar to the use of flamethrowers. In the novel and the film it showed the rough conditions …show more content…
W. Wheen. All Quiet on the Western Front. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.
Saving Private Ryan. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Prod. Steven Spielberg. By Robert Rodat. Perf. Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, and Tom Sizemore. DreamWorks Pictures,