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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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        <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>
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        <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>
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        <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.
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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>
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        <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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        <title><![CDATA[Some Literary critics have agreed that chapter 5, romanticizes the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Some Literary critics have agreed that chapter 5, romanticizes the social aspect of war and the military. Does the author do this? To what Extent?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:53:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Paul and his friends had first encountered Himmelstoss when they were...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Paul and his friends had first encountered Himmelstoss when they were new recruits and he was their drill sergeant.  Himmelstoss, who had been a simple postman in civilian life, was a sadistic and abusive officer, having let the power he received in the military go to his head.  As Kat explains,

"If you give a man a little bit of authority he...snaps at it...The army is based on that; one man must always have power over the other...Let a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:06:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In All Quiet on the Western Front, what points is Remarque making about...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In All Quiet on the Western Front, what points is Remarque making about the affect of the military and war on certain people?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:19:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In chapter 5, are the lice symbolic?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In chapter 5, are the lice symbolic?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:21:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Paul despises Corporal Himmelstoss, who had "the reputation of being...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Paul despises Corporal Himmelstoss, who had "the reputation of being the strictest disciplinarian in the camp, and was proud of it".  In Paul's words, Himmelstoss was a "small undersized fellow" who had "a special dislike" of Paul and his friends because from them he sensed "a quiet defiance".
The Corporal took complete advantage of his position of power, tormenting the men under his command in an effort to break them.  Paul recalls having...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:27:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The narrator says that Katczinsky has "a sixth sense," and calls him...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The narrator says that Katczinsky has "a sixth sense," and calls him "the smartest man (he) knows."  He cites the example of one night when the company had landed in "some entirely unknown spot, a sorry hole, that has been eaten out to the very walls."  Quartered in "a small dark factory adapted to the purpose," the men find that they are expected to bed down on bunks made of hard wire netting stretched over wooden beams.  The men have...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:59:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Kat blames the tendency of power to corrupt on man's fallen nature.  He...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Kat blames the tendency of power to corrupt on man's fallen nature.  He says,

"In himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum".

According to Kat, man by nature lusts after power.  As an example, he suggests,

"...if you train a dog to eat potatoes and then afterwards put a piece of meat in front of him, he'll snap at it, it's his nature.  And if you give a man a little bit of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:36:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[According to Kat in All Quiet on the Western Front, why does power corrupt?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[According to Kat in All Quiet on the Western Front, why does power corrupt?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 18:59:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[One of the advantages of have a limited first-person narrator is the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[One of the advantages of have a limited first-person narrator is the opportunity for the reader to leanr along with the character. The first two chapters are Paul's acclamation to military action and his transition from school boy to soldier.
By chapter three, however, Paul is ready to begin forming relationships with the soldiers in his division. A number of his school-mates have either died or gone different directions, and his family is far...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 5 Oct 2009 18:04:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the 3rd chapter of All Quiet On The Western Front, why does Remarque...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the 3rd chapter of All Quiet On The Western Front, why does Remarque imbue the characters with more complex and rich personalities?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:03:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I agree with all these answers, but would like to add that Hitler was...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I agree with all these answers, but would like to add that Hitler was also a soldier in WWI and that part of the appeal of Nazism was to regain Germany's supposed "lost glory" and strike back at those Hitler believed had "stabbed Germany in the back" and prevented her from winning the war.
In short, Germany was humiliated by the war and many people were left in financial ruins in the wake of the power vacuum and the heavy reparations thrust...]]></description>
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