The Way Back

then everything went blank; Angel was dazed and her eyeballs rolled back, like her eyes just went white. She was having another…

ground. But then I had to ask myself why I was on a trampoline. I couldn’t remember anything. Suddenly I felt hands on my shoulders and side. Someone was trying to roll me to my back. As soon as I was lying on my back, the light blinded me. My eyes adjusted slowly to the brightness, but as soon as they did it all came back to me. With my mom, sister and friends all around me, I knew that I was at my own birthday party in the building of the Burlington Trampoline Park. My twin sister and I…

as well. An example of this was when Paul’s group attacked Himmelstoss or when they mindlessly kill their enemies on the battlefield, something no civilian would have been likely to do if not for the war. As the months go by the battle continues back and fourth. Days on end with lack of food sleep and water means the men are all exhausted, but must go on for their lives and the lives of their comrades depend on it. There is no other option and the mental burden of being killed at any moment by…

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,…

the generations is that the older generation had their youth. They moved out of the house, got married, started a job, and enjoyed one of the most important times in their lives. These men have lost that. After the war they are expected to jump right back into reality, and somehow have the same drive and spirit they had before. However, Paul knows that this is just not…

the stomach, bleeding to death in no-man's-land, drowning in mud, succumbing to dysentery, shot for deserting, bayoneted at close range, being vaporized by a whizz-bang. All of these deaths, each time performed in a new, impersonal, and mechanized way, led to the technological advances of war…

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…

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He is also at a military camp with his soldiers. He is serving them beverages and all of a sudden gets hit by a oncoming bullet. The lieutenant gets hit in the arm and is told to go to the hospital but he won't give in. Finally he starts to make his way to the hospital. He gets there and is in fear of having his arm amputated. The doctor says that he isn't going to cut it…

“I'll race you back to the bunkhouse!” We took off running and pushing each other, Cody won. “Ah! I won.” Cody said. “I'm to tired to run.” I said as I tried to catch my breath. “Brooklyn, Cody, get everyone out of the bunkhouse, dinners ready.” Uncle Sam yelled…