Thursday, May 30, 2019
All Quiet on the Western Front Essays: Two Years :: All Quiet on the Western Front Essays
All Quiet on the occidental Front Two Years The book I chose to read was All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque. The story told in All Quiet on the Western Front occurs during the two years just before the Armistice terminate World War I in November 1918. By 1916 when the story begins, World War I had already been underway for two years. From the beginning, World War I was fought in two areas, named for their geographical relationship to Germany. The Eastern Front extended into Russia, and the Western Front extended through Belgium into Northern France. The main character is a young man named Paul Baumer who is a 19 year-old private in the German army. It follows Paul trough the horrors of World War I. Paul joins the army later a recruiter named Kantorek pumps him and his friends full of glory and honor. Glory and honor they can entrance by joining up. Paul is excited that he is going off to war. erst he arrives at the front he begins to understand the t errible thing called war. He realizes that war isnt all glory, at that place is death and destruction. Paul learns to administer with the deaths of all his friends and how to keep his mind clear without turning into an animal. One of the big issues in the book was Kemmerichs leather boots. At his death everybody was squabbling over who would get them. Remarque, in my opinion, shows you the pettiness between good friends because of war. Remarque kind of slips in these themes, some others are how terrible war really is, friendship is a must to outride alive on the battlefield, and World War I destroyed a generation. During the time period of All Quiet on the Western Front the Russian were rebelling against Czar Nicholas II. Eventually him and his entire family were killed, and so began communist Russia. Also during this time European countries were colonizing Asia and Africa which was one of the causes of World War I. The Ottoman Empire collapses and the introduction of atomic nu mber 1 Fords Model T. If there was one thing that I learned from this book it is that war is not pretty. Despite what the recruiters and military personnel say, if there is a war you can die.
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