All Quiet on the Western Front Essay

74 THE R.CA.F. OVERSEAS R. Reesor were scrambled and directed to two FWs. flying due south of Shoreham at 24,000 feet. Morrison closed in and riddled one with repeated bursts. The FW. flew steadily on its course in a gentle glide and crossed the French coast at 2,000 feet. The Spitfire pilot, flying close alongside, could see the German airman slumped over his controls, apparently dead: the aircraft had become a flying coffin carrying the body of its pilot back to France. Meanwhile Reesor had…

punishment in a roll call. This one particular roll call will always haunt Tomasz. Roll call began just like all the rest with everyone in camp making a mad scramble to take a place in line otherwise a beating would for sure be guaranteed. Tomasz quickly makes his way to his designated spot: the third line from the front and one-third of the way in the back. He feels safer not being in the front and not being in the back. Not that he isn’t accessible for the guards to beat or shoot him but it…

fully real. Their hands brushed together for a second before Steve abruptly pulled away, worried someone would see them. He wished things were different between the two boys. He wished he had enough courage to hold Bucky’s hand anywhere else but in front of the warm fire in Bucky’s house and he wished no one would glance at them whenever they walked too close together down the street. He wished they lived in a world where people didn’t kill people and Bucky didn’t have to leave to kill people…

that whispers to be at times where there is not even any battle going on. It also is the sound that keeps me up at night, every night, and every week. This is not a pleasant experience at all, I can not believe the conditions of this place, and do not even get me started on the rats that run around your feet all day! Anyways, I just wanted to fill you guys in on what has been going on, and that I am…

yourself being in World War I and experiencing the horrors that war makes you go through. In the beginning, you are a happy, normal soldier and at the end, you become damaged and traumatized. This is what Paul Baumer had to go through in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. Paul Baumer was your average nineteen-year-old who enjoyed the little things in life. His life changed when he was sent to the trenches to go fight in World War I. When Paul was going to the trenches to go…

In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, all of the young soldiers feel hopelessness fighting a gruesome war on the front lines and being away from their families for so long. Living in a world without hope would be absolutely devastating. There are many instances where Paul feels hopelessness throughout Chapter 9. For example, “I curse and grind my teeth in the mud; it is a raving frenzy; in the end all I can do it groan and pray.” (215) In this instance, Paul is hopeless about what to do…

and librarian before he pursued his love for writing full time. As an author, he would write and published several successful books but one novel stands above them all. Following the experiences of a German soldier during World War 1, his novel All Quiet on the Western Front would be published in 1929. All Quiet on the Western Front follows the narration of a young…

alive in Auschwitz. Otto Frank experienced survival in World War 1. It says in the Anne frank website he went into the German Army. His mom, sister, and his brother all were in the war too.. He and his brother fought. His mom and his sister worked at a field hospital in Germany. Otto was sent to the Western Front. The Western Front was known for the worst fighting. It says in the Anne Frank…

Herbert Hoover once said, “Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die” (War Quotes). Erich Remarque, the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, wrote the novel to show parts of war that one can only understand with a similar struggle, including the cowardice of the older generation, the horrors of war, and the effects war has on the soldiers. War is hard to understand by those who have not experienced it. “Yet paradoxically, we are greater removed from the fighting now…

fueled Europe’s first total war. However, the motive of fighting for one’s country soon diminished and left the soldiers with nothing more than a sense of hopelessness, thereby exhausting their mental well-being. In Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, the trauma soldiers experienced were mainly due to the realization of the war’s lack of purpose, dread from anticipating life after war, and confusion in identity caused by the disconnection with family, friends, and interests.…