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All Quiet On The Western Front Dialectical Journal

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All Quiet On The Western Front

Predict: I think that at first Paul Baumer will be a great soldier through training. But once the real fighting begins he will realize that what he is doing is wrong. That war should never happen and just try to survive when many didn’t. I think this because that is how most soldiers are, at first they think they are ready and think they know what is going to happen. But later on once fighting begins they all realize that war is hell.
The years covered are or when it takes place is late into World War 1. More specifically 1917-1918. The setting of the story takes place on the German/France front or the western front.

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Like when the men in Paul’s unit went to the bar and tried to get French woman. Or like when they would be behind the front resting, they would joke and have fun like anyone else. The part that surprised me the most was when the training officer was put in the front, and realized how bad it was. He then tries to become friends with the very men he despised during training.

All Quiet on The Western Front helped me to understand why war is horrible. It also showed me why Pauls generation is called “the lost generation” because many of the men in it where killed or seriously wounded. It also helped show me how they fought in World War 1. They would just attack, retreat, and then defend their trenches. Also it showed how war can make a man go crazy, like when Detering saw the cherry tree and thought of home and ran away.
All Quiet on The Western Front also showed me how soldiers morale can go from being good, to being awful. Like when the German Emperor came to the front line, the men where sad when they found out he was little and with a weak voice. World War 1 could also be part of reason for the spanish flu, which many think is because of the artillery shells digging up so much dirt. All Quiet on The Western Front also showed me how World War 1 really did

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