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.…
War will take its toll on a soldier. In the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque, the soldiers of Second Company come out of the war damaged in many ways which are almost unpreventable. Their bodies are hurt, their minds are full of fear and they are eventually molded to think that being surrounded death is a normal day to day thing. The soldiers relationships with people and places are destroyed their generation is lost. War leaves them alone and afraid.…
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...”…
This book was composed so the world has the capacity know about the ruthlessness of war. No one is able to comprehend it but rather have the capacity to hear what war was similar to. To have the capacity to hear the confirmation of the abhorrences the fighters were confronted with consistently. The absolute most well-known war motion pictures, for example, Pearl Harbor, Saving Private Ryan, and The Patriot are all extraordinary war motion pictures. Then again, these motion pictures romanticized what war was similar to.…
“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.…
All Quiet On the Western Front shows the true brutality of war and we see its effect as certain things begin to take a toll on every character throughout the story with what they see and go through while they are fighting in the Trenches. The Story has six main characters that are described and recalled…
The horror of war is not only felt by the soldiers, but the civilians who also experience its horrors although not perhaps to its fullest extent. War does not distinguish between civilian or soldier, its horrors spread and cause physical and mental detriment. In the novel, All Quiet on…
The men have a discussion on who starts the war, they reach the conclusions that even if the Kaiser had said no to the war it would have happened. They decide that a war is started because the government is outraged by another country. Even though, the country claims they are fighting for their fatherland. It is really just a political game in which they care nothing about. They also believe there is fame to be claimed for history books.…
In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, in the bizarre war, including the battlefield, the trenches, and all the lives that were lost during the war. The outlines first point is about how gruesome the battlefield is and how it is like the way it is. It explains in the…
We can all agree that death is not a voyage to those who stand face to face with it. In the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque it describes a German soldier’s punishing physical and mental stress during the First World War, as well as the detachment from civilian life. In addition, returning back to the civilian life after experiencing war is a challenge for soldiers. In All Quiet on the Western Front each of the soldier’s lives are enduringly changed by war, they have to deal with guilt, the questions inquired, and coping with how to live.…
“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure. Death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a beginning generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war”(Remarque). Taking place in World War two, a young man loses everything he held dear to him by becoming a soldier. In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Erich demonstrates how the war can force soldiers to grow up by destroying their identity, youth, and innocence.…
World War I, also known as the Great War, has transformed the lives of millions of people, leading to new innovations, and different forms of government. But along with new innovation, a lot of violence erupted, causing millions of lives to be lost. War is a transformative event for individuals because the deaths caused by war impacts people in a negative way, causing witnesses to have physical and/ or mental disorders, along with a feeling of helplessness and loss of faith in government. The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is an example of the impact war can have on soldiers. It is about Paul Baumer, a soldier in the war, and the reader follows him through his tragic endeavors fighting in the war on the side of…
Marcelo Cedano 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.…