All Quiet on the Western Front Essay

Along the Hungarian- Serbian border, hundreds of migrants and refugees fled from a temporary camp due to frustration with authorities. The camp, in Roszke, Hungary, contained hundreds of people waiting for buses to transport them, many of whom had waited overnight in the cold to move toward the border near Austria and Budapest. However, only one bus arrived, which created a huge commotion among the migrants, who were then well aware that there were no more buses coming. One Syrian man stated,…

position in war because of his family wealth, “Ashley Crowther knew these things because he was an officer”, in comparison to Jim who was a frontline soldier. Jim uses his passion for nature as an escape from the trauma of war, “But more reassuring then all this… private reassurance for himself… was the presence…

In a world where young men across the country are being thrust into battle, comradeship is becoming ever more prominent. Without even knowing it many of these new soldiers are creating bonds that could just save their lives. Paul, Kropp, Tjaden, Kat, Detering, Muller, Leer, and Haie become inseparable, learning about life, war, and life in war as well as the thin line in between, on their perilous journey. Kat, a veteran, and Paul, a new recruit, are both fighting for the same cause. They live,…

The long, peculiar note of a bugle sounded, borne to us on the raw morning air to interrupt our conversation. It rose with a low, clear, warble, and seemed to float in the gray sky like the note of a lark. As it died away, I perceived that the atmosphere had changed; despite the equilibrium established by the storm, it was dynamic. The men thrust forward their heads, expanded their eyes and clenched their teeth. They breathed arduously, as though strangled by yanking at the leash. “Hoof it.” The…

To enter, you have to pass a row of ambulances that are lined up in the front. The automatic door, that is wide enough to fit a car, opens to welcome its guests with a perfumed scent. Many guests attend with their families and some guests even attend with literal broken hearts, in an attempt to repair them. Walking through the corridors, you start to feel a headache from the lights above you that make the corridor too bright for your eyes. The corridor, filled with stale air, has an undertone…

wasn’t much moving room without being doomed. When the shots finally start to die down I make a run for the trench behind the front lines. As I do, bursts of fire start to shine as artillery is being struck like lightning striking the ground. It shakes me like an earthquake. I turn just in time to see the giant monstrous cannons that are raining upon us like hell on earth. All of a sudden I get pulled backwards into the trench just in time to avoid the incoming mortar shell that hit the ground…

The old man sat alone in his tin hut, staring at the hard dirt floor beneath his feet. It was all he had known for the past few years, ever since he became a Rat of Tobruk. He thought back to that fateful day when he joined the Australian Army, full of youthful enthusiasm and patriotism. But now, as he sat in his worn out uniform, his body ravaged by the years of war, he wondered if it had all been worth it. He had fought in the deserts of North Africa, enduring scorching heat and constant…

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque is a story about the lives of a young group of German soldiers who fight on the French front during World War One. The book is narrated by a young man named Paul Baumer. Paul and several of his friends enlist into the army right out of high school due to the moving patriotic speeches by their schoolmaster. However, at the front lines they learn that war is nothing like they anticipated. Through the viewpoints of these characters Remarque very…

Krebs in Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldiers Home” and Paul in “All Quiet on the Western Front” Both showcase the perspective on the outlook of World War 1 and how they show that both characters had similar approaches on how to deal with life outside of war. Although they both had similar gist’s on the topic of World war 1, they left a different impression on soldier’s, as a whole, and how they believed war effected the life of them and what they call their “home”. Mutually, Paul Baumer and Krebs…

All Quiet on the Western Front focuses on a generation of bright young men, who for a while survived the war physically, but were destroyed psychologically due to the extreme conditions they were forced to live in. Although soldiers and war are portrayed as glorious and heroic by many different sources in those times, war was infact a vicious and horrific time where innocent lives are lost and destroyed. A whole generation lost their lives without anyone stopping to mourn or remember them, but…