Paul’s analogy between minting coins and the effect of the war on veteran soldiers is a significant event. He explains in a very true manner how he and his friends establish close bonds that far surpass any civilian or ‘peacetime’ friendship. However, those bonds have been established through living through events no person should, and have been somewhat forced, seeing as they have had to stand together after being drafted into the war and stuck
This experience leaves him emotionally wounded by the way that the French solider dies and Paul feels responsible for it. Also, the way that Kemmerich is always carrying around his boots that were brand new and not all torn up like almost every other pair of boots the soldiers were given. Kemmerich treasured his boots greatly and they were his most prized possession (Remarque 11). This, in a way, soothes Kemmerich by reminding him of home and putting him at ease. Both emotional and physical weight can help or hurt people in more ways than one and All Quiet on the Western Front has quite many examples on the
For someone who has never experiences such a scene it is almost unimaginable. The trenches consisted of large pools of muddy waters that were almost like swamps. They also contained numerous dead bodies which have bloated following death and many rats all over the place. However a few positives arise from being stuck within such an unhealthy situation. Junger mentions that with their free time, soldiers would hunt pheasants, try and catch rats with metal traps, and occasionally find dud shells out in no mans land and attempt to explode them using their riffles.
They got this by the way the soldiers stood up in mud and cold water which caused the feet to go numb and give them trench foot. The only way you could stop from getting this was to constantly change your socks but most soldiers ignored this as it was hard to take their shoes off in such agony. Another condition was the rats which were infested with diseases and sometimes could be deadly. The rats lived off dead bodies and sometimes bit sleeping soldiers giving them illnesses. One of the exciting aspects of WW1 was the use of different types of weapons, the main weapon that every soldier had, another weapon was the gases, poison gas which caused blindness and death by choking, mustard gas which killed you instantly if breathed, they stopped using mustard gas though as a lot of soldiers died from it as if they threw it and the wind went the opposite direction they mostly killed themselves!
Conditions of the Trenches The conditions of the trenches in WWI were unbearable. These conditions were unbearable because of the rats and the different gases that were released. Many soldiers died in the trenches due to the conditions, not just from fighting. There were rats down in the trenches. (Remarque 101) The rats ate all of the soldier’s food, and contaminated all of their belongings with droppings.
People who were watching the Hunger Games were getting bored due to the lack of violence. The Game makers decided to make a fire in the arena to shake things up a bit. The fire was where Katniss was and she ran for cover and escaped with nearly a burn mark on her leg that was painful. The fire was used as a means to pull together all the tributes and continue fighting in the
Why almost everyone they loved was getting swept away by the traitorous disease. The symptoms of the Black Death were the worst part. They were extremely painful, emotionally and physically. The Black Death came from fleas, originally from rats that the fleas bit. When the fleas bit the rats they would then go to a human and bite them giving them the horrible disease they so fretfully waited for.
My perspective about the book I thought was really good. I can relate so much to the Su’s dad and family with mine excluding the violence part. Throughout the book, Su was just trying to look for his dad approval. This book game me a deeper appreciation for my parents and especially my dad. They have worked so hard coming to America and giving me everything I have up until now.
The classic anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), directed by Lewis Milestone, has been restored by the Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Centre. Based on the best-selling novel by Erich Maria Remarque, the book and film tell the story of a group of German students who volunteer to fight in the 1914-18 War. It is not a story of heroes, but of ordinary young men trapped in a terrestrial hell; a bitter critique of war that resonates as powerfully today as it did before the next ‘war to end all wars’. All Quiet on the Western Front was not the only film inspired by the First World War. One of the most famous, Abel Gance’s J’accuse (whose title echoes the notorious Dreyfus affair of 1894) appeared in 1919.
PTSD changes the victims’ thoughts, opinions and perspectives on almost everything; it affects not only them but their family and friends. I believe Paul was afraid of this happening to either him or his friends if they were to return home. Throughout the first few chapters, Paul describes how ecstatic everyone, including himself, is for the war. At the end of chapter three, Paul says, “And an old buffer was pleased to describe us as ‘young heroes.’” The soldiers were viewed as heroes; this made them look forward to war. Before soldiers were sent off to war, they were viewed