Czmerda Honors English 10 Poor Boys In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the French girl's remark, "the war- great sadness- poor boys" is true of the events described in the novel in many respects because of the future hopes and dreams the men lost, the youth and innocence that was taken away from them, and the families and friends that were removed from their lives for good. ... In the novel, Paul notes that teachers and parents persuaded he and other young men to enlist in the war effort. ... He recognized that he must stop pitying himself in saying, "...all my genera...

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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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