Erich Maria Remarque

I after being captivated by slogans of patriotism and honor. It is narrated by the protagonist, Paul Baumer. They soon realize that the romanticized version of war that was described to them is nothing like the battlefields they encounter. Erich Maria Remarque, the author of the novel, used his personal experience as a German soldier to write All Quiet on the Western Front. He was drafted at a young age, and he fought on the Western Front of World War I, where he witnessed many of the…

Marcelo Cedano Mrs. Jiruska War Stories 10 October 2016 “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” (Herbert Hoover). Although All Quiet on the Western Front and Saving Private both shows brutality of war and rough conditions, the novel shows more compassion it’s more realistic in that the emotion and feeling toward the enemies. In the beginning of Saving Private Ryan the viewer witness the American and ally forces execute Operation Overlord. As the American and ally…

World War I was a conflict that claimed the lives of millions of soldiers and altered the lives of countless others. Shortly after the War, two novels surfaced, Generals Die In Bed by Charles Yale Harrison and All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, that became influential in our understanding of how the soldiers lived. Each novel provides a firsthand account from a soldier’s point of view on one of the most brutal wars ever to have been fought. The novels portray war without…

During times of war opinions are often high. Everyone has their own individual opinion as to the stance on each issue, its cause, and how problem should be resolved. The purpose of this paper is to dress several differing inter war movements that develop during that time. They will be discussed, analyze, compared and contrasted to each other to examine how well they prove their desired point. First we will examine Woodrow Wilson The Idealistic View. Woodrow Wilson The Idealistic View - The…

deep trench and let his feet sink into the Earth, breathing a sigh of relief to have been given just a few more hours of life. Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front was one of the first novels to capture the brutality of modern war through the experiences of German soldier Paul Bäumer and the men in his company. By retelling the events of World War I, Remarque expresses the idea that this war, for many of the younger men like Bäumer, was about more than just another fallen…

There is an ongoing feud as to if censorship is appropriate to incorporate in governments, schools, and other institutions. Governments or other forms of authority engage in censorship in order to protect people from concepts they consider to be corrupt or immoral. Censorship eliminates evil mindsets and can help to prevent major conflicts from arising. On the other hand, censorship slows down creativity and innovation, violates citizens’ rights, and hides the truth. The Nazi Regime incorporated…

benefited me in my understanding as it put me in the correct mindset in a literary sense. The literary research that I did to assist in my understanding of the novel was to research Erich Maria Remarque who wrote All Quiet on The Western Front. This resulted in me receiving some background knowledge on why Remarque had written the novel the way he did, for example, he had served in the Second Regiment, the same as Paul in the book, which once again forced me to analyze the novel even…

because the deaths caused by war impacts people in a negative way, causing witnesses to have physical and/ or mental disorders, along with a feeling of helplessness and loss of faith in government. The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is an example of the impact war can have on soldiers. It is about Paul Baumer, a soldier in the war, and the reader follows him through his tragic endeavors fighting in the war on the side of…

War will take its toll on a soldier. In the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque, the soldiers of Second Company come out of the war damaged in many ways which are almost unpreventable. Their bodies are hurt, their minds are full of fear and they are eventually molded to think that being surrounded death is a normal day to day thing. The soldiers relationships with people and places are destroyed their generation is lost. War leaves them alone and afraid. Some people…

they were not. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the protagonist Paul Bäumer is a German World War I soldier who, in a particular scene, has returned home on break. A red-cross woman recognizes Bäumer in his uniform and gets excited about being able to serve him coffee because she thinks he is a hero. Bäumer, however, knows better, thinking “She calls me ‘Comrade’, but I will have none of it” (Remarque 156). Bäumer knows that he is not the hero the woman thinks…