AQWF Chapter one Analysis In the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Paul Bäumer says ¨We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? . . . We are old folk.¨ (18). Youth is able to be interpreted many different ways; it can be related to age, but it can also be related to the qualities of a person(or any noun for that matter). Even if a person is not young they can have a youthful mind, soul or body. However, the opposite is true as well. Aged minds, souls, or…
Germany flourished on the nationalism in the early 1900’s of its people, ready to encounter an attack at any moment and any time. People forget the decision of war until they are in the flame of its fire. In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque explains his war experience in World War 1 through a character, Paul Bumer—a kind and sensitive man. While in school, he used to write poems. Paul’s teacher brainwashed him and other students. He convinced them, by the idea of…
If a literary counterpart to Guernica exists, it is Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front, it portrays the toll of human suffering in World War I, a conflict that ushered in modern weapons of mass destruction, such as tanks and poison gas. However, many tales focus on the glory of the war, such as the epic Beowulf, rather than the devastation. With the help of luck, both Paul and Beowulf conquer opponents that mirror themselves. Despite similar victories, only Beowulf is…
In the First World War soldiers had experiences with both good and bad leaders. In the book All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque explores the idea that leaders can be competent and kind or clueless and bitter. In this novel, Paul Bäumer deals with many different leaders which he has both positive and negative feelings towards. As the story progresses, Paul begins to realize that there are both good and bad leaders, and he gives them respect only if he feels that they truly…
not settle anything like the Treaty of Versailles was meant to do. While World War I concluding with the whole world putting Germany at fault and the economic downfall due to the Treaty of Versailles set up the stage up for World War II, All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque depicts truly how war also affects men, the traumatic events soldiers had to face, changes men negatively and leaves many with mental disorders. While many think that death is the immediate impact on…
All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Remarque, and A Long Way Gone, written by Ishmael Beah, are both stories telling one of many otherwise overlooked tragedies of war. Those who are not forced to fight never see the true horror of the war. Many think of war as something heroic and honorable, and focus on the idea that it is bringing justice and fighting for one’s country. They only see the patriotism fighting. However, people lack the understanding of the horrors that war brings.…
perseverance in his writing of All Quiet on the Western Front. Broome says, “Consider for a moment the perseverance of the author Dr. Suess. His first children's book was rejected by twenty-three publishers.” Dr. Suess would rank high among the most well known children’s authors of the past century. Ironically, he had to persevere and finally stumble upon that one publisher that would provide him the opportunity to achieve literary popularity. According to All Quiet on the…
hero is all a matter of perspective. During the rise of Hitler many Germans saw him as a savior who was going to get Germany out of a depression. Many people may also see America as tyrannical ruler that can’t be contained. Perspective can also be describe as psychology. Psychology is the study of of human behavior and describes why we act the way we do. Many times the human brain can become damaged without a person even realizing that it has happened. In Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the…
quickly without the needed training, but the ones that survived were no longer the same men that entered the war. They too, in some ways, died. They were, “insensible, dead men, who through some trick…are still able to run and kill” (Remarque 116). All they knew anymore was to survive; it did…
In Why War?—a series of correspondence between him and Albert Einstein—Sigmund Freud argues that war is solution for the societal elite to accomplish their goals without getting directly involved in conflict. Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front echoes the sentiments and ideas expressed by Sigmund Freud. Freud states that war is an inevitable process towards the progression of society at the cost of individuality, and his sentiments can be seen through Remarque’s portrayal of…