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        <title><![CDATA[What purpose does the extended description of Pauls time in the Catholic...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What purpose does the extended description of Pauls time in the Catholic hospital serve in moving the novels thematic elements?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:29:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[While the young men are in the equivalent of basic training under...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/quiet-western/q-and-a/how-do-young-men-feel-about-corporal-himmelstoss-117153</link>
        <description><![CDATA[While the young men are in the equivalent of basic training under Corporal Himmelstoss, they find him unfair and even cruel. "He is known as the toughest disciplinarian in the camp, but he pushes this group of boys especially hard because he believes they are defiant. His method of punishing the bedwetters is horribly unjust and would never work in the first place; the boys just thwart his plan by alternating sleeping on the bed and on the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:40:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How do the young men feel about Corporal Himmelstoss in All Quiet on the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How do the young men feel about Corporal Himmelstoss in All Quiet on the Western Front? Why?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:35:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is "the abyss" to which he fears such thoughts will lead? ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is "the abyss" to which he fears such thoughts will lead? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:35:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This incident is one that shows the desperation of a failing army and...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/quiet-western/q-and-a/how-does-army-prepare-kaisers-visite-all-quiet-114979</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This incident is one that shows the desperation of a failing army and the lengths to which authority figures will go to make things look better than they really are. It's one of the scenes that infuriates readers, and yet it is one of the most relevant and timely as we continue to see this kind of propaganda all over the world.
To prepare for the Kaiser's visit, the men drilled as though they were back in basic training rather than on the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:58:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Schoolmaster Kantorek refers to his former students as "the Iron...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Schoolmaster Kantorek refers to his former students as "the Iron Youth".  Paul Baumer and Albert Kropp scoff at the term because it is so ironic.  Kantorek speaks of them as if they are glorious and indestructible, but in reality, as they find out so quickly on the front, the young men are not iron but only flesh and blood, and their youth is stripped from them forever by the realities of war.
Paul speaks with bitterness about men like...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:53:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does the schoolmaster Kantorek refer to his former students in All...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does the schoolmaster Kantorek refer to his former students in All Quiet on the Western Front?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:31:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what is the earth compared to]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/quiet-western/q-and-a/what-earth-compared-115229</link>
        <description><![CDATA[what is the earth compared to]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:15:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does the army prepare for the Kaiser's visit in All Quiet on the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does the army prepare for the Kaiser's visit in All Quiet on the Western Front?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:31:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[While on an especially risky patrol, Paul promises himself that, should...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While on an especially risky patrol, Paul promises himself that, should some soldiers hop intoi his shell hole, Paul would be the first to strike]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:01:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is Paul's attitude of what the war has done to his generation...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/quiet-western/q-and-a/what-pauls-attitude-what-war-has-done-his-113703</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is Paul's attitude of what the war has done to his generation compared to the older soldiers?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 10:15:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Chapter Seven; Paul and Kermmerick's mother.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Chapter Seven; Paul and Kermmerick's mother.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:47:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In relating Paul's experience with the French girl, the author is tying...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In relating Paul's experience with the French girl, the author is tying to show the romance and innocence that is still a part of Paul's nature.  In contrast to Leer, who is "an old hand at the game", passion is new to Paul, something beautiful to which he "yield(s) himself trustingly...his desires are strangely compounded of yearning and misery".  Paul looks for his fleeting relationship with the French girl to be something pure and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 22:58:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front", Chapter 6...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/quiet-western/q-and-a/chapter-six-signs-germans-losing-war-111933</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front", Chapter 6 there are two major signs that the Germans are starting to lose the war.
The first of these is the state of the two sides' artillery.  The Allies' artillery is increasing in number.  By contrast, German artillery is wearing out -- enough so that some shells are landing in the Germans' own trenches.
The second sign is that many of the German troops are young and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:35:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Chapter 7 of All Quiet on the Western Front, what is the author...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Chapter 7 of All Quiet on the Western Front, what is the author trying to relay about Paul's character?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:59:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Chapter six. Signs Germans are losing the war.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Chapter six. Signs Germans are losing the war.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:56:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what does Paul Baümer think of the enemy in All Quiet on the Western...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/quiet-western/q-and-a/what-does-paul-baumer-think-enemy-all-quiet-111811</link>
        <description><![CDATA[what does Paul Baümer think of the enemy in All Quiet on the Western front, how do these thoughts evolve]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 08:53:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Written in present tense, with its stark realism, 10 sections total, the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/quiet-western/q-and-a/chapter-six-trench-warfare-111689</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Written in present tense, with its stark realism, 10 sections total, the pace of chapter six is relentless; the chapter reads like machine gun fire.  Some passages are stand-alones--they have no connection to the paragraph before or after.  They sound like lyrics to a Metallica song:

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades--words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

Chapter six begins...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 05:01:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Chapter six. Trench warfare.
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        <description><![CDATA[Chapter six. Trench warfare.
 ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:34:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Chapter 5 is a quiet chapter.  It comes after the relenting trench...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/quiet-western/q-and-a/some-literary-critics-have-agreed-that-chapter-5-110707</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Chapter 5 is a quiet chapter.  It comes after the relenting trench warfare descriptions of chapter 4 and the gas attacks of chapter 6.  Even though it is a quiet chapter, there is killing; chapter 5 begins and ends with animal death imagery: killing lice at the beginning and the goose at the end.  Comparing men to dying animals is a leitmotif here--and I would not classify the chapter, as a whole, as Romantic because of this. 
The crux...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:23:51 PST</pubDate>
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