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Lux’s hand and ran. Glancing back, Mx.Lux spotted Blout and Cherry Bomb sprinting to the other exit before the warehouse collapsed. “We should go.” ** Anja began to mumble, half to herself,“I can’t believe it’s been a month.” “A month since what?” Sol asked through a mouthful of cereal, music blaring through their headphones. Anja blinked, glancing between Maria, who had been sitting quietly, and Sol frantically. It was Maria who ended up responding, “A month since I got stuck in an elevator…

All Quiet on the Western Front gives a nineteen-year-old boy's testimony of war. Paul Bäumer enlisted in the German army on the French front in World War I. Entering the army a young German patriot, eager to fight – thanks to his teacher’s stirring speeches –, Bäumer soon realizes he knew nothing about war but clichés. In the company of his schoolmates, he faces the constant physical terror and mental damage of true war and trench warfare. Erich Maria Remarque – born Erich Paul Remarque – was…

Merriam-Webster defines the term motif as a “usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts); especially : a dominant idea or central theme” (“Motif”). In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the author Erich Maria Remarque mentions two principle motifs which are comradeship and lost generation. The novel follows a young solider, Paul Bäumer, and his comrades throughout their journey at the front of World War I. The soldiers experience many horrors throughout their time in the…

The destruction, devastation, and desolation of war illustrate the dangers of conflict. Taken during the new age of photography, Scene Showing Deserted Camp and Wounded Soldier by Matthew Brady allowed numerous Americans to see the Civil War with their own eyes. While no visible conflicts appear in the work, it still illustrates the destructive abilities of war on both the human and nature. In the photo, the rifle next to the injured soldier suggests a recent battle. The broken walls and…

Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is an anti-war novel expressing the views of an average World War I soldier named Paul. Erich Maria Remarque uses an assortment of voice elements to create tone. In the passage on the preceding page, Paul describes his surroundings on the front. The tone of the excerpt is presented to be emotionless and overwhelming. An example of a voice element that has a large role in the tone is diction. Diction is used in the excerpt by the use of the…

then everything went blank; Angel was dazed and her eyeballs rolled back, like her eyes just went white. She was having another…

as well. An example of this was when Paul’s group attacked Himmelstoss or when they mindlessly kill their enemies on the battlefield, something no civilian would have been likely to do if not for the war. As the months go by the battle continues back and fourth. Days on end with lack of food sleep and water means the men are all exhausted, but must go on for their lives and the lives of their comrades depend on it. There is no other option and the mental burden of being killed at any moment by…

Accompanying the great horrors of the war was an extraordinary sense of comradeship that was forged between the soldiers as they went through countless hardships and unimaginable suffering together. Throughout Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul and the men of the Second Company received strength from one another. As the war created a sharp distinction between soldiers and civilians, Paul and his friends only had each other. When all else fail, they could only rely…

are changed physically, mentally, and emotionally. The impact these changes bring upon each man is drastic, this is their new way of life. Once they have experienced what they have, there would be no going back. In the book, Paul Bäumer struggles with the reality of not being able o relate back to his old home because the war had changed him so much. Paul Bäumer was not the only man who would be changed, many of his close friends would be forever changed too. At the start of the war, there was…

fingered the gun on his belt and was low on ammunition. He came to what must've once been a living room. Only the back of the couch was still intact, the rest ripped to shreds and the stuffing decorated the floor. He spotted the boxes in the far corner. He ran to them and quickly emptied their contents into his back back. Once outside again, Minho gathered his bearings and set off back to base. The night was not pure darkness, a full mood shone, reflected the light off his jet black hair.…