All Quiet on the Western Front I chose the book entitled All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque. ... It is specifically set on the Western Front, between Germany and France The plot of the novel takes the reader through the experiences of a young German recruit, Paul Baumer, and his fellow soldiers, who were encouraged to enlist by their teacher Kantorek. ... Of all Paul's soldier friends, Kat is the most resourceful. ... One day in 1918, toward the end of the war, Baumer spots a bird and starts to draw it, and then he is the last of his troop to die on the Wester...

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All Quiet on the Western Front - Essay All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, is a novel that takes you through the life of a soldier in World War I. ... Paul first enlists with a group of his friends who all have much enthusiasm towards the war. ... The war and his part have become much more personalized because he actually sees the face of the enemy, the man he has killed, right in front of him. ... All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel that greatly helps in the understanding what really went on during the battles in World War 1. The book is fiction, but the ...

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All Quiet On The Western Front (AQOTWF) was written by Erich Maria Remarque and is set in world war one, beginning in 1916 and ending in November 1918, when the armistice called a halt to the war. ... They calculate that after about five months at the front, of the original 20 classmates, 8 remain and 12 are out-of-action, "(Quote)". ... The comrades are sitting quietly and listening to a bombardment a few kilometers away. ... When the Kaiser visits, the comrades learn that he is not at all a remarkable man. They lose all purpose for being in the war and so they reflect to try to make sense of...

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When Paul speaks about his entire generation "destroyed by the war-, he is talking about the way him and all of the other young soldiers becoming less and less human. ... They all felt like it was a patriotic duty, instead of a career when serving for their army. ... Humans tend to give much thought and compassion for their sick and deceased kin, but as seen in the trench of Europe, all morals have become lost. ... He realizes that she would find him more exciting if he returned to the front instead. ... The reason being is that all Europeans fighting in and around France had to face the s...

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There are many similarities and contrasts between the text, Fly Away Peter' by David Malouf and film, All Quiet on the Western Front' directed by Delbert Mann. ... There are also the similarities and contrasts of human behaviour such as the cowardice shown by Wizzer during an attack and the courage shown by Paul Bãumer throughout the tougher times at the front. ... Jim Saddler and Paul Bãumer, the two protagonists from Fly Away Peter' and All Quiet on the Western Front' respectively, had many similarities and both admired nature. ... For instance the chara...

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It had a profound impact in all aspects of life for anyone involved. ... They would witness men all around them get wounded or killed. ... The noise was deafening and explosions of fire and debris came from all directions. ... Life on the frontline was said best by this passage from "All Quiet on the Western Front" shells, gas clouds and flotillas of tanks-shattering, starvation, death. ... Women rose up and became the backbone of the home front. ...

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The resulting trench system on the Western Front covered 25,000 miles (enough to encircle the world) but also stretched non-stop from Belgium to Switzerland. ... Front line trenches were separated by an area called no-man's land which could vary in width from a few hundred yards to a mile. ... Almost all of the soldiers suffered from lice. ... Almost all such attacks were miserable failures, with mass slaughter being the result. ... From other groups came the quiet humming of favourite songs and these men knew that they were going over the top in the morning. ...

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All these new weapons were the reasons for the three consequences of the Great War. ... "Even in "quiet" periods a constant harassing fire of a few shells an hour kept the infantry on edge and caused a steady drain of casualties." (Windrow, 21) These quote shows that even in quiet battles that lasted hours, numbers of death slowly rose. ... Some of the lands that were heavily damaged were the three French cities on the Western Front. ... The war involved 70 million combatants, it cost millions of dollars, and most tragic of all, it cost about 9 million lives. ...

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All the sources stress the importance of duty to the cause, in particular, source C that evokes the prospect of a holy, or just war, in defence of the majority of the people. Respect also plays a significant role in all three sources, and, in what was a predominantly team-based society, a suggestion could be perceived that one would let down the side if the reader did not enlist for armed service. ... In the first month of the war, half a million men were recruited, while by February 1916, 2,631,000 men had volunteered for active service, while conscription, begun by the Derby scheme, placing...

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