did not want to talk about the war at all.”(Hemingway 187). While embracing the comforts of home, Harold Krebs begins to ponder the experience of war. He refuses to accept fact and reality that the war was over and he has come home. The life he once knew, his family, and community has not changed. As a personal struggle, Harold Krebs begins to reflect and desire the activities of war and fierce battle.
He sees the world in very dark and angry terms, his terms. Mainly because of his mother’s death from cancer when he was young and because of that and all the change it had brought on in his life, Lee is not willing to change or to listen to anyone. His character morphs and matures throughout the book, but the changes are very subtle. The reader mainly notices the changes when Lee does something that he would not have done before he moved, just like his volunteering to help someone or figuring out the consequences of his actions. The Blue Helmet reminds the reader that all actions have consequences, and that you must take responsibility for your actions and the final consequences.
As he soon realized, Johnny could not work almost any other job, except for jobs he did not care for, like butchering. Soon after, he stopped living with the Lapham’s and set out on his own. Finally, Johnny found work at the Boston Observer, which was a newspaper press. He delivered papers, and because the Boston Observer was involved in the Sons of Liberty, a patriotic rebellious group, he almost acted as a spy. It was extremely hard to learn to ride horse-back with a crippled hand, but as he learned it taught him patience.
The Author is portraying a period of time in the young men’s lives where they are still naïve about the trappings of war. These young men still believe that life will go on as normal and that war will not have a lasting impact on their lives. The soldiers continue to be happy and hopeful about their future. As soon as Kemmerich died it came as a reality check for these young men that the war was not as great or ideological as it first appeared. Little did they know Kemmerich’s death marked the beginning of lost hope.
Next, the public begins to doubt Colin and his endeavors. He understands that no impact man
Even more impactful to Paul’s experience, perhaps in a negative way, are Paul’s journeys home during the war. Throughout the novel Paul’s longing to return home dominates much of the novel’s narration. Paul consistently yearns for the years and experiences of adolescence that precede his experiences in the war, but when he encounters them both on leave and as a result of his injury, he rejects them. He quickly recognizes that “the world of our parents [is] a thing incomprehensible to us” (122). Home for Paul, and his romantic notions of it, is destroyed when he recognizes his own incompatibility with society due to his experiences in war.
Bledsoe says to the narrator greatly help move the plot of the novel. First, the narrator sees that Dr. Bledsoe is not who he thought he was. The narrator once looked up to Dr. Bledsoe because he thought Dr. Bledsoe got to where he is through hard work, not by manipulating and going against what he likes. The narrator lost the only idol he had, and in a sense is now all alone. He has nobody to look up to or to get advice from.
James does not remember a good deal about the war and it's soon clear he has Post-traumatic Stress. His loving wife, mother, and best friend provide support, but they cannot fully understand the pain and sorrow he feels since his tour of duty ended in Iraq. In The Dry Land, James shows every sign of having PTSD, but he does not know how to handle and control himself. Everyone he was close to expected things to go right back to normal when he returned home, but the complete opposite actually happened. In multiple scenes of the movie, James would hide his pain and distress by drinking alcohol.
I found that I had no patience for it, it was far too depressing and boring, but I suppose that back then I was too naïve to truly understand the depth of it. Now that I’ve picked it back up, it made me realize how terrible humans can be to each other and the scarring effects war can have on someone. Remarque weaves a masterpiece reflected by his personal experiences and brings the pain of the Western Front into the hearts and minds of the reader. The book starts out with the introduction of a young Paul Bäumer. At first, he seems like a normal young man.
War is never a pretty thing. We’re separated by the ones we love, lose the ones we care about, and forget who we were before it all began. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, it proves just that when a group of soldier’s lives are completely turned around due to the effects of war. The narrator and protagonist of the book Paul Baumer, persuaded by his schoolmaster Kantorek, volunteers for the war at the tender age of nineteen with friends Kropp, Muller and Leer, hoping to be considered courageous once he joins the war. Kantorek often calls them the iron youth because he describes their efforts as brave and heroic.