Pullin' Me Back

out to the trail, do the hike, and get back, all before it became too hot. There was an accident on the road and I had to go about twenty minutes out of my way in order to reach the highway. After forty minutes on the road I reached the trail I wanted to hike only to find out it had been closed. It was about five in the morning at this point and I decided to go to a different trail about a half hour away so I would be able to still hike before heading back home. I wish I had…

Just imagine yourself being in World War I and experiencing the horrors that war makes you go through. In the beginning, you are a happy, normal soldier and at the end, you become damaged and traumatized. This is what Paul Baumer had to go through in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. Paul Baumer was your average nineteen-year-old who enjoyed the little things in life. His life changed when he was sent to the trenches to go fight in World War I. When Paul was going to the…

tragic effect of war is highlighted through Paul’s irrationality, vulnerability, and insanity when he states, “But the shelling is stronger than everything. It wipes out the sensibilities, I merely crawl still deeper in the coffin, it should protect me, and especially as Death himself lies in it too” (4.88, Remarque). At this point in the story, Paul has become incredibly close to the complete acceptance of death, or the idea that he will die in this war.…

the house. That’s where it was. No survivors. But he had to go in. She was his world. She went in. She hadn’t come back. Swallowing his fear, he turned the knob… ______________________________________________________________ Sam watched as his parents were taken away. “Where are they going,” his sister, Savannah , asked. “They’re going on vacation,” Sam replied. “Will they come back?” Sam paused, wondering if they would. After that incident at the house, he didn't think they could. Finally,…

‘I will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war’. Throughout the story, the reader realizes that the generation has come through an event that limits their chance to go back to their old life. In the beginning of the novel Paul describes the difference between his generation and that of his parents. They had a life before the war where they felt comfortable and secure, but Paul’s generation will never have that life.…

All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front has an overriding theme of the intense brutality of World War 1. The novel depicts the harsh reality of the war, focusing on the cruel deaths and senseless suffering of those who were caught up in it. The novel illustrates an anti-war mindset as it showcases the issues about the brutality of war, the change of attitude of the narrator, Paul Bäumer, and erraticness of the war and death of comrades. The anti-war theme is seen in…

In chapter six of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, he develops the idea of disillusionment, an example of this is when Paul gives the description of the shelled school house, “stacked up against the longer side is a high double wall of yellow unpolished brand new coffins” (99) of all the soldiers who will die at the front which could end up being Paul and his comrades. Tjaden says this due to the fact that he knows, an abundance of the soldiers are going to die at the…

are fractures of the right 6th, 7th and 8th ribs, where he still has pain with respiration. Since the injury, he has experienced significant pain in the left knee, headaches, dizziness, insomnia, spine pain and right shoulder pain. Back pain is mostly on the right low back radiating to the anterior thigh and knee. The pain gets better with lying on the left side with the right knee bent. Prolonged sitting and leaning…

Remarque introduced Paul Bäumer as a nineteen-year-old soldier in the German army during World War I. Paul is the narrator of All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as the protagonist and peacekeeper throughout the plot. Many of the other characters in the book are presented as being more intelligent or more ignorant than others, but through his actions Paul can be seen as the optimistic, sensitive and detached soldier of the group.Paul acts as kind good man who tries to do the right thing and…

Paul never feels as though he actually belongs when he is home on leave. He is unable to speak of life on the front because it would bring back too many painful memories. Civilians want to hear about the wonders of the war when there really are none. Leave time illustrates how difficult life will be after the war, especially those like Paul who were brought into the war at a young age. They…