All Quiet on the Western Front Essay

of War in Literature When authors write, they typically create literature about experiences they have had; or they may write characters whom they associate themselves with. The practice of doing this is extremely evident in the stories All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. Both men have experience in which they write these novels from. From the age of eighteen Remarque was conscripted into the German Army to fight in World War I,…

In All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque shows a prime example of the German side of world war one. Remarque shows his views through the character Paul Bäumer who is a German soldier who is assigned at the front line. In All quiet in the western front the life in the trenches are unbearable, Paul’s life made a complete turnaround, and the influential people in his squad are the reason he stayed alive as long as he did. World War one which started in July of 1994 lasted four years ending in…

Bulgarian or from the Ottoman Empire. They all had the same experiences while at war. There were differences depending where they were placed, but the fundamental characteristics were the same. There were a total of 17 million dead and 20 million wounded; the survivors were left to live with the effects of being dehumanized because of all the death they saw. Within three great works about WWI, “Suicide in the Trenches” by Siegfried Sassoon, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque…

In the novels A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque the different possibilities of the effects war have on an individual are displayed distinctively. In A Farewell to Arms Henry realizes he is losing himself in the war and tries to find an escape through love. In All Quiet on the Western Front the way Paul views himself changes and puts a perspective not only on the present but on his past and his future too. In these two novels the…

In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Katczinsky seems to be the leader of the pack. He is older, mature, and strong. However, he internally struggles when he does not receive the amount of food he believes all of the men deserve. He gets angry when the sergeant-cook refuses to give the mean more food. He continues to give demands to the cook, “Why won’t that do, you old carrot?” (5). The sergeant-cook discusses how he is only allowed to ration food for eighty men, but Katczinsky…

In Chapters 15 through 17 we learn more about how the countries of Europe modernize and sometimes do not modernize. However, no matter what country you look at in Europe at this time everyone has discontents with their country. This is the beginning of the ideas of revolution and rebelling against one 's country to take control over what the people want them to be and not what their leaders and monarchs want them to be. In Prussia, we were beginning to see how uneducated our people were. We…

There are two main characters. The first being Marie-Laure, a blind French girl who lives with her father in Paris. Marie-Laure was not always blind, congenial cataracts caused her vision to deteriorate at a very young age. She has an amazing memory. She is able to navigate her whole city from memorizing it with the help of her father. As demonstrated in this line: “Marie-Laure draws maps in her head, unreels a hundred yards of imaginary twine, and then reels it back in.” (pg.44). Through the…

Yury’s perspective after he is abducted by the forest army to provide context into the military dynamics in the midst of the civil war. This part of the novel humanizes soldiers on both sides of the war by exploring various characters on the Siberian front. The beginning of the chapter takes place the Vozdvizhensky Monastery during the “Holy Week” establishing a timeline of events based around the holidays of Russian Orthodoxy. While the monastery is now an abandoned ruin, the men of the village…

Twelve years ago August 11 2017 the war was started when Haden and his army to attempt to over throw the king of the world and my father. So they corrupted GANC and started making war machines to kill King Rod. We barely made it but Haden will be back. He going to try to kill the rest of us and take over and we might not able to stop him, but so help me god I will kill Haden and free the world from his destructive ways. The GANC will get to helping the world function correctly. We don’t have a…

Introduction The book starts off During the Civil War, a Union regiment rests along a riverbank, they had been there for a while just waiting for something to happen. A tall soldier named Jim Conklin starts telling people that the enemy is going to March and attack soon. Henry Fleming, a recent recruit with this 304th Regiment, worries the he will get injured and is scared and doesn’t think he has the courage to go into battle and fight against an army of guys trying to kill him. He fears that…