War World I was a long, tough battle that took place in 1914 and ended in 1918. This war was thought to be a quick and simple war, but it was the exact opposite. The war began due to trouble in the Balkans. In the Balkans, nationalism fueled Slavic people’s desire for their own independent countries, while Austria, Russia, and Turkey all competed to dominate the Balkans. This war was believed to be the worst of them all, until World War II happened. Being in a war can take a toll on your body mentally and physically and demoralize you. Young individuals are being sent off into the services with a romantic and disillusioned view towards putting themselves on the front line. Young individuals are also portraying themselves as tough and
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In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, the novel portrayed what it was really like for young men to go to the front line right out of high school. While some of the novel may not be true or very dramatic, what Erich Maria Remarque writes through the novel is somewhat based upon true stories because he served in the war and experienced many things as a young man. The novel, indicated great effects of war on the young individual soldiers and indicated what they experienced.
Erich Maria Remarque indicated great effects of the war on the young individual soldiers. In the novel, Remarque created a main character named Paul Baumer. Paul was a young man who had just graduated high school and got diploid to the front line. Before entering Paul disillusioned the war by imagining to be back home within no time and for his time serving to be great. “ We were still crammed full of vague ideas which gave to life, and to the war also ideal and …show more content…
What the young men had to experience was seeing their friends and acquaintances die right in front of them and lose feelings for things that once meant so much to them. The young men had to realize that once they got back home, they would not have a life nor a job, while those who were elder and already had a life prior and that also had work experience before entering the war were more capable of going back possibly to a job and to a somewhat normal life once they were done serving. The hardest part for the young men that they experienced and had to overcome was thinking they had nothing to lose since they had nothing to go home to. As for Paul, while he was serving he came home on leave to find his mother deathly ill from cancer. When he was home he realized that nothing could ever be the same to him in that household, his books were not the same, his room was not the same, and even the town did not feel the same to him. Remarque wrote, “ I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books,” ( Remarque, 115). Paul had to overcome growing up very fastly and losing all feelings for things that at one point in his life meant everything to him. When he went back to the war he had already made his mind up that he did not want to return home again since his mother had passed away and nothing would
In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, the novel portrayed what it was really like for young men to go to the front line right out of high school. While some of the novel may not be true or very dramatic, what Erich Maria Remarque writes through the novel is somewhat based upon true stories because he served in the war and experienced many things as a young man. The novel, indicated great effects of war on the young individual soldiers and indicated what they experienced.
Erich Maria Remarque indicated great effects of the war on the young individual soldiers. In the novel, Remarque created a main character named Paul Baumer. Paul was a young man who had just graduated high school and got diploid to the front line. Before entering Paul disillusioned the war by imagining to be back home within no time and for his time serving to be great. “ We were still crammed full of vague ideas which gave to life, and to the war also ideal and …show more content…
What the young men had to experience was seeing their friends and acquaintances die right in front of them and lose feelings for things that once meant so much to them. The young men had to realize that once they got back home, they would not have a life nor a job, while those who were elder and already had a life prior and that also had work experience before entering the war were more capable of going back possibly to a job and to a somewhat normal life once they were done serving. The hardest part for the young men that they experienced and had to overcome was thinking they had nothing to lose since they had nothing to go home to. As for Paul, while he was serving he came home on leave to find his mother deathly ill from cancer. When he was home he realized that nothing could ever be the same to him in that household, his books were not the same, his room was not the same, and even the town did not feel the same to him. Remarque wrote, “ I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books,” ( Remarque, 115). Paul had to overcome growing up very fastly and losing all feelings for things that at one point in his life meant everything to him. When he went back to the war he had already made his mind up that he did not want to return home again since his mother had passed away and nothing would