Rainer Maria Rilke

In The Pearl, John Steinbeck writes about a man named Kino, who lives in La Paz, Mexico. Kino finds a great pearl that he decides to sell in order that he will be able to pay for a life of luxury for his wife Juana and son, Coyotito. He runs into trouble when the greed of people is brought out. His wife, Juana, forwarns Kino that the pearl is evil. Kino does not listen and goes ahead with his plan to bring his family to the capitol to sell the pearl. Juana tries to throw the pearl in the ocean…

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…

The well-crafted novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck is an amazing parable colored with vivid descriptions, specific wording, and great character growth. Kino, one of said characters, is a pearl diver, father, and husband, and is often portrayed as the absolutely normal man who lives an absolutely normal life. Little does he know that a grave amount of bad luck comes with what he believes is a great fortune. Kino’s greed for the “Pearl of the World”(Steinbeck 50) blinds him from his benevolent…

All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, paints war in a realistic, brutal manner as opposed to romancing war. As narrated by the young German soldier, Paul Bäumer, the novel portrays how the atrocities of World War I transform an idealistic, nationalistic, young nineteen-year-old into a lost soul who is unable to envision a life outside of the war. Born in Germany in 1898, Remarque himself served in the war and spent time on the Western Front until severely injured in 1917. He…

The Common Theme Of Tragedy All soldiers endure traumatic experiences that have a similar effect on them for the rest of their lives. The themes of horrors of war and how the young soldiers lives are changed for the worse are both prevalent in both Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and Sassoon’s “Suicide in the Trenches.” The soldiers lost their youth while away in the trenches. While both Remarque and Sassoon exemplify the horrors of war and the theme of the lost generation, Sassoon…

The Pearl was written by John Steinbeck in 1947. This type of book is known as a novella. This means that it is a short novel or a long short story. The genre is parable or allegory. These are stories that usually have a hidden moral or political meaning within them. The book sets place in a small village in La Paz. La Paz is on the Coast of The Baja Peninsula. John Steinbeck was inspired to write The Pearl after visiting La Paz. Here, pearls from the sea are valued more highly than…

Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is a chilling story about the drastic hardships and brutality of war. The novel follows the narration of a young solider, Paul Bäumer, through his experiences as a German soldier throughout the First World War. Paul is introduced along with his fellow soldiers. The reader is soon introduced to Paul’s first personal loss of Kemmerich. Following the first bombardment, the young soldiers realize the true nature of war and the atrocity that it is…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that human pride causes human pain. Whether this is the pain of soldiers in vain battle, the pain of individuals isolated by social statuses and social demands, or the pain of young boys in shallow, barren graves, pride causes it by blinding us to the humanity of others and convincing us to accept their pain and our own pain in the pursuit of avarice. The breadth of pride 's effect on humanity is apparent in its thematic presence throughout literature. In…

Enrich Maria Remarque’s book ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ features Paul Bäumer, a 20-year old German soldier who represents a whole generation of men that history refers to as the ‘Lost Generation.’ Through his character, the author tells a story of men who were destroyed by what is referred to as ‘The Great War.’ For instance, in chapter 2, Paul attempts to describe the difference between his generation and that of the older soldiers and notes that the older soldiers had a life before the…

the daily soldier goes through, however, all these forgotten and unmentioned actions are described through the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque where he depicts…