Paul feels like he is a freak for not standing up to Erik and Arthur. After a while in the book he didn't feel like a freak even though he was still afraid of Erik (86). Paul can finally see how good he can be. Paul can see a lot more than his parents even though he is supposed to be almost blind. Keeping the truth from loved ones is hard and painful.…
The first main instance is in chapter 6. In Chapter 6, Paul and a few others comes across a few soldiers whose noses are cut off by the enemy’s and eyes poked out with bayonets. Their mouths and even their noses are stuffed with some sawdust so they suffocate to death (if not already dead). This constant view of death that causes the soldiers to fight back like insensible animals. They used spades to butcher the enemy faces and jab bayonets into the backs of enemy’s who was too slow to get away from the bloodbath.…
In chapter six of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, he develops the idea of disillusionment, an example of this is when Paul gives the description of the shelled school house, “stacked up against the longer side is a high double wall of yellow unpolished brand new coffins” (99) of all the soldiers who will die at the front which could end up being Paul and his comrades. Tjaden says this due to the fact that he knows, an abundance of the soldiers are going to die at the front. The recruits are dying because “they have hardly any training and are sent into the field with only theoretical knowledge” (129). With the recruits being sent to the front and them only having theoretical knowledge, and no combat knowledge is taking…
This epiphany in Paul’s life finally allows him to see the truth and after figuring out this mysterious event from the past he can finally accept himself for who he is. He no longer feels strange, hopeless, or lost because of this revelation and it allows him to gain the courage to confront his parents and finally get the information that he needed out of them to feel okay. Paul becoming confident with himself was caused by his flashback to the cause of his…
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 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.…
(Remarque 172-173). Reading quotes like this one provoke thought and emotion in the reader’s mind. Think about the thoughts and emotions that the soldiers felt as they witnessed an atrocity like in the above quote. Something as traumatic as such could cause the soldiers to develop post traumatic stress disorder. Post traumatic stress disorder is a semi-treatable condition that Paul and his friends would have had to cope with because of their time spent fighting in World War One.…
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…
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.…
The jumper died as soon as he hit the ground. Lucky him. It hardly ever happened like that. My sneakers neared the ledge, toes hanging over. In the distance, three armored cars were tearing across the stretch of sand.…
Paul is no longer the narrator, and the story is now told in third-person because Paul dies. The way Paul dies is ironic because he is finally at peace, the day is calm. It is almost as though he was glad that the end had finally came This book was written so the world be able to hear of the brutality of war. Not necessarily understand it, but be able to hear what war was like.…
Paul Bauer from the novel All Quiet on the Western Front and Adolf Eichmann were both guilty of a lot, granted one character is a piece of historical fiction while the other is real, but how similar are they, really? Paul Bauer and other German soldiers committed atrocities upon the opposing armies during World War 1 such as the use chlorine gas. Adolf Eichmann is responsible for sending millions of Jewish people to what were essentially death camps, where some were worked to nigh death and others were killed outright, often times in gas chambers. Thus are they really all that different as both are responsible for massacring human lives, one simply did so on a battlefield and the other did so in an office. Both men were wrapped up in what seemed…
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.…
While running his hand over Prince’s ribs, Paul feels “a sudden shame, a sting fear that Ellen might be right in what she said” (147). This marks the beginning of his epiphany. Because of the comforting environment he is in, he begins to be aware that he and his family are suffering because of the condition of the farm. The dust circling around his home is placing risk not only on their health, but also their future. Therefore, to bring a brighter future for his son and wife, he begins contemplating on how to confront he was wrong and Ellen was right.…
In the scene, Paul reveals how his exposure to death had caused him much…