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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…

Erich Maria Remarque's novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, reflects life within death, propaganda's lie, and how Erich's life is similar to Paul's. Paul is the protagonist in All Quiet on the Western Front and he endures the most horrid war our nation had ever gone through, World War I. It was the war of wars, it is the cause of World War II and it was a battle for life throughout the miles upon miles of trenches. Paul's view of World War I is similar to Remarque's because the author's…

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…

All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, takes place on the Western Front of World War I. The narrator and main character of the book is Paul Baumer, a nineteen-year-old boy who fights for the German forces. The book follows the lives of Paul and his fellow schoolmates who have all enlisted in the German forces with the encouragement of their schoolmaster, Kantorek. Throughout the book, we follow their lives and deaths and everything in-between. We are introduced to the horrors…

generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war”(Remarque). Taking place in World War two, a young man loses everything he held dear to him by becoming a soldier. In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Erich demonstrates how the war can force soldiers to grow up by destroying their identity, youth, and innocence. In order to be a good soldier, a person must become like everyone else. Remarque writes about how Paul and his…

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…

Christopher Gage Mrs. Trimble 10-3 English Language Arts 20F 15 November 2016 Abusive Leaders In the First World War many of the soldiers encountered leaders that abused their powers in negative ways. In the novel All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, many of the soldiers have bad experiences with higher ranking leaders. Paul Baumer, Stanislaus Katczinsky, Leer, and many other soldiers had to do questionable things because their leaders told them to. Through leaders like…

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…

Back in 1914 when WW1 took place, Germany was running out men and sent untrained young kids to the battle field. The book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque displays a group of young boys sent into war. What makes Remarque’s book so compelling is because it exhibits a dazzling loss of innocence in the characters of the book. As we read through the book we realize that the main character name is Paul Baumer and one of his only reason that he and his classmates enlisted to…