All Quiet on the Western Front Essay

The earth beneath their feet had long since morphed into oozing, black mud that sucked at their feet and legs. The pounding of artillery shells, the booming of massive guns, the sharp crack of rifles, and the smell of gunpowder were without pause. Blood-splattered bodies were sprawled on the trenches. The screams of agony and the earth-shattering crashes of shells would be enough to drive even the most stalwart to insanity. Corporal James of the 2nd Infantry Brigade ducked his head as a shell…

5th, 1945. The war had just begun. Dust was flying all over the area, making it hard to see for the soldiers. Bombs were flying, no one knew where to go, everyone yelling, stay down, stay under cover. Soldiers losing their friends hoping to get out alive with loved ones worrying at home. Every troop heading out of the war zone, knowing that they left the friends and sometimes loved one gasping for their last breath of cold dusty air. All you could see after the wind had died down was…

Paul Baumer: a Soldier, a Witness; Just a Boy In Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel about the truthful, disturbing reality of war, Paul Baumer, the protagonist, has a very hesitant and rebellious relationship and attitude towards authority that lead to the fading of his mental state. In the beginning, he faces the feelings of betrayal and anger. Those emotions continue to persist, but they “dull-out” over time. The “dulling” becomes “fading” and the…

Life is a coming-of-age story. Whether a person takes life as a human, character or an animal, they all have a history full of their own unique events. The events focus on the four stages of the journey; innocence, initiation, chaos, and resolution. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, the theme masks that of a coming-of-age story. Through the eyes of the reader, his life can be seen as a coming-of age story. Each stage is shown throughout the novel, and appears…

Statement of intent: Written Text essay - Story I am going to write a text analysis essay for the story All Quiet on the Western Front. My chosen essay topic is how you were positioned as a reader to think a certain way about an issue or issues by the creator of the written text. I need to show my understanding of how the main idea of how the reader is positioned to think of the war in a negative way is presented in the story through the use of the theme underlying of the Brutality of War,…

nineteen-year-old student named Paul Baumer. Paul encountered many hardships during his time on the front. Despite these hardships, in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, the author, depicted Paul as a lucky, impartial and brotherly solider. These characteristics aided Paul as he watched others suffer and die while he stood by and chance alone kept him alive. Paul Baumer’s luckiness…

populations a myriad of times. One of these authors, Erich Maria Remarque, details the horror and injustice of war in his novel All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque illustrates how countries were able to convince more men to fight, as well as perpetuate the notion of just war through the use of propaganda, misinformation, and appealing to a sense of nationalism, all of which the main character, Paul, becomes aware of throughout the novel. In the early stages of World War I, countries needed…

extremely animalistic in nature, the people’s generation who fought it was completely wiped out, and people still today can feel repercussions of the war. WWI showed no mercy to those who fought in battle. Erich Maria Remarque showed this in All Quiet in the Western Front when Paul Baumer and his squadron were walking in a forest and then saw people hanging from trees as their “sharp, downy, dead faces have the awful expressionlessness of dead children” (Remarque 130). There was no reservation…

style in the language made this novel stand out across the years and gain fame among the many literary works about war. Remarque’s intelligent work made him an enemy to the Nazis. Remarque speaks the truth and the harsh realities of wars. All Quiet on the Western Front “would then become the account of the First World War, an absolute and total account” (Tighe 52). Paul narrates the story to us except the very last few lines is told by an unnamed narrator who finishes up the…

In chapter nine of All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque uses diction and imagery to establish the theme that the people who are thought to be one’s enemies in war can actually turn out to share some similar qualities with one another. After Paul stabs the soldier who unexpectedly enters the shell hole Paul is in, he instantly regrets the action he has performed. As he watches the man’s life slowly fade away, Paul speaks to the nearly lifeless body and says, “If we threw away these rifles and…