All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque used Paul Baumer to narrate his work All Quiet on the Western Front. A young man of 19 fights for the German army on the French front in World War I. Paul and several of his school friends voluntarily joined the army after listening to the stirring patriotic speeches of their teacher, Kantorek. As all of Paul's friends die on the French front, Paul realized to survive the agony of the war; one must disconnect oneself from emotions like grief, sympathy, and fear. Then in October of 1918, Paul dies alone on the battlefield; with a calm composure of being relieved, the end has come at last. In All Quiet on the Western Front, there is a passage about the soldier's relationship with the earth as the soldiers receive bombardment from the French. Here the soldiers realized that they have been lucky until now and the earth is the only thing that offers them protection from the shells. Remarque used literary tools to invoke emotions of fear, pain and respect from the reader. Fling, which is to move in a brusque or headlong manner, describes how the soldiers on the front were jumping into the crevices of the earth for protection. This movement paints a picture of urgency, fear, and shows that the so
Just as the soldiers feared dying from the shells of the French, "...Carried away by the fury of the storm..." vividly describes how the front line soldiers lived in the trenches. The continuous shelling from the French army stole the lives of the army, little by little. With these words, the sounds of the shelling become evident because everyone has been through an enormous storm and knows fear instilled by a storm. The writer uses "the fury of the storm" to show the fierceness of the shelling. One can hear how fierce a storm is just as; the soldiers too can hear how fierce the shelling is. As a fierce storm could easily pick anything up, Remarque wants the visual of how easily the soldiers' lives can be taken away by the shelling. ldiers were not concerned with where they landed, as long as they got down on the ground as quickly as possible. As war raged on and more people died from continual attacks, the sound of bellowing death, to make the loud deep hollow sound characteristic of a bull, becomes that much more powerful. This is another great example of diction because it describes the sound of the oncoming shells as a deep resounding boom. For instance, the picture that comes to mind from hearing bellowing death is of a large man with a shotgun roaring at a person that annoys him. This is better because different visuals come from bellowing death, but the others, there is not much variation. The overall tone of this passage is deep profound love towards the earth, from the front line soldiers. In the first p
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Approximate Word count = 1045
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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