Erich Maria Remarque

are described through the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque where he depicts…

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…

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel, and Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s own graphic memoir, Paul Baumer and Marji live in unfavorable environments, permanently shaping their beliefs and identities. During World War I, Paul fights on the Western Front where the war dehumanizes him. Before Baumer serves in the cruel war, he is blinded by the glory he is told he will receive by entering Germany’s army. However, after months of witnessing inhumanely killed…

is a novel written by Erich Maria Remarque about the nature of the First World War using a first person view of the character, Paul Bäumer, from the German army inside the war. Remarque uses language and stylistic features to convey the physical and psychological destructiveness of the war to convey the brutal nature of the warfare that created a lost generation whose innocence was stolen too young and their lives destroyed. A main concept illustrated in the novel by Remarque, is the horror and…

In his World War One novel All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque describes the horrors of life on the front line. The novel focuses on the lives of several twenty year old German boys. Under the false promise of honor and glory, they were persuaded by their schoolmaster Kantorek to join the army. Through the perspective of Paul, one of the boys, readers learn that he believes his generation’s future is hopeless because of the war. Paul and his friends, Albert, Muller, and Leer,…

upturned,fall into a wire cradle. His body collapses, his hands remain suspended as though he was praying. Then his body dropped clean away and only his hands with the stumps of his arms, shot off, now hang in the wire” (Remarque, 112). All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is the story of a young man named Paul and his comrades in World War One. Paul and his comrades suffer through all the horrors of war and are changed by the war and its terrors. In the book, Paul and his…

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, right arm…

Published in 1928, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a noteworthy novel that illustrates the ordeals of Paul Baumer, a young German soldier who is deployed at the Western Front. Paul, who acts as the primary narrator for the novel, precisely elucidates several tragedies that he and his comrades witness as a result of violence inflicted by war. His comrades, which include Kat, Muller, Albert, and Kemmerich, help Paul overcome multiple obstacles such as the horrors of the…

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 born on June 22nd, 1898, in Osnabrück, Westphalia. The third child in a family of four, he was brought up in a strict Catholic household, his family on the lower end of the working class. One of his biggest hobbies…

In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the devastations that result in war are exemplified by the protagonist, Paul Baümer and his comrades. The devastations of war are incredibly prevalent throughout the entire novel. From the death of friends to the desensitization of seeing a corpse or a brutal injury, death is so prominent in his life that Paul has even personified ‘him.’ The tragic effect of war is highlighted through Paul’s irrationality, vulnerability, and…