Chapter 1 - Pick Up Lines and Open(ing) Seduction Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front begins the chapter with Paul Baumer and his classmates replenishing themselves with dietary needs. According to Foster’s How to Read Novels Like a Professor, “...first sentence...It establishes the main family of the novel…” (24). With that in mind, Remarque has already implied that the time frame should be around a place of war: “We are at rest five miles behind the front” (1). Remarque starts to embed the struggle between the boys and the the war place. Bases off of the first page, Remarque had implied the war corruption of society. Eventually, readers are able to conclude that it is World War I. Readers energetically grasp on Remarque’s style from the first page. Foster had mentioned how the first page is like looking at the front cover of a book. From many
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Although Huck is not able to comprehend what other characters are thinking, he do know how to get away with his conflicts. Huck starts off with being a typical young trouble making child who loves to go on wild adventures. Foster also emphasizes how “the child narrator observes but can’t always comprehend” (59) because young characters are often new to the real world, but eventually it becomes clearer at the end. He hoax his death at the beginning of the plot, and lying is his primary weapon. Some of Huck’s lies, however, are beneficial such as when Huck save Jim’s life: “Say, boy, what 's the matter with your father....it ain 't nothing...honest” (87). The need for Huck to lie helps get what he wants such as lying that he’s “Mary Williams” in order to get valuable information. Unreliable narrators are usually inexperienced like Huck at the start of the story, but encouraging him to mature and finding their own identity. At the end of the book, Huck changes from lying carelessly to lying in a much more responsible
Although Huck is not able to comprehend what other characters are thinking, he do know how to get away with his conflicts. Huck starts off with being a typical young trouble making child who loves to go on wild adventures. Foster also emphasizes how “the child narrator observes but can’t always comprehend” (59) because young characters are often new to the real world, but eventually it becomes clearer at the end. He hoax his death at the beginning of the plot, and lying is his primary weapon. Some of Huck’s lies, however, are beneficial such as when Huck save Jim’s life: “Say, boy, what 's the matter with your father....it ain 't nothing...honest” (87). The need for Huck to lie helps get what he wants such as lying that he’s “Mary Williams” in order to get valuable information. Unreliable narrators are usually inexperienced like Huck at the start of the story, but encouraging him to mature and finding their own identity. At the end of the book, Huck changes from lying carelessly to lying in a much more responsible