On July 22 in the year of 1898 Erich Maria Remarque was born in Osnabrück, German. Erich was an award winning author for the most popular of his books All Quiet on The Western Front. He starting writing at the age of 16, while he and his family were moving around. To save his mental […]
“Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals.” In the anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, protagonist Paul Baumer is enlisted into the war because of the influence from a schoolmaster. Although this schoolmaster has never been in a war himself and does not realize […]
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Get startedThe books read in class: All Quiet on the Western Front (by Erich Maria Remarque), and Things Fall Apart (by Chinua Achebe), are books that both demonstrate the different reasons for why people engage in wars. People engage in wars for reasons such as their want to display patriotism, many others believe it is the […]
Erich Maria Remarque’s life and experiences are reflected in his famous novel, All Quiet On The Western Front. Remarque was born June 22nd, 1898 in Osnabrück, Germany. Remarque grew up very poor, and his father worked as a bookbinder. He began writing at age sixteen, and was planning on attending The University of Münster to […]
All Quiet on The Western Front is written by Erich Remarque, a German veteran who was injured in World War 1. Remarque is able to shape the novel using personal experiences to give the book a more powerful message. The main character in the book is Paul Bäumer, and he is a German soldier who […]
According to the specific evidence from Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, World War I affect Paul and his friends by distancing from most of society and the loss of a young person’s innocence. In the first development, Paul and his friends are shown to become disconnected from everyone in society who were not participating […]
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Remarque tells a story about what happened to some German teenagers during World War I. Paul Baumer is the hero in the novel who changes from an honest, unpracticed young fellow to a solidified disappointed fighter. It is through his portrayal that they survive what they encountered. […]
The book All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque contains many instances of symbolism. The most prominent, I believe, is Kemmerich’s boots which symbolize the cheapness of life. The common mindset was that the dead shouldn’t need their possessions if someone else who is alive could use it. The soldiers who inherit […]
All Quiet on the Western Front is a historical fiction novel written by Erich Maria Remarque in 1929. The story follows the life of a young German infantryman, Paul Baumer, and his experiences fighting trench warfare on the Western Front, between Germany and France, in the midst of World War I. Throughout the novel Paul […]
