All Quiet on the Western Front Essay

Across Five Aprils – A Book Response There are very few fiction books I enjoy reading; I like to read history books, especially ones that relate to WWII. However, Irene Hunt’s Across Five Aprils is a fictional book based on the American Civil War that I thoroughly enjoyed reading. The book takes the reader on a five year journey of the Creighton family and how they had to come to terms with the impact and effects of a war-torn family. Across Five Aprils tells the story of a young boy named…

Soldiers that fought in the trenches had to face the constant fear of death and pain. They became very aware of their own mortality as they faced disease and bullets. Artillery and machine gun fire and barbed wire tore through their friends’ bodies and laid waste to beautiful landscapes. It would have been very easy to despair and feel as though the world around them were being destroyed. However, one soldier was able to find hope and encouragement, even when surrounded by this world of human…

Thousands of people join our military and risk their lives to fight for their country. After many years of fighting in war soldiers are no longer who they used to be. When they return home they are looked at, treated badly, and are not given the treatment needed to recover. The struggles and obstacles these veterans face on their journey home and once they arrive forever face. In the epic poem, Odyssey by Homer, it shows the obstacles a soldier has to face on their journey. Odysseus and his men…

The Second World War also continued the First World War tradition of documenting the western theatres in landscapes. By the early 1920s, a new group of Canadian painters emerged with the aim to help establish a Canadian identity in art. These seven artists, known as the Group of Seven, traveled around central and northern Ontario to paint landscapes with broad sweeping brushstrokes, which ultimately become their signature style. From 1920 until 1931, their Canadian landscapes were held in eight…

“To Leper it revealed what all of us were seeking: a recognizable and friendly face to the war’” (124). For every character, the war had an intimidating presence that they would all come face to face with eventually. Gene says friendly face to tell Leper’s new view of it, like how people in their everyday lives try to make the most out of a horrible situation…

that all of them are traumatized over. Joby is scared the most because he is the youngest and he cannot defend himself like the soldiers. He feels very insignificant. He only has a drum and drumsticks and they have guns. The General talks to Joby and convinces him that he is important and make himself feel good to have him go into the war. In ¨An episode of war¨,written by Stephen Crane is about a lieutenant. He is also at a military camp with his soldiers. He is serving them beverages and all…

self-identity. The horrifying experiences Remarque endured shattered his life; and because he went straight into the war after graduating high school, he had no past life to return back home to (Yearley 2136). Remarque felt as if though writing All Quiet would soothe away all they pain World War I left on him. The purpose of Remarque witting this novel was to help pay tribute to a generation of men who were mentally and physically destroyed by the war (Luckert 1227-1228). The main character,…

Berlin. Through the war, his first day in Vietnam Paul had fearful moments, but the most thing that affected him was the death of the soldier Billy Boy Watkins who lost his leg and ultimately dying from a heart attack. This event affects Paul throughout all the story. Throughout the text the story shows the realities of war through what kind of people joined the war, how they deal with fear, and the effects it has on their actions. There was many people who joined the war, some of them were…

you see many themes but the most prevalent ones are brotherhood, loyalty, heroism, teamwork and hope. Out of all the 5 major themes the one you see almost everywhere throughout the entire book is hope. For example, throughout the first half of the book the airmen are praying and hoping for some sort of miracle and then they get word that the U.S air force is planning a rescue mission for all of them and they actually make contact with them, it really comforted them and excited them. (Freeman…

to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent”. Gandhi suggests that trying to achieve something through means of violence will always cause permanent damage that belittles the positive effects. In history and in All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel following the life of a soldier by Erich Maria Remarque, the leaders and soldiers during World War One did not consider Gandhi’s warnings; they fought for the temporary good they believed in while oblivious to the evil…