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    Yunus Amer 250743122 History 1403E All Quiet on the Western Front: Review Erich Maria Remarque was a German born author who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front. Erich was born in Osnabruck, Germany on June 22, 1898. His novel was published on January 29, 1929. Erich fought for the German side during World War 1, he joined the army at the age of 18 in 1917. He fought on the Western Front in the 2nd company, reserves. A month after he joined the war, Erich was wounded by shrapnel in the left leg…

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    All Quiet On the Western Front In the book All Quiet On the Western front which is set behind the German Front Lines During World War l. We hear a story of six young soldiers who all went to school together and volunteered to fight in the great war due to nationalism and the thought of heroism of fighting for Germany their homeland. We are told the horrors of fighting in trench warfare on the western front and how it is to live their day by day. All Quiet On the Western Front shows the true…

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    Theme comparison essay between All Quiet on the Western Front and Dulce Et Decorum Est The book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, and the poems Dulce Et Decorum Est and Suicide in the Trenches are similar because they include some of the same themes like horrors of war and camaraderie. In the book these two themes are used multiple times and in the two poems they are used as well In Dulce Et Decorum Est it showed horrors of war when Wilfred Owen writes “Many had lost their…

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    All Quiet on the Western Front demonstrates these repulsive experiences. “... How long has it been? Weeks- Months- Years? Only days. we see the time pass in the colourless faces of the dying, we cram food into us, we run, we shoot, we kill…” (All Quiet on the Western Front). The soldiers have gone through a bombardment. The things the soldiers experience during the war is not worth the…

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    consistently. The absolute most well-known war motion pictures, for example, Pearl Harbor, Saving Private Ryan, and The Patriot are all extraordinary war motion pictures. Then again, these motion pictures romanticized what war was similar to. While in this novel, it portrays how a war was really experienced. With 126,000 setbacks of the United States alone, All Quiet on the Western Front replaces that sentimental and chivalry of these different books with the fierce…

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    The poems and the excerpt from All Quiet on the Western Front reflect the horrible impact that the atrocious conditions of trench warfare had on the men who were fighting it. They all show that through the starvation, dysentery, fatigue, utilization of industrialized weaponry, and loss of life with no territorial gain, the people were finding it harder and harder to continue fighting, both mentally and physically. The leaders of armies at first used combatant war tactics, but this only resulted…

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    affect the course of action, is explored heavily in Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet On The Western Front through the central character, Paul Baümer, and how his outward view of his state during his time on the western front in World War I affected the course of his story. There are parts of his story in which Paul is hopeful for the future, and sees an end to his current bad situation, but there are also parts in which all he sees in his future is seemingly inexorable suffering and then death.…

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    the same as the people who have gone to war and experience what it is like. The book All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The movie War Horse by Michael Morpurgo, the poem “War is Kind” by Stephen crane, The research article Long-Term Course of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the article Consequences for the US Military all have the same theme. The book All Quiet On The Western Front shows many examples of when outsiders don't…

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    army, and afterwards Paul realizes that Kantorek was only doing what he believed to be was the 'right thing' for the reason that it held no real consequence. The ones fighting in the war alongside Paul are the real heroes, not Kantorek. All Quiet on the Western Front shows traditional authority in a different light; that oftentimes those that receive praise for their actions are undeserving of it. While Kantorek is not a traditional villain, he is certainly passively evil. Many aspiring teenage…

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    All Quiet On The Western Front In the novel, All Quiet On The Western Front, by Erich Remarque is about a soldier’s experience in World War One. Basically it is about Paul and his group of friends that go through World War one and write about how they felt and all the events that happened during that time. Though there was a lot of themes that popped up in this novel, I am going to tell you about the Lost Generation caused by World War One. Lost Generation played a big theme in this novel. It…

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