Maria Licciardi

Greed’s Destructive Nature in The Pearl John Steinbeck expresses a theme about the destructive nature of greed in The Pearl. Plainly stated, the theme is that greed can cause destruction. Steinbeck conveys this theme through Kino’s actions after receiving the pearl and through the other character’s in the story. Steinbeck’s comment about greed’s destructive nature can clearly be seen through Kino’s actions after receiving the pearl. At first, Kino went about praising the pearl, saying it…

The Pearl The Pearl is very unpredictable story it changes around to drama to action and things in this story that want you to keep reading . The Pearl was written by John Steinbeck, a famous american author who wrote The Pearl. The pearl is a novel who talks about a man named Kino who cared and protected his family until he found a pearl and cares about it more and starts to lose his family . What is important to life for kino changes over the courses in the story.As he coaches with internal…

All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque is a war novel that reveals the intense physical and emotional struggles of the real people behind the uniform during the intense fight of World War 1. This story’s main protagonist is a young soldier named Paul. The plot follows him from the time he enters the military to his unfortunate death at the end. The story starts with a joyous high school graduation, then slowly spirals to a dark, emotional, bloody war leading Paul to lose…

All Quiet on the Western Front follows Paul Bäumer, a German high school student, who voluntarily enlists in the army for World War I. Paul and a number of his classmates volunteered after listening to patriotic speeches from their teacher, Kantorek. Paul and his classmates realize the idea of nationalism that moved them to enlist was nothing but a hollow shell. The idea that we should join the military because of nationalism is still relevant today. All Quiet on the Western Front makes…

Death is everywhere, it is in your home and in the streets, it can happen to everyone and anyone, death has no discrimination. Death is a general at war. “All Quiet on the Western Front” embraces the brutality and carnage of war by showing the innocence of young men who are destroyed, the pain they experience, and the suffering theses young men endure. Soldiers are changed the moment they enter the battlefield. In the novel, Paul and his classmates joined the war as soldiers. They are…

In Nazi Germany the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque was banned. Millions of copies were burned and Remarque lost his German citizenship and fled the country. The Nazi party did not agree with anything that went against what the party was about and that was exactly what this book did. The Nazis objected to this because the book told how the soldiers truly felt about war and it told how awful it was on the front lines. As well as, Remarque felt as though the soldiers…

When most people wake up they hope something good will fall upon them, but most don’t think of the burden that might lurk behind the blessing. This statement could be used as the moral for John Steinbeck’s book The Pearl. The Pearl is a story of a fisherman named Kino whom found a pearl beyond price and doesn’t at the moment understand the dangers that might result from it. As mentioned earlier I believe John Steinbeck paints a very noticeable moral. Kino is a family man that wants nothing but…

All Quiet on the Western Front Rewrite We were quiet on the ride into the foreign village, taking in the sights that would be ordinary to anyone else. The thought of simply being somewhere far away from the front was conversation enough. The passengers included myself, Katczinsky, Tjaden, Kropp, Müller, Detering, and a new, young soldier by the name of Arnold Kirchner. Kirchner is 18, but has a boyish face that presents him as no older than 14 and his eyes have had a permanent craven nature…

Comparing All Quiet on the Western Front to Actualities in World War One The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the twenty-eighth of June, 1914, in Bosnia sparked the Great War. Later known as World War One, it was fought between the Allied Powers, Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, and the Central Powers, Germany, Austria-Hungry, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. Many novels and movies have been made featuring this monstrosity. One such novel is the classic All Quiet on the…

“All Quiet on the Western Front” In the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Eric Maria Remarque depicts the psychological changes undergone by the soldiers during World War I. Paul is the protagonist of this novel, and it seems that the harshness of war changed his perspective of life drastically. The exposure of Paul and his friends to all the horrifying pictures of death and brutalities during war ultimately led to the loss of their innocence. With the loss of their innocence came the…