All Quiet On The Western Front 'And In Flanders Field'

WW1 affects

The novel All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the poem, “In Flanders Field,” by John McCrae and the film, Gallipoli, Demonstrates how war makes men feel unimportant and, forces soldiers to make hard decisions that no one should half to make. In war people were forced to fight for their lives. Men were forced to kill one another to get their opinion across to the opposing sides. When men went home to their families they were too scared to say what had happened to them in the war. Many people had a glorified thought about how war is, Soldiers didn't tell them what had truly happened to them.

In war many people had a fixed view of how war was. In the book All Quiet On the Western Front the main character Paul went home and listened to his father talk to his friends about how good the war truly was. Paul sat and watched and didn't say anything because he didn't want to ruin the perspectives of the men and it was simply too hard for him to talk about.”I realise

he does not know that a man cannot talk of such things; I Would do it willingly, but it is too dangerous for me to put these things into words. I am afraid they might then become gigantic and I be no longer able to master them.”(Page 78). In the poem In Flanders field The author talks about why people should not be celebrating war and to think about all the men that fought for you. In the movie Gallipoli many of the men that had died had no idea how bad war truly was when they signed up. The men started to panic when they finally realize that people are immediately dying at the front line.
In WW1 many of the recruits were forced to make decisions no one should half to make. Soldiers were forced to kill men that they didn't even know just because they were on the opposing side. Paul killed a man because if he didn't he would have been killed first. He had no idea who the man was or what he was like as a person. Paul was upset for killing a man and his friends tried to comfort him. “"You don't need to lose any sleep over your affair," nods Albert. And now I hardly understand it myself any more."It was only because I had to lie there with him so long," I say. "After all, war is war."Oellrich's rifle cracks out sharply and dry.” (Page 109). In Flanders Field talks about how people were killed in the flanders field. “ Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high!
If ye break faith with us who die
Many people were glad to die during the war but it is sad to think everything.

When Paul was in the war he and his Friend Kat ran into a recruit that had been shot and they were debating whether or not to put him out of his misery. "We'll be back again soon," says Kat, "We are only going to get a stretcher for you."We don't know if he understands. He whimpers like a child and plucks at us: "Don't go away--” Kat looks around and whispers: "Shouldn't we just take a revolver and put an end to it?" (Page 34). In the movie Gallipoli, the main character Archy was a runner and he had no idea what he had gotten himself into. But when it was his time to cross the front line he had hesitation and did what he had signed up for. In the poem In Flanders Field it makes you feel sad for all the lives that had been lost. “Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.” this gives you a feeling of sadness for all the people who died and their families that they will never see

again.
War has affected the families and people who have fought in them. War has affected the soldiers mentally and physically. War was a hard time for the soldiers and it made it harder that no one was able to understand what they were going through.