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All Quiet On The Western Front: "The Cause Of Death" - Term Papers

All Quiet On The Western Front: "The Cause Of Death"



Erich Maria Remarque's ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT is a very
interesting and true-to-heart novel based in the first world war where
many men and women died because someone called them the enemy. The main
character is Paul Baumer, a nineteen year old man who is swept into the
war, along with his friends, not one day before he is out of school. They
are sent to the front to "protect the fatherland" or Germany as it is
called. Paul and his friends go from this idealistic opinion to
disillusionment throughout the book as they discover the truth that the
enemy is just like them, and Paul's friends start being killed one-by-one.
This novel is a gripping account of how war is most of the ...

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the loss of
Paul's innocence.

The change from idealism to disillusionment is really the driving
force behind the novel. From young school boys, listening to their
schoolmaster asking "Won't you join up comrades?"(11) to "weary,
broken"(294) men, idealism and disillusionment play a major role on Paul's
decisions and thoughts. For example, on the second page of the novel,
Paul says, "It would not be such a bad war if only one could get a little
more sleep." (2) Later in the book, a disillusioned Paul says of the same
war, "I see how people are set against one another and in silence,
unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another."(263)
Even though he has been in the war two years, the first quote shows how
Paul's idealism is still strong. In the second quote, Paul sees the war
for what it truly is, a waste of time, food, money, and young men. The
scar of war left a deep gash in the mind of Paul Baumer.

The loss of Paul's friends was a factor ...

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Added: 2/5/2007 03:42:16 PM
Category: Book Reports
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