Tintin falls asleep for a short amount of time and wakes up to find the lifeboat on fire and Haddock drunk. When Tintin tries to extinguish the fire, Haddock gets angry and pushes Tintin, capsizing the boat. Suddenly, a seaplane attacks them with machine guns. Tintin takes a shot at the plane with a handgun which miraculously stops the engine and the pilots are forced to land on the water. As the pilots are fixing the plane Tintin and Haddock sneak up on them, hijack the plane after it is fixed, tie them up, and set course for Spain.
In chapter six it starts out with the men discussing a possible offensive against them, meanwhile all of them are in the trenches which are in horrible shape, which are filed with huge rats. The soldiers are all tired and worn down and their leader ,Kat, shows it in his face as well. One night after an earth bomb shakes their trench area a young recruit that seems uneasy and yells at Paul then walks out of the trenches, this showed the toll war does on a man. The same day the men are attacked by the French and attacked bad, Paul described it and says “ We have become wild beasts. We do not fight, we defend ourselves from annihilation”.
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarqueis a book about a German soldier Paul Bäumer and some of his friends from school who joined the army voluntarily after their teacher talked about joining the war. The group of nineteen year olds started the war with a great sense of nationalism and enthusiasm, but after experiencing ten weeks of hard training from Corporal Himmelstoss and the brutality of life on the front. Paul and his friends realize that the reasons of for which they enlisted are simply meaningless after some time on the front. Also, Paul and his friend realize that war is not as glorious or honorable as it is made out to be, and constantly lived in strain both mental and physical.
Throughout All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul and some of his comrades wonder why they’re fighting a war that they have no relation to. Furthermore, that doesn’t give them a sabbatical for going home, even though they aspire to go home to their families. In the book, Paul and the other soldiers are taught that the country they are fighting against is their enemy, and whenever they are to approach any of the “enemies” they are to tranquilize them promptly. Just because you are fighting against a country that you believe is atrocious or corrupt, doesn’t mean that an individual on that side is in that manner. Nevertheless, a book should not be judged by a cover.
Remarque’s Remark Remarque took a gamble in writing a war novel that articulates the truth about the pragmatic images of war: gruesome, and specifically dedicated his book, All Quiet on the Western Front, to World War I and the sheer horror of being on the scopeline of the enemy. Until this novel was published in 1929, the concept of war was highly praised but almost taboo to talk about in a public setting; All Quiet on the Western Front not only uncovered all the dark “secrets” about war but started a revolution of literature, allowing the truth about war to be told. This war novel was written to depict the true images of war, up until this point, everyone talked about war hesitantly in hushed voices as if it was a curse to mention the word “war”. Remarque’s novel was written “simply to tell of a generation of men who…were destroyed by the
“This book is not to be an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure… it is simply to tell of a generation of men, who even though they escaped shells, were destroyed by war” ( Remarque i ). In the novel the themes horror of war is prominently in the novel. In the novel mostly of every scene includes either some graphic description or a well- detailed portrayal of how horrific war can be if one is a soldier. Remarque incorporated this theme because he felt the need to write a book that showed people the effects of war and how it if affected the soldiers. By doing this the audience is able to get a strong idea on how war is.
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque poses many questions throughout the story including why an enemy soldier can cause grief. The French soldier Gérard Duval is significant to All Quiet on the Western Front because he changes the perception of the enemy by being an idea, an almost lifeless body, and a single name that all cause grief without speaking a single word. When Gérard Duval is first introduced, he is plunging into the trench that Paul Baumer is in. He is not portrayed as a person at first, instead being “steps [that] hasten over [him]...a body [that] falls over [him]” because he is fearful of his life and soon after, Paul stabs him without thinking about who he is(Remarque 216). Remarque uses non-specific nouns
What I found most interesting about chapter twenty-one was how the great war shock the world. The great war of 1914-1918 was of the greatest shock the war took killing millions of soldier and not yet enough around another seven million civilians who perished from persecution, disease or starvation. This was horrifying moment for everyone because the industrial revolution was kicking each other’s assess. Every country wanted to be the best and everyone was trying to play their cards right. Pretty much a battle of the most creative whoever had the newest and most advanced theologies to fight the other countries.
War carries important morals that heighten the perspective of men and women on their nation, but it also entails many acts and experiences that leave lasting effects on their emotional and physical state. Throughout the following texts, Paul Baumer, the dead soldiers, and Kiowa’s comrades all sustain losses that compel them to persevere and fight harder. All Quiet on the Western Front, Poetry of the Lost Generation, and an excerpt from In the Field all connect to the recurring theme, horrors of war, that soldiers face everyday on the front line through the continuous battle. War involves gruesome battles, many of which lead to death, but these events forever affect the soldier’s mind and body. In All Quiet on the Western Front, men experience horrific sights, or horrors of war, through the depiction of the terrain, death, and the
Due to this, the topic of war has been present in them for thousands of years. Books like All Quiet On the Western Front tore down the romanticised depiction of war that were commonly thrown around before the mechanized slaughter that was brought about in the 20th. This book and the brutality portrayed within, make people think twice about war and the consequences of all those involved. The anti-war sentiment is show by Remarque and his personal experiences in WWI in All Quiet On the Western Front, “We are not youth any longer.
War has not changed over the years. The reason we fight in wars has stayed the same for over many decades. To keep our freedom and keep the peace. The general reason we went to war in WW1 and in the Afghanistan was the same. We wanted to keep our people safe and keep the peace.
Personal Change Through Experience People in their lives are pushed, challenged, met with difficult decisions and go through strenuous ordeals which will form and develop their beliefs, values and how they perceive the world. The novels All Quiet on the Western Front and Purple Hibiscus share these similar themes through the novels. All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, is a War novel about the physical and mental challenges of a young German man who volunteers to join up into the military to fight in World War One. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a fiction novel involving a young girl, her brother, her abusive, demanding father who controls her and her family’s life, the stress and pain it brings
Entry 1- The book starts off about a couple of kids who were born and raised on the streets they are trying to make a better place. The three boys George, Rameck, and Sampson clean the street by picking up trash and fixing the broken benches with Sampson’s brother Andre. Sampson breaks his foot after dropping concrete on it during his attempt to move a concrete slab with Andre.
Protagonist (Max and Freak) : Maxwell Kane (Max) and Kevin Avery (Freak) are the two main protagonists in this novel. Maxwell Kane is a tall twelve year old boy who has a learning disability in school. He often gets bullied about his dad who had choked his mother to death and went to prison. He lives with his grandparents Grim and Gram who often takes very nice care of him.
I would like to note that I will frame this short essay as a supplement to my much more thorough research paper on a related topic. Here, I will give a narrower, and more condensed version that will primarily focus on themes of suffering and pride of the German people. The essay will mostly concentrate on the period of allied victory and occupation of Germany, as well as the period of the Federal Republic of Germany. The purpose of this essay will be to examine the effects and implications these two events of the 20th century had on the German people, and how the themes of pride and suffering can be inferred from those two events. Let us start with the themes of pride.
