The Road Back

When one travels on a road trip, there can be many mixed feelings of traveling to a different state, or even country. In “Back Road” by Vinnie Rotondaro, two adults travel from New York City to Pittsburgh for a friends engagement, taking the long way there. In the story “A Winter’s Drive” by ReadWorks, the text is about a man going to Canada for a few days to retrieve something he left behind when he moved to the United States. Mood is the state of feeling from the author that develops during the pursue of different texts, art works, or music. The mood of “Back Roads” by Vinnie Rotondaro is relaxed shown through setting, and the mood for “A Winter’s Drive” by ReadWorks was anxious shown through imagery. In “Back Roads” by Vinnie Rotondaro, the story is about two men traveling through New York City, taking the long road around the states to travel to Pittsburgh. The mood of…

paragraphs of the novel are ironic: “He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front” (Remarque 224). The fact that the title is revealed this late says something about the price of lying that the war is good and noble. Furthermore, “He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had…

Hemmelstoss. This man was the cruelest drill Sargent in their regiment that enforced large amounts of punishments for the smallest misdeeds done. The next grueling experience for the troops was when they had to fight in the trenches. The trenches did not suppress the loud bangs from bombs, or provide a safe escape route if needed, for these trenches are only somewhat helpful. Even though their moral does not drop, Paul and his regiment are in misery and disarray when they lose fellow soldiers.…

Published in 1928, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a noteworthy novel that illustrates the ordeals of Paul Baumer, a young German soldier who is deployed at the Western Front. Paul, who acts as the primary narrator for the novel, precisely elucidates several tragedies that he and his comrades witness as a result of violence inflicted by war. His comrades, which include Kat, Muller, Albert, and Kemmerich, help Paul overcome multiple obstacles such as the horrors of the…

Effects of the war, specifically the front lines, are shown significantly through the historical novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque. The author displays the development of Paul, the narrator through World War I, through the story as he encounters the front, and how it can change someone’s life forever. Soldiers endure countless hours of pure war. The effects of the front can bring abandonment in their life and them wanting no one. It is very dehumanizing and…

The novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front” written by Erich Maria Remarque, follows the story of a young German soldier named Paul, who is fighting on the western front , along with his friends. A the story progresses, it unveils the many horrors that were experienced or witnessed during the war, and the long term effects it has. “Life is simply is one continual watch against the menace of death;-it has transformed us into unthinking animals in order to give us the weapon of instinct.” Remarque…

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel, and Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s own graphic memoir, Paul Baumer and Marji live in unfavorable environments, permanently shaping their beliefs and identities. During World War I, Paul fights on the Western Front where the war dehumanizes him. Before Baumer serves in the cruel war, he is blinded by the glory he is told he will receive by entering Germany’s army. However, after months of witnessing inhumanely killed…

had just begun to love life and the; and we had shot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our heart.” This detachment to human feelings, Kropp concludes, has destroyed everything for them, as they cannot believe in anything except war. Baümer later on proves the statement’s accuracy. When he gets leave and is back in the safety of his home, he cannot help but feeling a sense of strangeness, with his memories being nothing more than vague shadows. He realized he could no…

going through the worst times of his life at the front. Instead of spending as much time as possible with his family; he prefers to “be alone”. After his leave and his realization that he will never be the same again, Paul has no more hope. Paul has no more hope that the past will change itself or even change him. Paul is solely focused on the war and his day to day life. Paul says, “I often shudder when a thought from the days before the war comes momentarily into my head” (Remarque 232). Paul…

The destruction, devastation, and desolation of war illustrate the dangers of conflict. Taken during the new age of photography, Scene Showing Deserted Camp and Wounded Soldier by Matthew Brady allowed numerous Americans to see the Civil War with their own eyes. While no visible conflicts appear in the work, it still illustrates the destructive abilities of war on both the human and nature. In the photo, the rifle next to the injured soldier suggests a recent battle. The broken walls and…