Essays Tagged: "Paul Bäumer"
This is a book report of All Quiet on the Western Front, by Maria Remarque, on of the best War novels of all time.
to change the popular belief that war is an idealistic and romantic character.The story centers on Paul Baumer, who enlists in the German army with glowing enthusiasm. But in the course of war, he is ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Cause of Death. Speaks of Erich Maria Remarque's "All quiet on the western front"
world warwhere many men and women died because someone called them theenemy. The main character is Paul Baumer, a nineteen year old man whois swept into the war, along with his friends, not one day b ... is outof school. They are sent to the front to 'protect the fatherland' orGermany as it is called. Paul and his friends go from this idealisticopinion to disillusionment throughout the book as they d ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
This essay in on "Paul's changes through out all Quiet on the Western Front" describing traits of Paul Baumer that changed during the war.
life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow...." said by Paul Baumer during his time at war in All Quiet on the Western Front. This quote represents how the ... the Western Front. This quote represents how the war changed Paul's view and attitude toward life. Paul, a once hopeful, sensitive boy, enlisted into the war right out of school, faced traumatizing e ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
How does war change society and politics?
ought by the war onto one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque's protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent romantic young man to a hardened and somewhat caustic ve ... remature and distorted maturity with the war...their only home. Throughout the length of the novel, Paul learns of the hardship war brings. He learns the destructiveness of war.During the course of hi ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security
"All Quiet on the Western Front"--How Does Remarque achieve the goal she set for himself in the prologue?
, "for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it." Through the character of Paul Baumer, Remarque illustrates these recurring themes and the effects of the war on the Lost Gene ... oldiers will kill men exactly like them for no other reason than they are from a different country. Paul displays this characteristic in the Gerald Duval incident. "I do not think at all, I make no de ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque.
eally wants to die, and no body can honestly admit they are not at least a little bit scared of it. Paul Baumer was. He was terrified of it. Death was an end for him, as it is for everybody, but death ... man apart from his emotional side that wanted to burst any second with endless tears. Death showed Paul how to live. How ironic that Death can show a man how to live. Paul realized how to change into ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Timothy Findley's "The Wars" and Erich Remarques "All Quiet on the Western Front".
dered by many to be two of the best novels ever written on The Great War. The novels revolve around Paul Baumer, a 19-year-old German, and Robert Ross, a 19-year-old Canadian, going off to fight in Th ... ation, a suicide, and lastly, the characters' own deaths.The first up-close death of the enemy that Paul Baumer takes part in is that of a French soldier. Before this experience, he has gotten used to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Compairing "war and peace" to "all quite on the western front"
wrought by the war on one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque's protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to a hardened and somewhat caustic veteran. Mor ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. The use of camaraderie throughout the text.
things in life get unbearable. Friendship is the strongest bond any group of people can share, and Paul Baumer is not a person to object to that. He is a boy that needs his friends to help him surviv ... r begins his story with his friends by his side, and as the war progresses, he loses them all. When Paul is offered to return home for a short couple weeks, he jumps at the opportunity. However, durin ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
All Quiet on the Western Front
s wrought by the war onone young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque'sprotagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to ahardened and somewhat caustic veteran. More ... arque, All Quiet VII. 141). But finally she doesspeak to him and asks, "'Was it very bad out there, Paul?'" (Remarque,All Quiet VII. 143).Here, when he answers, he lies, ostensibly to protect her from ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II
War Equals Change
War is a devastating concept that hurts people both physically and mentally. Paul Baumer, in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, is an example of this inner t ... All Quiet on the Western Front, is an example of this inner turmoil caused by the First World War. Paul changes in his personality, his attitude towards his home-life, his attitude towards war, and h ... attitude towards death, which causes him to give up in the end.Throughout the novel, Remarque takes Paul, the main character from an optimistic romantic to a cynical soldier, to someone who looks forw ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Base Instinct? A report on All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
depend on their survival instincts because of a nation's need to justify its expansion. In the book Paul Baumer and his friends are pressured into joining a war in which they will be emotionally scarr ... rrest if he liked. So I double back, and then march up to him"] Due to the limitations of his post, Paul Baumer is forced to renounce his already lack-luster pride in order to keep his current "vacati ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I
All quiet on the Western Front
wrought by the war on one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque's protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocentRomantic to a hardened and somewhat caustic veteran. More ... arque, All Quiet VII. 141). But finally she does speak to him and asks, "'Was it very bad out there,Paul?'" (Remarque, All Quiet VII. 143). Here, when he answers, he lies, ostensibly to protect her fr ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
All quiet on the western front
wrought by the war on one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque's protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to a hardened and somewhat caustic veteran. Mor ... rque, All Quiet VII. 141). But finally she does speak to him and asks, "'Was it very bad out there, Paul?'" (Remarque, All Quiet VII. 143). Here, when he answers, he lies, ostensibly to protect her fr ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Paul Baumer
All Quiet on the Western Front is written by Paul Baumer, a nineteen year old German who fights in the German army on the French front in World W ... r teacher, Kantorek. But after experiencing ten weeks of brutal training from Corporal Himmelstoss. Paul and his friends have realized that the ideals of nationalism and patriotism for which they enli ... no longer believe that war is glorious or honorable, and they live in constant physical terror.When Paul's company receives a short reprieve after two weeks of fighting, only eighty men of the origina ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
All Quiet on the Western Front: How entering war at an early age can change a person.
Paul Baumer is the protagonist in All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque. Pa ... shown by his thoughts, actions, and the conversations that he contributes in. One way that Paul changes is that his patriotism towards his country about war decreases. Paul is sitting with hi ... t they are all the same. They are just soldiers fighting for their countries and eager to get home. Paul's experience in combat changes his thoughts of war. Because of this, he gains the ability to re ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT summary and reflection
ront is about the German warfront during World War One. The traumatic tale of battle is narrated by Paul Baumer, a young soldier in the German infantry. He and his school friends have been urged to en ... orified entering the war effort and saving the fatherland.The story is set on the front lines where Paul and his friends are fighting for survival. As a result of the tragedies and deaths that they se ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
"All Quiet on the Western Front" (based on movie).
ntry. After all, they assumed, the war shouldn't take so long and they'll be coming back home fast. Paul Baumer is fascinated by the sabre being worked up by his professor and along with his congruous ... the end of the film Katczinsky had always said the war would not be over until they would kill him. Paul returns from leave, finds him looking for food in the forest for his men and returns back to ca ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Demolition of a Soul: "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque.
s own way out, heedless of the will that is within me.The last words of the novel's main character, Paul Baumer, who once was a compassionate and sensitive young man, entirely reflects the gruesome ef ... destroyed by the war". From that perspective, the book is merely a retelling of events that destroy Paul and thousands of other young men mentally, rather than physically.In the early chapters, Remarq ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"All Quiet on the Western Front"
to change the popular belief that war is an idealistic and romantic character. The story centers on Paul Baumer, who enlists in the German army with glowing enthusiasm. But in the course of war, he is ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature