Wednesday, August 3, 2011

From Emma Welp

In All Quiet On The Western Front  we discover and learn about the German soldiers who fought,lived,and suffered in the trenches. In these heart wrenching moments of their lives of war and literally fighting for their lives we learn that most of these men are hardly men at all. They are hardly over nineteen years of age and don't know what they have gotten themselves into. But the men that have been there for awhile identify themselves as the older wiser men to help the young men that have been recruited and to teach them the skills that they will need to save their lives. The main character Paul Baumer is one of these wiser men on the trenches with his six other fellow group members. One thing that was followed throughout the book is that you stick together. As when Paul was lost out in the trenches Kat and Albert went looking for him and brought a stretcher. Also when Paul and Albert where hit during a shelling  and went to the dressing station together they decided to stick together and go to the Catholic hospital together. The author presented the plot in an orderly way starting from beginning to end. Giving detail to the reader and making it easy to imagine and draw a picture to the things the soldiers went through. I think one arguement that the author Erich Maria Remarque presents is what is the point of sending these young men whose eyes do not deserve to see things such as they do in war. Who they cry for their mothers and to go home to be in no harm. Also Paul didn't like going on leave because it would remind him of what he was missing and returning to the camps he would feel at home. For now home was the trenches where he knew what was around him and going on beside him. I also think it would be extremely hard to be in the trenches and see horrified things then go home on leave for a couple of weeks. I feel my mind would be like Paul's and be thinking of how my fellow group members are doing and what is going on out their. I also think it was be very hard to not know exactly what is going to happen. Are the French going to attack? Will I be alive tomorrow? Will I eat today?There is hundreds of questions that run through their mind everyday. These simple things of food and water today we forget of all the things that the soldiers of trench warfare went through for their loved ones.

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