Paul Bäumer is introduced as the main character in the novel, and the novel is told in his experience and his perspective. He starts the story off by explaining what happens during a daily life of a soldier at a war. He goes on to explains the amount of what they eat and a number of smoking supplies that they can have. He explains that the war that they are currently in, their supplies are rationed. He then explains that 14 days ago they had to go to the front line and to go to battle.
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.
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v08/v08p433_berg.html https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005538 Exposition Start of in poland(first place invaded) There father was shot and killed while trying to escape They are put on a transport train to SACHSENHAUSEN Rising action (Flashback) Francoise has a flashback about being in a hospital. She accidentally hears her father talking to a doctor about how he can't pay to fix her Typhoid.
Erich Remarque, author of the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, presents a true story of a soldier throughout World War I. At the young age of 19, Paul Bäumer voluntarily enters the draft to fight for his home country, Germany. Throughout the war, Paul disconnects his mind from his feelings, keeping his emotions away from the bitter reality he is experiencing. This helps him survive mentally throughout the course of the war. The death of Paul 's friend Kemmerich forces him to cover his grief, “My limbs move supplely, I feel my joints strong, I breathe the air deeply. The night lives, I live.”
There are lots of characteristics that one must learn tactics for survival while on the front line during the war, these traits decide between life and death. In order to survive, Mueller, in All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque portrays him as crude, unthoughtful, and reluctant. There are many words that describe the way he treats others, at times he does not consider what he is saying; he tends to speak before he thinks. He “is rather crude and tactless” due to how he spoke to others, he tends to step out of his place (Remarque 14). Being involved in war may have shaped him to be this way, although this is one of his highly notable traits.
Joby is a young boy of just fourteen who is in the Civil war. He is scared and afraid because he is only a drummer boy and the other soldiers have weapons and armor to protect them. All Joby has is his drum and he doesn't feel that it will protect him from what it is ahead. The general inspires Joby to overcome his fears and walk bravely onto the battlefield.
In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque tells us about the impact of World War I through a solider named Paul Baumer. Before the war, Paul was an empathetic, understanding young man who was full of patriotism and wanted to fight for his country. However, throughout the war, the fear and constant apprehension disconnected him from his emotions and completely changed the person he used to be. One event that had a major impact on Paul was when he stabbed an enemy soldier who jumped into his shell hole in the middle of a bombardment. When Paul realized the enemy soldier wasn’t dead right away, he used his own supplies to bandage the wound, even though he knew death was inevitable for this man.
Baumer feels he loses his purpose in life because of the brutality of the war. Prior to enlisting in the war, Paul is an emotional, artistic boy. After a prolonged period of time in the war, Baumer returns to his home on leave, and looks through his books, he says, “I stand there dumb. As before a judge. Dejected.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that, “envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide.” (370). John Knowles’ A Separate Peace is set during World War I at Devon School, a boarding school for boys. The book centers on Gene Forrester, a student at Devon, who could be described as an intelligent, but jealous, conformist. A Separate Peace illustrates Gene’s envy and imitation of his friend, Finny, and how it affects himself and his relationship with Finny, and also how Gene eventually finds peace.
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
Emerson states “envy is ignorance; limitation is suicide”(370). John Knowles writes A Separate Peace about a boy named Gene returning to an old school. Gene is a teenage boy, smart, but jealous of his best friend Finny who is popular and liked by everyone. A Separate Peace demonstrates how Gene’s envy and imitation of Finny affect him, affect his relationship with Finny, and his achievement of peace. Gene’s envy and imitation affects him in a few ways.
Erich Maria Remarque was a man who had lived through the terrors of war, serving since he was eighteen. His first-hand experience shines through the text in his famous war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, which tells the life of young Paul Bäumer as he serves during World War 1. The book was, and still is, praised to be universal. The blatant show of brutality, and the characters’ questioning of politics and their own self often reaches into the hearts of the readers, regardless of who or where they are. Brutality and images of war are abundant in this book, giving the story a feeling of reality.
“All Quiet on the Western Front’ is one of the most acclaimed war novels of the last century. As the plot of the novel progresses, the reader learns about the horrific experiences of Paul Baumer and his complex understanding of the world around him. From the start of the narration, the reader witnesses a landscape riddled with more tragedies that any human should have to endure in their lifetime. Enough of these images have the power to remain lingering in the minds of the reader for years to come. Images of war-sanctioned horses injured by shrapnel scream out in vain as another trips over his entangled guts.
The war novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque depicts one protagonist, Paul, as he undergoes a psychological transformation. Paul plays a role as a soldier fighting in World War I. His experiences during the war are not episodes the average person would simply experience. Alternatively, his experiences allow him to develop into a more sophisticated individual. Remarque illustrates these metamorphic experiences to expose his theme of the loss of not only people’s lives but also innocence and tranquility that occurs in war.
In the novel, Tomorrow When The War Began, by John Marsden is about eight teenagers who confronted a situation that is out of their security and are trying to save their families. Fi, Homer, and Ellie are few of the characters that showed courageousness in the novel; finding out their unknown courage, taking risks, and not giving up to everything that happens. It is some of John Marsden’s message about courage. The characters also demonstrate it while they were in conflict with the soldiers who invaded their town and imprison their families in the Showground. Courage is what Ellie has that she never thought she had.
