To what extent was it an act of heroism? His act is mostly an act of heroism. He treats the prisoners nicely because he knows their situations are similar to his; all of them are suffering from the war. Discuss the narrator’s reflections in the funk-hole to killing the brother of one of the prisoners. He imagines how the brother’s mother like when she heard that her two boys were to be together.
Friendly to everyone but wasn’t very close to any of the other men. It was clear that being a platoon leader was too much for him. He tried to act confident and sure, but as later seen the real soldier falls. After Lavender’s death, Jimmy Cross couldn’t live with the fact that he had brought his soldiers to danger. He felt quilt and shame.
The feelings I listed made me infer that something bad was going to happen as the story progressed. 2. What can we infer about Doodle based on his description? What I gathered from the description the narrator gave me about Doodle was that he was weak and disabled but he was also resilient. I use the word resilient because although the doctors, and his parents, and lots of other folks were saying that he can't do this or that; in the end he ended up being successful and completing every task they said that he won't be able to do.
Gregor spirals into the depths of isolation, loneliness and despair. This story bears resemblance to all of Kafka's work which is in a very unusual setting, but very real and present aspects of the darkness of human and behavior. This is indeed a metaphor of absurdity and dehumanization. What made me feel very sorry for him is actually his attempt to get out of bed because he thinks he cannot lose his job otherwise no one will support the family. Kafka uses five pages to describe Gregor tries so hard to get out of bed and persuades his family and the chief clerk he is alright and he is going to work soon.
But like I said earlier, Levi was more ashamed over the fact that he was too focused on survival and realized that they lost his humanity along the way. I think Levi was being too hard on himself. Throughout the rest of the book, his humanity is present through his exchange with other prisoners, his ever-present knowledge, and his insight into others. Although this passage is glaringly honest, I do not think that he completely lost his humanity due to his will to survive. Levi admits that there were times when thought was impossible to ignore, like right before falling asleep.
All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel about World War I. It is narrated by Paul Bäumer, who is the main character. Paul discusses how his life changed instantly after witnessing the horrors of war life. This novel brings up many aspects of the effects of war. The element that really stood out from this novel was how ordinary everyday matters were highlighted.
When actually describing soldiers in a human form, it is only to express despair and regret. He ultimately shows that not thinking about the enemy as a person can help keep a soldier sane. In a Russian prison camp that Paul is helping to guard, he already sees the
Kano's "pity for the ignorance and brutality" of his "own countrymen" and his complete "understanding of the suffering of the prisoners" enabled him to show utmost compassion towards the POWs (Hillenbrand 245-46). Kano defied his elders not because he felt the need to be rebellious, but because he realized the immorality of all the actions occurring, and realized he could be the better person and do his part to help those in need. The actions of Kano consisted of him finding sick men "easy jobs to keep them officially 'at work'" and "[talking] guards into looking the other way" while POWs violated the prison law (245). Kano also "hung blankets" and "scrounged up charcoal" so to heat the rooms and "snuck sick men" from the Japanese doctor and to the POW who was a physician (245). Kano did more than just prove to the POWs that he was a compassionate guard, he possibly saved prisoners from losing their lives due to malnutrition, freezing, and misdiagnosis.
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.
All Quiet on the Western Front: This novel was very interesting and very vivid. Also the novel is so intense and very detail of the lifestyle of war. The way the book is different from the others is by how the novel takes the readers to the war by telling the vivid details and the characters thoughts and also the lifestyle of the characters. The novel tells the story of Paul Baumer, the main character of the story, a soldier who was persuade and urged by his school teacher Kantorek to join the German army shortly after the start of world war 1. Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.