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Paul Baumer is the main character and narrator of All Quiet on the Western Front. He joins the war, partly because of his teacher Kantorek, who stressed the importance of joining the war, and partly because of the propaganda of the war, telling him to join. He becomes friends with the members of his squad. At the end of the book, all of Paul’s friends die and Paul is last surviving members of his squad. After realizing the effects the war has on his humanity and his future, Paul soon dies.…

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…

Western Mystique: Native American Morals What is a western? The west is a described as a barren wasteland or the land that cowboys duel and fight. Also, people think that a western is depicted that Native Americans as the bad guys or the villains. But that is not always the case in the film The Searchers by John Ford he depicts indians as the villains, weak, and unworthy. Whereas William Herbert is describing Natives as strong and proud. John Ford had his characters in his film do some…

simple name of simple boy. He’s no one special, just your average Joe. Paul was a lively young man whom was persuaded to join and fight in the German Army during World War I. Baumer is the main protagonist and narrator of the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque. He started out in this story as an innocent young man; but then he is thrust into adulthood. He must learn to cope with the society of war by undergoing a series of changes that are necessary for his survival.…

powers in negative ways. In the novel All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, many of the soldiers have bad experiences with higher ranking leaders. Paul Baumer, Stanislaus Katczinsky, Leer, and many other soldiers had to do questionable things because their leaders told them to. Through leaders like Himmelstoss, Kantorek, and The Kaiser, Remarque reveals the abusive traits of many of the leaders in the novel All Quiet On the Western Front. Corporal Himmelstoss is an…

All Quiet on the Western Front The book stars Paul Bäumer, a young German gentleman who enlists, with his friends, to fight in World War I. After ten weeks of military training at the hands of Corporal Himmelstoss Paul’s outlook on the war completely changes. He believed, at the time of enlisting, that he was enlisting for noble reasons ones of patriotism and nationalism, then the Corporal shows him the ugly side of the war, the brutality. Their lives become constant fear. After a short break…

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…

that death is not a voyage to those who stand face to face with it. In the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque it describes a German soldier’s punishing physical and mental stress during the First World War, as well as the detachment from civilian life. In addition, returning back to the civilian life after experiencing war is a challenge for soldiers. In All Quiet on the Western Front each of the soldier’s lives are enduringly changed by war, they have to deal with…

All Quiet on the Western Front as an Antiwar Novel Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel that dispels beliefs about the glory of the soldier. Remarque vividly describes the dehumanization of trench warfare and war in general. He exposes the incredible toll that combat takes on soldiers—all for the purpose of fighting other people’s battles, against other soldiers who have nothing personally against each other. The novel went past the obvious physical damage that…

Essay Topic 3 Changing a Global Perspective All Quiet on the Western Front, an international bestseller, was named the greatest war novel of all time for a multitude of reasons. These reasons do not include his ability to tell an enticing story or describe key points in great detail, but because it changed the perspective of millions of people all over the world and their concept of war. In Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, he shattered the idea of war everyday citizens had by…