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In All Quiet on the Western Front, author Erich Maria Remarque uses tactile imagery to emphasize that war is horrific. The main character Paul fights to stay alive every day while in the midst of World War 1 as a German soldier, but injuries are bound to happen at some point, ¨The surgeon pokes around in the wound and a blackness comes before my eyes.” (243). In this quote Remarque uses 2 examples of tactile imagery, movement and feelings. The details used to describe this scene makes you feel as

Japan and China had many contrasting responses to western penetration in the nineteenth century, including economic interaction - economically China suffered and Japan prospered, Japanese agricultural productivity increased while China’s did not, and China only accepted a small amount of goods while Japan accepted a wide range of goods- and political interaction - China went to war but Japan did not, Japan adopted western learning styles but China did not, and Japan heavily increased taxes on their

All Quiet On The Western Front is the German side and The Generals Die In Bed is the Allied side. The story of All Quiet On The Western Front centers on a young teenager, Paul Baumer the 19 year old German together with his 4 other classmates is persuaded to volunteer for the German army by enlisting at the beginning of World War I and find themselves fighting in the French warfare. The story is told entirely through the experiences of the young German recruits and highlights the tragedy of war

The Tragedies of Youth in War In WW1 over 10 million young men were killed. This took away all of the soldiers hopes and dreams. In All Quiet on the Western front a novel by Erich Remarque about the evils of war shown through Paul Baumer a German Soldier, It also shows how the men all lost their youth and their lives as young men. The worst place for a young man to be is in war because of the deaths of soldiers, the loss of their youth, and the loss of their sense of home. Death is horrible for

Jordan Hist 102H Document Questions Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front 1) Who is Paul Baumer? Describe his background and experiences prior to the war. In what ways does he represent the "typical" soldier in WWI? In what ways is he exceptional? How do his views about the war and his reasons for fighting change over time? Paul Baumer is the narrator of All Quiet on the Western Front. He volunteered to join the military as a nineteen year old boy. He seems to be a bit sensitive in his writing

This isn’t like any other novel through literary history that we have discussed, this wartime experience with ideals such as patriotism, nationalism and the glories of war, the book “All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque doesn’t engage in any part of this discussion at all and the reader’s realistic depiction of war and the loss of innocence, humanity, and emotion that accompany it. Interestingly, this novel does not simply glorify war, it seeks to engage in a conversation about

The story “All Quiet on the Western Front” is centered around the German war front during World War I. Paul Baumer, our narrator, is a young soldier within the German infantry along with a group of his friends. Baumer and his friends were urged to enlist in the war by their patriotic teacher who glorified the fighting and how they would be saving their homeland. Our story starts out on the front lines where Paul and a group of his friends are fighting for their survival. Due to all the death and

The novel All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is the story of a group of young men fighting for Germany in World War I as told by Paul, a nineteen year old soldier. The book illustrates the effect of war on the lives of everyone involved, and how inhumane war is. War is inhumane becauses it makes people lose empathy for others and requires young people to grow up too fast. War is inhumane because it causes the youth to lose their empathy and value for human life or sensitivity

I plan to compare and contrast the dynamic interaction between East Asian countries and the western world via anime and SF trade, information networks or imagination, Techno-Orientalism, fetishization of anime, Western imperialism, and the travel of transnational elites. 1. In Peter G. Rowe’s “Keeping and Re-Using”, subjectivity, space, and time are all questioned by addressing Zaha Hadid’s foreign architecture in Seoul, Korea. Her incorporation of metonymic landscape -- “substitution of a thing

assassination of Franz Ferdinand led to a war called the Great War, or the First World War. It resulted in the death of millions of innocent people. Erich Maria Remarque, who was a soldier in the First World War, wrote a novel called All Quiet on the Western Front. In Remarque’s novel, there are positive characteristics, comradeship, and friendship. Paul is the main character and narrator who was encouraged by his teacher to go to a war with his peers. Remarque showed that comradeship and friendship were