Mrs Z Garanito
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ESSAY 1
1. DESPITE THE OPENING DECLARATION BY REMARQUE OF IMPARTIALITY – THAT THIS BOOK WAS NEITHER AN ACCUSATION NOR A CONFESSION – IT WAS IN FACT BOTH. WRITE AND ESSAY OF 500 WORDS IN WHICH YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THIS STATEMENT SUPPORT YOUR OPINION WITH EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
“The book is intended neither as an accusation nor as a confession, but simply as an attempt to give an account of a generation that was destroyed by the war – even those of it who survived the shelling.”
I agree....
I see this novel as for what it was intended; many have their own ideas and have drawn their own conclusions regarding the novel. But Ii see this novel as a testimony and it speaks for all soldiers. Thus I agree with the opening statement (declaration).
Remarque was sixteen when the First World War broke out and he was called up for military service on 26 November 1916. After his training he was sent to a position behind the Arras front. During the offensive in Flanders Remarque was wounded by British shell splinters and he was taken to a military hospital in Duisburg. During this time Remarque got firsthand experience of the war and he thus applied these findings to his novel; whereby he highlights the horrific reality of the First World War.
Remarque’s novel in fact deals with the political and social upheaval in Europe during the First and Second World War. The horror of war and its effect on the soldiers are emphasized. The novel brings forth the gruesome reality of the war and how the soldiers experienced it.
In the novel the narrator Paul describes the events in the first person creating a realistic picture of how they unfolded. He started by how his friends and he got to sign up as volunteers. Their schoolmaster Kantorek expressed the fact that it was their patriotic duty to sign up and he filled their young minds with ideologies by saying that they were “Iron youth” and he kept glorifying them as heroes. After...
1. DESPITE THE OPENING DECLARATION BY REMARQUE OF IMPARTIALITY – THAT THIS BOOK WAS NEITHER AN ACCUSATION NOR A CONFESSION – IT WAS IN FACT BOTH. WRITE AND ESSAY OF 500 WORDS IN WHICH YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THIS STATEMENT SUPPORT YOUR OPINION WITH EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
“The book is intended neither as an accusation nor as a confession, but simply as an attempt to give an account of a generation that was destroyed by the war – even those of it who survived the shelling.”
I agree....
I see this novel as for what it was intended; many have their own ideas and have drawn their own conclusions regarding the novel. But Ii see this novel as a testimony and it speaks for all soldiers. Thus I agree with the opening statement (declaration).
Remarque was sixteen when the First World War broke out and he was called up for military service on 26 November 1916. After his training he was sent to a position behind the Arras front. During the offensive in Flanders Remarque was wounded by British shell splinters and he was taken to a military hospital in Duisburg. During this time Remarque got firsthand experience of the war and he thus applied these findings to his novel; whereby he highlights the horrific reality of the First World War.
Remarque’s novel in fact deals with the political and social upheaval in Europe during the First and Second World War. The horror of war and its effect on the soldiers are emphasized. The novel brings forth the gruesome reality of the war and how the soldiers experienced it.
In the novel the narrator Paul describes the events in the first person creating a realistic picture of how they unfolded. He started by how his friends and he got to sign up as volunteers. Their schoolmaster Kantorek expressed the fact that it was their patriotic duty to sign up and he filled their young minds with ideologies by saying that they were “Iron youth” and he kept glorifying them as heroes. After...