Descriptive Essay: All Quiet On The Western Front

The soldiers had to be very careful as well as muted so that they wouldn’t be heard by the enemy. “Their leader knelt down, motioning with his hands, and one by one the other soldiers squatted in the shadows, vanishing in the primitive stealth of warfare” (O’Brien 198). The leaders would use hand signals to tell their soldiers what their next move was without being heard. Tim O’Brien wanted people to understand, and feel what it was like to be in the war, so he wrote the short story “Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?” He wanted his readers to understand how war such a isolated time, also how anxious all of the soldiers were of being heard.

In the novel, Misha uses dramatic irony to toy with the minds of his audience. He claims to know what happened that fateful night, but everyone else is seemingly unaware of what is going to happen to them. “I saw,” he says, “that Anastasiya cradled her treasured dog, Jimmy, who was so ominously quiet.” Both Misha and his audience are aware of something important, something of which the characters in the story are not aware. Misha has previously mentioned the execution of the Romanov family, and every word he uses hints at it even more.

The poem includes descriptions of the speakers comrade, that had recently been killed, giving imagery of what he views. The soldier explains how his companion appears “massacred”, with “his mouth of broken teeth facing the full moon” and “his bloated hands permeating [his] silence”(Ungaretti). With such frightful word choice, the author certainly emphasizes the horrors of war through the use of his words, and it can be inferred that the speaker feels emotionally in pain from this death witnessed when the soldier elucidates how “he has never been so attached to life”(Ungaretti). Although the speaker may agonize over the death of his comrade, he also feels this connection to life because he potentially could be in the same gruesome position, alive one moment and dead the

In Erich Maria Remarque’s, “All Quiet on the Western Front” the soldiers face fear, hardships, love, trust, and death together during World War 1. The question is, why? All soldiers were clueless to the reason why they had to leave their families, friends, and loved ones, only to return home to suffer from the mental and physical pain afterward. The novel focuses on Paul Baumer who enlists in the German army and experiences the horrors of war while trying to survive in the trenches. “War Some More” by Sandra Osborne connects well with the novel in the sense that war is brutal and brings forth hatred without a solid explanation as to why.

My father and I were traveling in our truck from our house, tired from packing for our trip to our box blind in the woods. We were going hunting for a deer that morning at four A.M. We were nervous feeling the pressure of hunting in our stomachs. It was a cold morning nearly fifty-degrees outside, cold enough that I needed warm clothing. I felt cramped while riding with all of our gear in the cab with us, wishing I could get out and stretch my legs.

Paul felt estranged being back in his hometown with his family. “You are at home, you are at home.” (Remarque, 160) Paul kept saying to himself. After his experiences in the war, he was so affected, that his reality of being at home with his family seemed like a hallucination to him.

And when he stands up by disobeying, he is faced with punishments. Another way Cory’s possession of courage is shown is when he is acceptant of punishments that are directed to him. Troy reached the peak when his son didn’t quit so he never signed the papers allowing Cory to scout out and he also spoke to the coach. This is sort of a form of punishment because he took away something Cory was looking forward to, something he really wanted to do and that thing was then stripped from him making him miserable.

This took so long dude, and i got rolled by my mom last night haha. As much as he was devastated by decision the clan elders made with Ikemefuna, he didn’t want to show anyone that he was weakened by this choice of Ikemefuna to die. The elders to him that he didn’t have to be apart of killing Ikemefuna, but he declined and went with the others to kill him. He did this because he wanted to show everyone that he could lead the clan and that he would make any decisions by emotion.

Suffering does not always change the morals of a person, “Literature depicting suffering also inspires hope and confidence in the resilience of the human spirit” (Cerullo, paragraph 7). Rabbi was one in Night who kept a strong faith throughout all of his suffering, and while his body was getting weaker, his faith remained strong. His faith was one thing that kept him pushing to survive in the harsh conditions of the concentration camps. Wiesel observed that “strangely, his words never provoked anyone. They did bring peace” (Wiesel 90).

Growing up I did not have one single environment like most people did, I was constantly facing new situations and meeting new people. However, there is one environment in my life unlike any other children of my age experienced or ever would, and that is spending most of their childhood at a flea market. I was born in South Texas and raised by a single mother and my grandmother. My family is very small due to the fact the rest of my family lives in a different country, Mexico.

Once Jacob assigned my task he left me to work on it and trusted me. I was so tired and sick that day and he did not even care. I was also not wanting to be a slave no more so I decided to run away because that is what all the others were doing. They were using this things called the “Underground Railroad” or

From the first few pages, it reveals that Second Company has made it out of a battle, losing close to half their men. Soon after, we see a detailed description of Kemmerich’s death, a fellow soldier injured and amputated before the beginning of the story. The way his fellow soldiers reacted, not with apathy yet not with unbridled misery, immediately sets the tone for the book. Other scenes throughout the

The Red Army was indeed coming. The doctor told Elie that the people who were in the infirmary were allowed to stay. Elie 's thoughts were not on death but worry that he and his father would be separated. “As for me, I was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father. We had already been through so much, endured so much together.

Sledge says he stills has nightmares about "the bloody, muddy month of May on Okinawa. " He mentions to us about the filth that they struggled with and how he is puzzled that everyone always forgets to mention that part, because filth and fear went hand in hand. Eugene also tells us about his friendships and bonds that the Marines create together. The strengths of this article was Sledgehammer’s was the proof that he provided.

This supports the answer because Jonas feels alone, and that no one knows what he does. If the community had empathy they could know how he is feeling and try to help him. Another example is on page 112, it