Erich Maria Remarque

Enrich Maria Remarque’s book ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ features Paul Bäumer, a 20-year old German soldier who represents a whole generation of men that history refers to as the ‘Lost Generation.’ Through his character, the author tells a story of men who were destroyed by what is referred to as ‘The Great War.’ For instance, in chapter 2, Paul attempts to describe the difference between his generation and that of the older soldiers and notes that the older soldiers had a life before the…

In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, the most prominent symbol are Kemmerich’s boots. The boots symbolize more than one aspect in the novel, which develops into major theme. The footwear can symbolize death, the sacrifice of emotions during war, and cheapness of life in the battlefield. Once the soldier Kemmerich dies, his boots are taken and worn by Müller, then worn by Paul, the protagonist of the story. Müller’s time with the boots were short and dies painfully.…

This poem dramatizes the conflict between a young man in the military and the ever approaching abyss of death. The speaker talks about a man named Arthur who died in combat. He argues that America is symbolized as all those who have died fighting for the country. The poem is most likely told from the point of view of a man who served in the military, and whose friend was brought back from combat in a coffin. Knowing that the author, John Ciardi, was a gunner in the U.S. Army Air Forces during…

According to HG Wells, “If we don't end war, war will end us” (Things to Come). In A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, the main character Gene struggles with the wars around him. Gene struggles at Devon, an all boys preparatory school during the World War II era. At Devon, Gene faces the struggle of finding peace and many conflicts throughout the story along with the other boys, Brinker Hadley a natural born leader, Phineas his sporty best friend, and Quackenbush a dislikeable crew team captain.…

Erich Maria Remarque’s war novel, ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ features a character who appears to have a great vulnerability about them. The main character, a German soldier by the name of Paul Bäumer, uses a very strong survival instinct as a measure to stay alive during the Great War but seems to lose this after going on leave to visit his family. The novel follows Paul and the rest of the Second Company as they go from their barracks, to the Front line for the very first time and the…

The first main instance is in chapter 6. In Chapter 6, Paul and a few others comes across a few soldiers whose noses are cut off by the enemy’s and eyes poked out with bayonets. Their mouths and even their noses are stuffed with some sawdust so they suffocate to death (if not already dead). This constant view of death that causes the soldiers to fight back like insensible animals. They used spades to butcher the enemy faces and jab bayonets into the backs of enemy’s who was too slow to get away…

The novel, A Separate Peace, deals primarily with the internal conflicts of the protagonist Gene and the resulting external conflicts. John Knowles, the author, makes use of the extended metaphor of war to demonstrate the extent of Gene’s internal conflict. Additionally, by setting the novel in the midst of World War II the author furthers the comparison between what Gene was feeling and the actual war going on. However, Gene admits at the end of the novel that “[his] war ended before [he] ever…

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…

In Walter Buchignani’s “Tell No One Who You Are”, the main character Regine Miller is put face to face with the consequences of war. In this book the main character experiences lots of individual vs self conflicts.In Walter Buchignani’s “Tell No One Who You Are”, the main character Regine Miller is put face to face with the consequences of war. In this book the main character experiences lots of individual vs self. After Regine’s brother is sent away, her parents fear she might be next so they…

All Quiet on the Western Front The book stars Paul Bäumer, a young German gentleman who enlists, with his friends, to fight in World War I. After ten weeks of military training at the hands of Corporal Himmelstoss Paul’s outlook on the war completely changes. He believed, at the time of enlisting, that he was enlisting for noble reasons ones of patriotism and nationalism, then the Corporal shows him the ugly side of the war, the brutality. Their lives become constant fear. After a short break…