The Lost Generation
During World War I, many of the men who fought were only about nineteen years young. These men experienced horrors beyond belief in a matter of years, which is ten times worse than a normal man experiences his whole life. This generation of men, from 1914-1918, who fought in a great war and lived in constant fear of their last breathe, while we enjoy parties, the freedom of being a teenager, and able just to kick back and enjoy life at its prime. This is the lost generation. As tensions grew in Europe during the early twentieth century young teenagers throughout were going to grade school and enjoying life to its fullest. Little do these children know that in a matter of years they will be fighting in one of the most gruesome wars in history. While they were in school the leaders of Europe were contemplating the thought of war and forming alliances. Many people thought that if they went to war, it would be over and done with before they knew it. The people who said this were the lucky ones; they didn't have to fight in it. The kids who did fight in it didn't know what to expect. They were taken from their sheltered homes and thrown into unimaginable chaos. World War I should never have b
Through the book All Quiet on the Western Front, it tells all the horrors of war. It also tells of comradeship and the lost generation. Baumer states, "I can not bear to look at his hands, they are like wax. Under the nails is the dirt of the trenches, it shows through blue black like poison. It strikes me that these nails will continue to grow like lean fantastic cellarplants long after Kemmerich breathes his last."(15) Could you imagine seeing this during a lifetime, but all at the age of nineteen. In the book, Paul sees all his friends meet their demise, in the end Paul dies himself. The survival rate in the war was extremely low. The men went to sleep every night not knowing if it would be their last night on the planet. The passage that best represents the lost generation is when Baumer states; "I am very quiet. Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has born me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me." (295) Paul is saying the war has deprived him of so much that there is no more to take. He has been through war so long that he is no longer afraid, he has given up inside and is waiting for the pe
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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