All Quiet Remarque Analysis

Remarque also use personification in several occasions to make things animate like human beings. Paul says: “The glow of the fire lights up our faces, shadows dance on the wall. Sometimes a heavy crash and the lean-to shivers” (Remarque 94). A beautiful imagery surfaces in several scenes in the novel. In another instance Remarque describes the front as an animal cage when he says: “The front is a cage in which we must await fearfully whatever may happen” (101). In addition, Remarque uses euphemism when Tjaden was upset and Paul comments by saying: “At the same time he ventilates his backside” (83). Remarque tends to favor repetition in more than one occasion when Paul says “words, words, words—they do not reach me” (173) or when he also says: “earth!— earth!—earth!” (55). The use of slang is also something peculiar in the language. Remarque says a rhythmic, lyrical doggerel, almost colloquial in one occasion when Katczinsky says: “Give ‘em all the same grub and all the same pay – And the war would be over and done in a day” (41). In another instance Paul says: “Kat has lost all his fun since we have been here, which is bad, for Kat is an old front-hog, and can smell what is …show more content…
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