Metaphors In The Final Solution

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The “Final Solution” was idea made up by Adolf Hitler in theory but not any proof of this is found anywhere. So the origin is still officially uncreation. “The Final Solution” was the idea to eliminate all Jewish men, women, and children in Germany. Hitler believed that this would solve all of Germany 's problems. After prison Hitler became part of the Nattzi regiment and raised to power. Once he was head he started his Final Solution by step. Finally by rounding up all Jewish people into ghettos and then eventually into concentration camps.

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Metaphor is used multiple times, one example of this is when Remarque writes, “I think it is more like a fever… No one in particular wants it, and then all at once there it is”(206). Albert is saying that war is a fever. The boys are discussing who thinks that starting a wa is a good idea and benefits greatly from it. Albert then answers in this way because no one, he believes, would want to start something like this.Another is when Remarque says, “We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out” (275). In this way Remarque is able to explain in the way that the mental attacks of war make even the strongest of soldiers break some even to the point of madness. Simile is also used a lot throughout the book to describe the soldiers and the scenery. Remarque uses this device when he writes, “We fancied to be trained for heroism as though we were circus-ponies. But we soon accustom ourselves to it” (22). In this way Paul explains that they all had to romantic view of them being heros without much trouble but this is crushed pretty much once they get to camp. Second is when Remarque writes, “We are forlong like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost” (123). In this way Paul summarizes this lost generation that he and his fellow

The genre of All Quiet On the Western Front is historical fiction with a tragic side to it. The book itself is based around World War I and follows all the facts about that war making it historical. It is a work of fiction because the characters in the story are made up for the purpose of this story. It is tragic just as it is a war story. Wit war comes tragedy and that tragedy is obviously seen through the eyes of the character Paul.

The Author Erich Maria Remarque was german and drafted into the war at the age of 28, much like Paul. After the war he became a sports journalist while in his free time he wrote All Quiet On The Western Front. The book was an international hit, but the nazis banned the book in germany in 1933 right after Remarque left for Switzerland. In 1939 he moved again to the United States. After World War II Remarque returned to switzerland with his wife and lived there until his death.

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Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet On The Western Front. New York: Ballantine, 1984.