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  • Franz Kemmerich A Childhood Friend Of Baumer
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    KEY LITERARY ELEMENTS 1. SETTING All Quiet On The Western Front is set during World War I, behind the German frontlines where Paul Baumer is assigned. The setting weaves back and forth between the war front and the camp where Baumer stays. Once during the novel, Baumer goes home on leave, but the setting quickly reverts to the war front. The only other setting in the novel is in the hospital. LIST OF CHARACTERS Major Characters Paul Baumer The narrator of the novel. He is a young German infantry...
  • Quote From Paul About Kat
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    World War I was one of the greatest military conflicts of all time. During this time of great death and destruction men came together and formed support groups. In Pauls group as in most groups there emerges a single leader, someone who can guide and protect its members. Katczinsky was the leader of Pauls intermediate group of friends. This is a quote from a literary analysis of the book Kat is such an intermediate figure; an army veteran, he stands out as the classic soldier-representative of c...
  • Remarque Through The Eyes Of Paul Baumer
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    All Quiet on the Western Front is a historical war novel written by Erich Maria Remarque. It is set during World War I on the battlefields on the western front of the war, between France and Germany. The book explores the lives and deaths of men who fight the war and how it tears them apart. The story is told through the eyes of Paul Baumer, a young man who fights for the German army and had joined with a few of his class mates before the war. From the very beginning of the book we see the horro...
  • Words Of Baumer's Comrades
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    Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel set in World War I, centers around the changes 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. More importantly, during the course of this metamorphosis, Baumer disaffiliates himself from those societal icons-parents, elders, school, religion-that had been the foundation of his pre-enlis...
  • Coldness Of War To Baumer
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    All Quiet on the Western Front Critique In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, writes of the reality of war, and its psychological impact on the soldiers that lived through WWI. Through his character Paul Baumer, we see how the cruelty, chaos, and violence of War, can begin to degenerate his state of mind. All Quiet on the Western Front, is the story of Paul Baumer during World War I. Paul Baumer is a German student in high school when he and his friends join the War after bein...
  • Words Of Baumer's Comrades
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    All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel set in World War I, based around the changes formed by the war on one young German soldier. During his time in the war, the main character, Paul Baumer, changes from an innocent boy to a hardened veteran. More importantly, during the course of this change, Baumer outcasts himself from those societal influences that has been the base of his life before the war. This rejection comes as a result of Baumer's realization that the pre-enlistment society does not...
  • Life Of Paul Baumer
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    Beth Turcotte January 19, 2000? I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow?? All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, is a vividly horrific verification of what went on at the front of World War I. It goes deep into the souls of the men that were sent out to? heroically? fight for their country. It follows the lives of these men, young and old, that were forced to turn fro...
  • Baumer The Sense Of Home
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    All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Remarque is a novel dealing with one young mans transformation from an average person into a hardened man that eventually turns away from the society that he once was a part of. Remarque wrote this novel to emphasize the disorder and chaos that is created in war. This sense of disorder was felt within the soldiers as well as the civilians that have no part in the fighting. Civilians often had a glamorous portrayal of war that was preached to many ...
  • All Quiet On The Western Front Author
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    All Quiet On The Western Front Report All Quiet On The Western Front Report On Historical Fiction Name of Book: All Quiet on the Western Front Author: Erich Maria Remarque Publisher: Ballantine Books Date you started book: Date you completed book: 1. In what period of history did the story take place? The story told in All Quiet on the Western Front occurs during the two years just before the Armistice ended World War I in November 1918.2. Who was the hero in the book? Paul Baumer 3. Name One Pr...
  • Paul Baumer And Archy
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    All Quiet On The Western Front / Gallipoli Essay, All Quiet On The Western Front / Gallipoli The Only Difference Is The Uniform All Quiet On The Western Front and Gallipoli are two stories independent of each other that chronicle the experiences of two separate young men in the same war. Paul Baumer, a nineteen-year old German soldier, narrates the story of All Quiet On The Western Front. This tragic story begins with Baumer in training camp and concludes with his untimely death. Archy, an eight...

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