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All Quiet on the Western Front
One of the greatest pacifist statements ever to reach the screen, All Quiet on the Western Front follows a group of German youths from their patriotic fervor at the star...
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All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque - 1929
Introduction
Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, published in 1929 (originally printed in German under the title ...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque, the son of a bookbinder, was born in Germany in 1898. A bright and perceptive student with strong interests in music, ar...
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Biography EssayIt is sometimes claimed that next to the Bible, Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues (1929; translated as All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929) has sold more copies than any...
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The German author Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) was a popular novelist whose "All Quiet on the Western Front" was the most successful German best seller on the subject of the soldier's life in Worl...
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In the first chapter of the classic World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front, four German soldiers at the front are disconsolate after having visited one of their friends, who is dying in a fi...
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It is sometimes claimed that next to the Bible, Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues (1929; translated as All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929; has sold more copies than any other book in his...
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Critical Essay by William K. Pfeiler
Neither in length, scope, nor importance can the work of Erich Maria Remarque, whose novel, Im Westen nichts Neues [All Quiet on the Western Front] (1928), became ...
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Critical Essay by Frank Ernest Hill
Erich Maria Remarque was a German soldier during the World War and has written a record of life in the trenches ["All Quiet on the Western Front"]...
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Critical Essay by Brian A. Rowley
All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) is one of the most surprising phenomena in the history of literature. Its commercial success was unparalleled&...
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Critical Essay by Louis Kronenberger
In ["All Quiet on the Western Front"] it is the war as, in all its physical horror, it passed before the eyes of a twenty-year-old German private, an...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Wood Krutch
[In "All Quiet on the Western Front"] a German tells in three hundred simple and vivid pages that same "truth about the war" which his ...
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Erich Remarque wrote All Quiet on the Western Front in first person (told by Paul), to represent the numerous soldiers who fought in war. He shows how damaging war is on a soldier's life causing th...
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The story of several schoolmates who symbolize a generation destroyed by the dehumanisation of the First World War, All Quiet on the Western Front tells of the men who died, and the tragically changed...
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"Now if we go back we will be weary, broken, burnt out, rootless, and without hope. We will not be able to find our way any more." Paul Baumer and his generation are commonly referred to a...
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The Ambiguity of War
"We run, we throw, we shoot, we kill, we lie about, we are feeble and spent . . . "
-Paul Baumer
War is brutal, and that is what the book All Quiet on the Western Front is ...
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is an uncensored depiction of the horrors of World War I, a particularly gruesome and affecting war. It tells the soldier's story through the eye...
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Paul's death at the end of All Quiet on the Western Front may seem like a pointless tragedy of war. Or it may seem like a blessing because he didn't have to go through the res...
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The Real Adventure of War
When young men and women go out in search of an adventure, what is the first thing that comes to mind? The first that comes to mind is going to war. It doesn't j...
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Foremost, the most important phrase of the opening statement was the "loss of a generation." They seem to portray the depth of the war. One must ask them self how can a generation of men disappear f...
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All Quiet On The Western front is set in a wartime battlefield and therefore one of the book's main focuses is the damaging effect that war has on the soldiers themselves. These men face the terrifyi...
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Paul's conflicts)
During the lives of men, conflicts appear that challenge them mentally, physically, and emotionally. Throughout the novel All Quiet on the Western ...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
A central issue in the novel `All Quiet on the Western Front' by Erich Maria Remarque was the hidden cost of war. The hidden costs of war are the mental anguish soldier...
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All Quiet On the Western Front
"All Quiet On the Western Front" is a book about the First World War. Erique Maria Remarque wrote the book, inspired by his own experiences as a First World War soldier...
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All quiet On the Western Front, a book written by Erich Maria Remarque tells of the harrowing experiences of the First World War as seen through the eyes of a young German soldier. I think that this n...
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Of all war novels written, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front gives a more pragmatic and evocative narrative of war. When other books try to romanticize the issue of war, Remarque i...
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"I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow" (263). This quote, from the book All Quiet on the West...
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All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel that very vividly describes the hardship of war thought a soldier eye.
The author starts by saying where they are and the conditions surrounding them. The ...
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In All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque uses the setting to explore important ideas about humanity and war by showing how ugly war is and its effects on people. This is done through t...
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"We are weak like children and experienced like old men", said Paul. When you hear lost generation you might think somebody cannot find their way. The lost generation is the young men or women that w...
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All wars have components in common, many of which become extremely apparent when written about. This includes death, animalistic instincts, the battle experience, and camaraderie. Erich Maria Remarq...
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Erich Maria Remarque was born June 22, 1898 in Osnabruumick, Germany. His father was a bookbinder that sparked Remarque's first interest for writing. He attended the University of Munster until he ...
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There are many different themes found in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front. A theme is a fundamental and often universal idea explored in a literary work. One very important theme...
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The protagonist, Paul Baumer is a young man who enlists in the German Army of World War One. He joins the war with youthful enthusiasm, but once he is sent to the front, his motivations expire. Throu...
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All Quiet on the Western Front is the prime example of how war can be very hellish. In this novel the men are in living in isolation with people they don't know very well, they are away from their...
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An American political columnist, Robert Novak, states, "It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes." In the novel, All Quiet On T...
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"Lost" is a very powerful word, which can have many conentation. Three of the most used meanings of being lost are, mentally, emotionally, and physically lost. All of these different types of being ...
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, is an account that captures the horror of war through the eyes of very young German soldier in World War two. Remarque's disapproving ideas abou...
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Paul Bäumer's leave from the war is an opportunity for him to see life removed from the harshness of war. As he makes the journey home, the closer he gets the more uncomfortable he feels. He de...
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From dusk until dawn, day after day, war had demolished men, cities, and hope. War had an effect on soldiers like nothing else, and had stuck with them for life. The way Baumer stated "Men will not un...
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Sometimes it is difficult to put a finger on what is most important in our lives. Most of the time we value what benefits our own interests rather than giving a thought to the people around us, such a...
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What is war"
What is war? Some people may assume war only deals with violence between countries or opposing governments. According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, war is "a state of hosti...
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Salvador Sali said, "Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die." Salvador Sali's quote means the people fighting the war are mainly hurt instead of others outside the war. In All Quiet ...
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Hell On Earth
Imagine how it would feel if an enemy soldier came rushing at you with a grenade in hand. This is the kind of feeling soldiers face, especially for Paul Baumer and his fellow recruits t...
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Plato once said, "only the dead see the end of the war." This quote expresses the outcome of World War I. There were many dead and wounded soldiers and a lot of families lost their loved ones. In the ...
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After recently having a conversation with a seasoned soldier, Paul Baumer, here I will mark all of his experiences and comment on his remarks on the war and how it affected him as I discussed with him...
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There are many aspects of life that people can enjoy, but one of the most underrated of these is life itself. The journey we call life, starts at birth, and from there we grow, not only emotionally an...
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Chapter one- INNOCENCE LOST
Chapter one is the first sign in the novel of innocence being lost. This chapter is where you see the first real affects of the war. When Kat tells Ginger about the dea...
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Book Review: All Quiet on the Western Front
Characters: Paul Baumer, the main character and narrator of the novel All Quiet On the Western Front, first introduces himself as a retrospective, innocen...
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12/14/05
In the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front", civilians and infantry soldiers saw war as completely different things. The civilians saw war as glorious and simple. On the other...
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In the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" the protagonist Paul Baumer experiences many mental and emotional conflicts throughout the film. One mental and emotional conflict was when he stabbed and...
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First published in 1929, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is a harrowing tale of German soldiers fighting in France. The novel explores the front-line experience of the First Worl...
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs illustrates the rank of environmental conditions humans value. The mind, which responds naturally to the level of suitability of environment conditions, becomes conf...
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The novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque shares the
same theme as Siegfried Sassoon's poem, " How to Die." Putting these two works
together makes up into one general the...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
In Erich Remarque's novel of All Quiet on the Western front, so much horrific irony is used. Remarque balances the man made disasters of war with Mother Nature's unstop...
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Show the progression in the novel from the myth of war to reality.
Remarque seeks to dispel the myth of war by providing an honest overview of what actually happened in the trenches on both sides dur...
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All Quiet on the Western Front Book Notes is a free study guide on All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. Browse the summary below:
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