It's been about 168 hours, which would mark a full week since I left my home and Mother to fight for my country. The year is 1914 and it is the 28th of september it has been about two months since the the Great War started. Back home in Loudon all the old timers think this is the war that will end all wars. Me personally I don't know if it will end any conflict, I do hope it does though. I haven’t even seen any major battles yet but as my battalion and I keep moving to the front lines we see the destruction, the death, the chaos that this war has inflicted upon all of Europe. Just yesterday as my battalion which is 2nd battalion and another battalion which is 4th battalion were moving east to support the troops on the front lines we saw it. …show more content…
It’s is a different feeling when the ground rumbles and shakes from the incoming and outgoing heavy guns. Speaking of heavy guns on our way to the trenches me and my company got the pleasure of seeing our heavy guns up close. I think that it brought a good feeling to everyone that knew they were getting backed up by those immense field artillery. As we approached the trenches two of the soldiers in my company got hit by a flying projectile. Know one really knew where it came from, I mean considering that there is constant chaotic bullet fire on both sides it could of been a sniper. That is a eerie feeling not knowing if there is a sniper or snipers that watch the reinforcements go into the trenches. What does the sniper just chose out of all your fellow soldiers who is gonna die today. Anyways we were told that me and my squad will spend the next four days on the front lines. How are we gonna do it. After we spend four days here we go to a reserves camp and then rotate back in. It seems like all of the men have gone through hell, even more than hell. I keep telling myself that I need to keep my head down and get home to my mom. It will be in three months that I will finally go back home. I need to get back home and soon I already hate it here and three months is gonna be too long. There is so much death, diseases, hatred, and hate. Hate for the enemy side and hatred for cause of everyone's suffering here. As a child I never really cared about the sundays me and my parents took to go to church. Now it's all I can think about. I think of god and of the miracles that i’m praying
plot of the novell itself. He offen does this by describing the death of Paul's
The chapter begins with German soldiers at rest after fourteen days of fierce battle on the Western Front. A double ration of food has been prepared so the soldiers are eating their fill. Paul Baumer, the protagonist and narrator of the novel, watches in amazement as his friends, Tjaden and Muller, eat another helping; he wonders where Tjaden puts all the food, for he is as thin as a rail. Baumer is only nineteen years of age. He enlisted in the German infantry because Kantorek, his high school teacher, had glorified war and talked him into fighting for the fatherland. Kropp, Behm, and Leer, former classmates of Baumer, were also persuaded by Kantorek to join the infantry. They are all now fellow soldiers along with Tjaden, Westhus, Detering, and Katczinsky.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque is a first hand experience account of the war. The horror of the war and Remarque's own terrifying experiences and memories would certainly have effected what he wrote. All Quiet on the Western Front was published in March 1929, London. The late publication of the novel may have been due to the grief and trauma that Remarque experienced in the war.
The greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, is a novel that depicted the hardships of a group of teenagers who enlisted in the German Army during World War 1. Enlisting right out of high school forced the teens to experience things they had never thought of. From the life of a soilder on the front line to troubles with home life, war had managed to once again destroy a group of teenagers.
I miss you very much. Since the last I wrote to you, it was awful. I hate it here. The trench we are currently in is old and worse than the one we were placed in before. The aroma here is very unpleasant. At times I feel as if I will become deafened by the constant sound of shells, being fired back and forth. It's always dark here, the sky is always filled with big black clouds. I miss it back home where the sky was blue and the clouds were white. Last time we left the trenches we marched 15 miles with not a lot of water, no food and the weather was very bad.Things are hard to describe but even harder to deal with. I haven't experienced anything as awful as this before. Life at home was so peaceful before this whole tragedy happened. We barely
Imagine being in an ongoing battle where friends and others are dying. All that is heard are bullets being shot, it smells like gas is near, and hearts race as the times goes by. This is similar to what war is like. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the narrator, Paul Baumer, and his friends encounter the ideals of suffering, death, pain, and despair. There is a huge change in these men; at the beginning of the novel they are enthusiastic about going into the war. After they see what war is really like, they do not feel the same way about it. During the war the men experience many feelings especially the loss of loved ones. These feelings are shown through their first experience at training camp, during the actual battles, and in the hospital.
Detering – A married farmer, he is disgusted that horses are being used in the war.
Is it really worth it? Is the simple order by a superior officer enough for someone to spill the blood of innocent soldiers? In All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a group of soldiers learn the hard way about the realities of war. They encounter trench warfare and hand-to-hand combat and slowly see how horrible the war is. Using the book, the author expresses his hatred towards war and how only evil comes from it. The emotions and actions of the soldiers represent the realities of war where brotherhoods are formed, the public is tricked in seeing war as good, and how deep inside everyone is the same.
All Quiet on the Western Front is the most superb World War I motion picture. The movie had a budget of $1.25 million (which was very expensive at the time) and runs 128 minutes long giving enough time to capture the horrors of war perfectly. The Great War was the subject for many movies during the late 1930’s and early 1940’s, most offering a serious and very emotional time for the audience. It’s no coincidence that two of the first three Best Picture Oscars were awarded to World War I movies. Even though the movie is dated for this day in age, the battle scenes are still as emotional and bone chilling. Director Lewis Milestone’s attention to detail plays a major role when filming trench scenes and because of this, it makes it hard to realize that the film was actually filmed in California and not in Germany or France.
Dark clouds settled above, forever watching the monstrous scene forming below. Flashes of lightning lit up the caliginous sky, a temporary false dawn. Rain moulded the once solid ground into a sodden, quagmire mess. War was the worst at night; when the fear of whistling bombs deprived soldiers of sleep and dreams of drowning in a green sea caused their hearts to palpitate. It was then, that they were left with their undesired thoughts. Waiting, watching, for the next barrage. The men sat silent and still; their thoughts repressing them from distant rest. Their eyes were empty sockets, stripped raw by the weight of their experiences in war. Settled amongst the soldiers on the Western Front, a distinctively younger boy stood out from the rest, eyes vibrant, ardent for some desperate glory.
David Coates said, “This is not our fight alone, nor is it our fight to lead.” The problems we are trying to fix should affect not just the US but also the countries around us. We should not stop being proud of our country but we also can't be stubborn. ISIS has threatened and attacked the United States and other countries as well. October 2016 This group of terrorists “downed a Russian passenger jet, killing all 224 people on board” (Karen). Two weeks after that a bus was driven through a crowd in Paris and “killed more than 100 people.”(Karen) These are only two instances these groups have directly attacked parts of the world. There are also many inspired killings for this radical group. We need to get together with these countries before
When one thinks of war they think of one side attacking the other, but in this war we spend much of our time in damp, muddy trenches, which smell of sewage and rotting corpses. The sun is high so we all lay low in the trenches to avoid sniper fire. So I sit and rest enjoying the break, using the time to clean my bolt-action rifle. My fellow brothers-in-arms are busy taking care of everyday tasks such as personal hygiene or writing letters home.
Throughout their lives, people must deal with the horrific and violent side of humanity. The side of humanity is shown through the act of war. This is shown in Erich Remarque’s novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front”. War is by far the most horrible thing that the human race has to go through. The participants in the war suffer irreversible damage by the atrocities they witness and the things they go through.
Mother I’m telling you it’s horrible over here, I can’t stand this! We barely have shelter, food, clothes to wear, always getting bitten by bugs, and we don’t even have beds to sleep on. I have to literally sleep on the ground, pretending the dirt was my mattress. Trust me it was not comfortable! I had blood splashed all over me. This war got out of control and it became a “terrain of death”, and there was so many dead bodies that stretched 500 miles! The worst part was that the warfare in the trenches was that it was so dirty, smelly and people who have contagious diseases such as cholera and trench foot. For soldiers life in the trenches meant living in fear. Furthermore, there is an open space between two sets of opposing trenches became
I have finally found the opportunity to send you a letter. I’m sure you have received many postcards from me, saying that I am well. I am not allowed to tell you much news as all outgoing mail is being censored by our officers. Presently, the censoring is quite strict. During the day, my fellow soldiers and I see either one of our airplanes or one of the German's shelled by the antiaircraft gun. The shells burst all around the airplane; however, I have yet to see one make contact. As the shell bursts, we can see the fire and the smoke making a dark cloud that stuck around for fifteen minutes. Since the airplanes fly at high altitudes, they are considered out of range.