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All Quiet On The Western Front Effects Of War

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What were the effects of the war on the soldiers who fought in it? The effects of war on these soldiers’ lives, had a very negative impact. Some of the effects were a lost generation, scarring the soldiers for life, causing them to lose their innocence, and to take other people’s lives. I’m going to synthesize and analyzes these three situations; in All Quiet on the Western the Front the main character is Paul Baumer, the movie Gallipoli the main character is Archie Hamilton, and the poem They. All of these situations are about what one certain soldier experience in World War 1. All Quiet on the Western Front is about a man named Paul Baumer. Paul and his classmates were peer-pressured to fight in the war. Paul was a young happy man …show more content…

The movie is about the teenager named Archie Hamilton, he wanted to do something in his life. Archie thought to fight in the war would make differences, he didn’t know what the war would be like. Australia wasn’t even a big party in the war, they were just helping their alliance. When Archie went to war he saw men dying in a blink of an eye. When Archie was in the trenches he saw the generals makes pointless decisions. Just like All Quiet on the Western Front, the soldiers are dying which, is killing that generation’s population for some war. Archie could have become a famous runner and had a future, Paul also could have had a future because he really liked school and had a bright future. Instead, people advertised and make fighting in the war an honor. When they died in Gallipoli, a lot of the men left letters inside of the trenches walls to give to their love ones, these soldiers didn’t deserve to die. Back then only men could fight in the war so when the male population for that age group started to go down, there were many females who became widows and had no one to marry. I respect Archie, but it was not the best decision he ever made. It was not the best decision for all the soldiers who decide to fight in the

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All Quiet on the Western Front taught me many new lessons about the war. The book had showed everything from good to bad. I found the book very interesting and a good resource to learn more about the war. Paul had been the longest soldier who had fought out of his group. Paul had overcome many challenges and had experienced many different events.

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“breeding, education are changing…hardly recognizable any longer”(121)this shows how the norm for paul has become the war. Paul has been in the war for so long that when he returns home he feels out of place and later goes on to talk about he his new home is the front line. Towards the end of the book paul goes into great detail about how the war has drastically changed them all and that for those who have survived the war things will never be the same “few will adapt themselves, some others will merely submit and most will be bewildered”(131). This depicts how paul and his generation will never fully recover from the war things will never be the same few will be able start over but most were scared and lost at war. Paul and his generation are considered the lost generation because they will never be able to fully recover from the war they will forever live in the war mentality because of PTSD or other mental health

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After the traumatic experiences he suffered through, Paul made mental growth in the human aspect. He figured out that “there are still human faces” even in his enemies. Further in this realization he sympathizes with the rest of the wounded soldiers stuck in similar hospitals all over the enemy lines. This identification attaches Paul to the enemy, positively affecting his mental condition. He recognizes that he is not as drastically different as he thought which ultimately changes his outlook on the war.

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The lost generation has become a theme of World War I as a whole. In All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque portrays this with ease. Paul reflects on his life and how “all [his] generation is experiencing these thing with him” (Remarque 263). Paul’s entire generation

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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Glory (1989), are two epic war dramas with unmatched levels of realism. Director Lewis Milestone’s film, All Quiet on the Western Front and Edward Zwick’s Glory both follow a similar plot structure and do a wonderful job contrasting the horrors of war and the beauty of life. All Quiet on the Western Front follows Paul Baumer, a German soldier, during WWI. The film begins with Paul listening to a speech from Professor Kantorek about saving the homeland.

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In agreement with Eksteins, Paul’s generation is lost psychologically and bodily. All Quiet on the Western Front is not just the biography of one man as Pfeiler argues but rather the story of many men. Men that had potential to become more than dead soldiers. In the end, a lost generation exists from the dead that will not return home and the living that will return home as different people. Paul’s generation has lost its potential and energy to the war.

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The soldiers suffered emotionally due to partaking in killing many men, watching fellow soldiers die slowly, and struggling to create brotherhood. Emotionally these men will never be the same due to war. One author says, “ even though they have escaped the shells they were destroyed by war” ( Gayle, 2017). This has an everlasting impact on the way that these men think and interact with others.

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In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Paul Bäumer participates in the bloodiest war of all time, and he develops the skills of intelligence, leadership, and loyalty. In

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World War One was a very gruesome and lengthy war that physically and emotionally wrecked the soldiers who fought for their country. All Quiet on the Western Front is a book written by Erich Maria Remarque that defines what war is like in the eyes of soldiers. Some of Remarque's main characters in his book include Paul, his high school peers, and his schoolmaster Kantorek. These 19-year-old boys were fresh out of grade school and decided to enlist in the military due to Kantorek's forceful pressure for the boys to fulfill their patriotic duties. He pushed nationalism and patriotism in his lectures when recruiting the young boys to serve their country which the boys believed until they became soldiers and quickly learned that Kantorek's opinion

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