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In the incredible book, All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, the reader follows Paul Baumer, a young man who enlisted in the war. The reader goes on a journey and watches Paul and his comrades face the sheer brutality of war. In this novel, the author tries to convey the fact that war should not be glorified. Through bombardment, gunfire, and the gruesome images painted by the author, one can really understand what it would have been like to serve on the front lines in the Great War. The sheer brutality of the war can be portrayed through literary devices such as personification, similes, and metaphors.

The author Erich Maria Remarque, wrote All Quiet on the Western Front to show that war is very destructive. Sometimes people need to ask themselves, is war worth it? Through all that it destroys, what does it accomplish? Just like Paul during World War I people need to remember the ugly reality that is war before they go guns blazing’ into a situation when they are not fully aware of the cost. During World War I, Paul and his company go into the war thinking they are the “iron youth” and that war is glorious and it is their duty to serve in this honorable war. Then they go on and see that war is horrendous and very ugly. Sometimes people need to be reminded of that

In All Quiet on the Western Front, the author paints a realistic and gruesome tale of war. Many people believe that war is a glorious event. The author succeeds to show how gruesome and devastating war actually is. In many books, movies, and TV shows, war is described as glorious and good. War is not glorious or good from the beginning of time people have been at war and from that people have died. War is shown as the thing that gets the girl or the thing that makes people see you as a king and that people come back untouched. That is the false way the Hollywood and others have butchered the reality of war.

Throughout time, war has changed a person in both physical and emotional ways. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque strived to write about the true realities of war which contradicted the common, romantic belief about war. This novel captures and shifts the audience into a world so different than their home and allows them to almost experience war first-hand. All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a normal teenager named Paul Baumer who went from a typical school in Germany, to the front lines of World War 1. As we read the story, we could feel the many changes that Paul experienced, from just arriving at the front, all the way until his death. Two of many horrific changes that Paul experienced are the

The loss of humanity is like a fading sunset, as the sun goes down, the vibrant colors in the sky go away. “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque is a sad exploration of the dehumanizing effects of war on its soldiers. It follows the journey of Paullisteneder and his comrades as they navigate the brutal realities of World War I. The Heroes on “All Quiet on the Western Front” are not able to maintain their humanity, which is proven through military power abuse, losing friends because of war, and feeling disconnected from regular civilian life due to war. In war, soldiers often experience harsh realities that can lead to a thirst for revenge.

The Terror of war is not usually what all sorts of media would describe it has. The primary theme of All Quiet on the Western Front is the dreadful cruelty of war, which enlightens almost every scene of the novel. Knowledge I have

In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the author uses appearance versus reality to show how people dealt with the reality of world war 2.Even though there is a reality of war, many people perceive the war as being a glorified action. The author describes how people's perceptions may or may not match reality

The act of war is something that should not be done for obvious reasons. Yet for centuries mankind has fought over everything and anything. Often it is idolized and great war stories are told throughout the ages, yet the Story All quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque takes a different view. He looks closely at the extreme physical and mental stress it had on the soldiers. Although the story revolves around one german soldier, many on both sides experienced very similar conditions and psychological stress. Because of such profound information, at the original release of the book, the Nazi officials banned the book to prevent their propaganda from being distorted with the truth. All quiet on the Western Front not only shed truth into the lives of civilians, it educated the civilians with the physical and mental stress war had on human beings.

Ever since the beginning of World War I, writers have influenced how readers perceive war through their writing. Literature helps us better understand the world around us. When an author can persuade readers successfully, readers ultimately agree with him. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque paints vivid pictures, catches readers off guard with the unexpected aspects of war, and creates emphasis on the harsh reality of war. This lets readers know what war is like without ever having to experience it.

This showed the truth of how soldiers often felt when they came home from war. They were traumatized and will never be the same, they will always be thinking of war, they can never truly be at peace. During the novel, peace is depicted as many different things, one depiction that stuck with me was it being an elusive concept, overshadowed by the violence and trauma of war. Yes, there were moments of peace, but they were short-lived by everything else they had to deal with. One quote in specific that really stood out to me is "War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love.

It’s no surprise that soldiers will more-than-likely never come home the same. Those who have not served do not often think of the torment and negative consequences that the soldiers who make it out of war face. Erich Remarque was someone who was able to take the torment that he faced after his experience in World War I and shed light on the brutality of war. Remarque was able to illustrate the psychological problems that was experienced by men in battle with his best-selling novel All Quiet on the Western Front (Hunt). The symbolism used in the classic anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front is significant not only for showing citizens the negative attributes of war, but also the mental, physical, and emotional impact that the vicious war had on the soldiers.

World War II was one of, if not, the most destructive conflict in all of human history. Over sixty million soldiers and civilians lost their lives due to the war. However, were lives the only thing lost in the war?. In the novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, Devon School offered the boys a place shielded by the war. When Leper Lepiller enlists in the army after watching a film about ski troops, a direct link was established between Devon School and the war. World War II suddenly became much more real than before.

Throughout human existence war has been a glorified way of settling disputes and asserting dominance, a place where powerful men have proven themselves, a place where glory and honor were achieved and a place where noble heroes died. Continuously through history humans looked past the horrors of war and misleadingly saw it as a glorious manner. This glorious view on war went unchallenged for centuries when finally the general William Tecumseh Sherman spoke out about the horrors of war and famously quoted that “war is hell”. In All Quiet On The Western Front William Tecumseh Sherman’s words can been seen in Remarque’s portrayal of the First World War by making display of the close similarities that war and hell have. Remarque exposes how truly horrendous the conditions at the front were displaying similarities between the conditions at war and to conditions described of hell. Remarque shows how the weapons used in the war turned man into ashes and countrysides into dead zones creating a real hell like environment. Lastly Remarque manifests that the horrors that war brought were so deep that the suffering would become eternal just as the suffering of hell. Therefore in the novel All Quiet On The Western Front Remarque brings life to William Tecumseh Sherman's famous quote “War is hell” by exposing how alike war and hell are by virtue of their similarities: How the conditions at the front were so horrendous they resembled conditions of hell; How new warfare technology turned

In the words of Otto Von Bismarck, “Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.” Many of the preceding war novels to All Quiet on the Western Front, misrepresented or overlooked the anguish of war, in favor of more resplendent ideals such as glory, honor, or nationalism. The predominant issue of All Quiet on the Western Front is the terrible atrocities of war. The reality that is portrayed in the novel is that there was no glory or honor in this war, only a fierce barbarity that actually transformed the nature of human existence into irreparable, endless affliction, destroying the soldiers long before their deaths.

The topic of war is hard to imagine from the perspective of one who hasn't experienced it. Literature makes it accessible for the reader to explore the themes of war. Owen and Remarque both dipcik what war was like for one who has never gone through it. Men in both All Quiet on the Western Front and “Dulce Et Decorum” experience betrayal of youth, horrors of war and feelings of camaraderie.