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Richard Aldington
One thing you could point to is that both books are critiques of the tendency for Western societies to embrace violence as a positive trait, or as the only way to resolve conflicts. In Death of a...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
In Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, the author develops his central themes of alienation, dehumanization, and disconnectedness by using several literary devices, including...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Although All Quiet on the Western Front is set during World War I, there are many situations in the novel which could adversely affect contemporary soldiers. Reading a narrative in which war is...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
In the sixth chapter of All Quiet on the Western Front, specific examples of friendship can be seen in the midst of war. Friendship is the tie that binds soldiers together. Despite the shelling,...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul thinks that the best thing to come out of the war is the development of comradeship or esprit de corps within the soldier ranks. We did not break down, but adapted ourselves; our twenty years,...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
The schoolmaster Kantorek refers to his former students as "Iron Youth." Paul and Kropp scoff at the term Kantorek uses because it is incongruent with what the young soldiers have become. The word...
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History
The most famous novel to describe World War I is All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. Remarque was a German writer who had fought and been wounded in the Great War. He wrote...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
In All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul suggests that social pressure was one of the reasons the boys enlisted in the army. Paul identifies one potential reason why the boys enlisted in the book's...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Chapter 6 in Remarque's work is a good place to find evidence of how World War I impacted the soldier. Remarque shows the transformation of the soldier in World War I. One instance in chapter 6...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
The opening of chapter five in All Quiet on the Western Front reveals the daily difficulties that soldiers on the front had to encounter. It represents yet one more aspect of life for which Paul...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul refuses to be "put under" because he fears that the surgeon will amputate his injured leg. In Chapter 10 of All Quiet on the Western Front, after having three weeks of good food and relaxation...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Creating a found poem is a lot of fun and gives you an insight into how poets work and the differences between poetry and prose. There are a few ways you can approach this activity. Here is a...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
In All Quiet on the Western Front, boots represent playing the part of a soldier. In Chapter 2, Paul says of his boots, "standing up one looks well-built and powerful in these great drainpipes. But...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
I found a few more literary devices in Chapter Eleven of this fantastic novel. The second paragraph begins with the metaphor "Our thoughts are clay,..." and then goes on to explain, "...they are...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
From the beginning of his service in the military in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the protagonist, Paul Baumer, feels lost and disconnected from his earlier life. In Chapter Two, he...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque published All Quiet on the Western Front in 1928, several years before the Nazi Party became a political force in Germany. The novel, which depicted the horrors of trench...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
As Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front opens, narrator Paul Bäumer and his comrades are resting behind the front lines. Of the 150 men in their unit, only 80 had survived their...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
In Chapter 4 of All Quiet on the Western Front, the men fall into several attacks, and by the time gas is used, the men are in a graveyard. All along, Kat has been having premonitions about...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
The "iron youth" is the manner through which the war is presented to young people in Germany. Part of what makes All Quiet on the Western Front such a timeless read is that it probes into why wars...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Remarque's intentions are to record the horrors of war and the damage to the spirit of the individual. Remarque's novel moves from an objective style to one marked more by impressionistic images...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul's voice can be the narrative vehicle in which symbols can communicate some of his own feelings regarding the war experience. When Paul returns to the battlefield, he can talk about how the...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is the story of young man’s experience in World War I. The central theme of the story is the destructive power of war on the human identity. The...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Upon returning to the front from spending time at home, Paul has clearly established that the war has changed him. This is evident in his assertion that "I am not myself here [at home]. There is a...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
I think that the nature of the question has to be analyzed. From the question, the implication is that Paul's "downfall" was the result of, or at least impacted by, those around him. It is as if...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
The most elemental answer here is that Paul's squad dies as a result of war. Part of what makes Remarque's work so powerful is that it demonstrates the sheer terror of war, and how the only...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul articulates the condition of young men sent to the front in World War I. Paul sees his generation, a young one, as comprising the vast majority of soldiers sent towards military action in the...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
While there is a spareness to much of Eric Maria Remarque's style of writing, at times it is almost impressionistic; Remarque's narrative touch is direct and sensitive both. CHAPTER 10 The chapter...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
It’s hard to identify one particular theme in Chapter Ten of Erich Maria Remarque’s World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front, as it covers a great deal of literary ground, extending...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Literary devices such as simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, and metonymy help create the fog of war in Chapters 8 and 9. A literary device can be almost anything that is used to describe and add...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
The question – “what is the effect of Paul with the extended experience of the dead man” – seems to refer to the events discussed in Chapter Nine of Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Having been in combat in the trenches, and having experienced the deprivations and horrors of warfare, Paul and his company are sent to a field depot where they can be re-organized and given...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
In Chapter 2, Paul remarks that "we stood on the threshold of life." There is a level of excitement and exuberance that Paul and the recruits feel about the war. It is for this reason that...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul is surprised at Kemmerich's mother's grief because it is so overwhelming - so much so, in fact, that it is impossible for Paul to convey it properly: I cannot write that down. This quaking,...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel of soldiers in the First World War, All Quiet on the Western Front, the importance of food cannot be overstated. In describing the preoccupation of soldiers...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
In World War I, the earth is extremely significant for soldiers; for, they live in the trenches, they fight from the trenches, they crawl on the earth when they must move out of the trenches. The...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
In wartime there are countless injuries, and surgeons have great opportunities to practice their skills, as well as to experiment on patients. After Paul and Albert are wounded, they are taken to...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
When soldiers are together for any length of time, there is a strong comaraderie that develops--one involving deep empathy. In Chapter Nine, Paul remarks that with his fellow soldiers he is ...no...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
This incredibly moving book is a profound and powerful meditation on World War I and in particular on the lives of so many that were lost, both through death and through the events that these...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Once the new reinforcements arrive, they are issued gas masks and coffee. If you have any more questions concerning All Quiet on the Western Front, there is a great study guide for it here on...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Two aspects of "Kat" Katczinsky's personality are revealed in chapter three of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. First of all, he is resourceful. If anyone needs or wants...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Having lost his youthful innocence and joie de vivre after being in war, Paul feels alienated from his family when he returns home on furlough. Upon his return to the front, Paul finds himself...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, chronicles the experiences and thoughts of Paul Baumer, a young German soldier who is the protagonist of this story; it is through his eyes...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
In writing a book review of Remarque's work, I would stress how the hope and zeal of the young soldiers become replaced with discouragement and disillusionment. The betrayal and sense of...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
I think that what can be done here is to express how Paul's emotional experience can be universally appreciated. Certainly, few could say that they "get" what Paul is talking about. His...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
It might seem rather odd for a young man who is dying to calm and even glad as he dies; however, All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Remarque, depicts the many tragedies and kinds of deaths...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
I certainly think that Remarque agrees with this statement. Part of the futility of war presented in the work is a condition in which the soldiers are pawns of something larger. They are not...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul is suggesting that the experiences of war have helped to make children represent some of the worst aspects of adults. The bitterness and resentment that have come to replace what was once...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
If the focus is to create a gap of something that was not there, it might be interesting to see Paul return back to his hometown and engage one of the teachers who was so passionate to send the...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
In Chapter Six of All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul Baumer reflects upon his and his comrades' experiences at the front where they have been witness to the horrors of war, having seen the earth...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Remarque is able to use the contrasts between what could be or what was hoped to be and the grim reality of what is to illuminate the condition of war that young soldiers in World War I had to...