All Quiet On The Western Front Rhetorical Analysis

Emarque develops this theme throughout the novel by explaining how men who don't know each other can work together and get along. They do this by comparing things to each other so they can relate and show that they are all in the same situation. In the book the men have a hard time at first because they are not used to what is happening around them and war is not what they were told it would be like. It is very sad to think about how the war was back in the day because things just weren't the same way that they are now and they didn't have the weapons or the technology that we have today. In the book it was talking about world war one and it talked about some of the weapons they used, gasses,machine guns, mortars, flame throwers and many

more weapons that aren't used today. The men had to use comradeship and learn to work the weapons together so they could win the war, that was a big part of the book because it really started off explaining what it was like working with others you didn't know and trusting them to help protect your life and others.

To me comradeship means you will promise to help protect and go out of your way to help someone no matter what the case is, because if it something such as the situation of war people's lives can be at risk so it is very important to take comradeship seriously and to be loyal to it. I think the theme or message in this novel is to help people get a small idea of what war was-is like and that you can't take it as a joke or make fun of it because it really was a big deal for people to go out and fight for their countries and protect everything we have with their lives. In the book when it talked about what the battle front was really like it really made me think and have to try to comprehend what things are really like in war and how dangerous and scary it can be. They mentioned the battlefield and a place called no man's land, that seemed like a place where it broke a lot of the soldiers mental state and really set them off guard from real life because they were killing people without even thinking about it and some of those people even suffered to death or barely

lived. When they talkin about the part in the book where paul had to stab a man because he jumped in the same trench as him it made him think of how scared he was of himself because war had taken over his mind and body by making him a killer, he didn't want that but he had no way of getting out because that is what he had been trained to do. In my opinion i really enjoyed this book because it made me think a lot and how grateful i am for what i have and the great environment i'm in.

This novel has had a great impact on me and really taught me a lot of what the war is really like and the dangers it has to offer, i learned about how scary it was for the men to go out and fight at such a young age and how they had to work together and become brothers. To me this book has a lot of great examples of war and how people should really take it seriously and be more grateful for where they are and what they have, in my opinion people take too many things for granted and are not respectful enough to the life they have been given. This book also taught me a lot about world war one and things that happened in it. The book really helped me get a better idea of what it was really like and how it affected people and the soldiers that served in it, they had to suffer through many things such as infections, sickness, gunshot wounds, and even death. In my opinion i think Mr. Makela should continue to read and discuss this book with his future classes because it is a good learning experience for people that don't know a lot about world war one,