Remarque also ties in many smaller sub topics within the theme to display other characteristics not usually noticed by people not involved directly in the War. ... The novel is set at the beginning of World War I. ... The soldiers are often enlisted at very young ages and sent in to live amongst people they hardly know at the beginning. ... The fact that Remarque told of all the horrifying events makes this novel very different from most War novels. ... To achieve a feeling of indifference towards such a harsh reality as death is something that is very hard to imagine, but the reader does ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6

The Education Act of 1870 made elementary education compulsory for everyone between the ages of 5 and 13. ... To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the individual sensibility in a world which it was felt was becoming ever more standardized and uniform, an age of the masses. ... Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. ... His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made him the explorer of the transition of lives and minds from the age of traditional values and religious certa...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42

He's worked various jobs, and tried to keep up work on his Dresden novel all this time. ... He hears noises and suffers from insomnia forever afterward, and at night he writes grotesque novels. ... He gives us the first line and the last, and the central story of the novel is ready to begin. ... This characteristic is brought even more to the forefront later in the novel. ... He jumps forward to 1965, when he is a middle-aged man visiting his mother in a nursing home. ...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School