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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT 7 Prologue This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war.
Paul Bäumer narrates the story entitled ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’, where the German army faces French, British and American forces during World War I. Paul and several of his school friends were inspired by their teacher Kantorek to enlist in order to fight for the German Fatherland.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT written by Ian Stokell Lesley Paterson Edward Berger Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque
One of the best-known novels ever written about war is All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), the story of a young German soldier in World War I. Paul Baumer is not a hero, just an ordinary young man caught up, with his classmates, in the horror of trench warfare. For Germany, the Western Front was a battle line ...
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT – STUDY QUESTIONS Chapter 10 1.How does the troop manage to live well for a few days? 2.What happens to Paul when he returns to the front? What happens to Albert? 3.Why doesn’t Paul want to get into a clean bed on the troop train?
Discussion Questions for All Quiet on the Western Front. 1. Paul Baumer says at one point in his narrative that: . . . Two years of shells and bombs—a man won’t peel that off as easy as a sock. We agree that it’s the same for everyone; not only for us here. But everywhere for everyone who is our ...
All Quiet on the Western Front, the famed war novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque, has sold more than fifty million copies, been translated into thirty languages and has been made into two English-speaking movies, one of which won an Academy Award for best picture.1 It has been hailed as 'the greatest war novel of all
All Quiet on the Western Front (novel) By Thomas Schneider. The anti-war novel Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) by Erich Maria Remarque (first published in 1928) and the movie directed by Lewis Milestone (USA 1930) are internationally acclaimed representations of World War I’s Western Front.
What is Erich Remarque trying to say about the truth of warfare in his tragic novel, All Quiet on the Western Front? The main themes in All Quiet on the Western Front are related to patriotism and the horrors of war. See if you can identify and analyze those themes.
Brian Murdoch. Translator’s Note. This new translation has been made from the first edition of Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues, published in Berlin by Ullstein under their Propyläen imprint early in 1929. The familiar English title of Remarque’s novel, however, was provided by A. W. Wheen in 1929.
All Quiet on the Western Front The subject of All Quiet on the Western Frontis the worldwide conflict of 1914–1918, called then the Great War. World War I, as we refer to it today, was a shockingly intense conflict that not only transformed the political landscape of Europe but also changed forever the values and perceptions of civilized ...
confined its report to one sentence: All quiet on the western front. Unlike Müller, or Kemmerich, or Behm, or all the comrades I heard crying all night in No Man’s Land, I didn’t suffer.
It is taken from All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, first published in 1929. It is narrated by Paul Bäumer, a young man of nineteen who, along with friends, joins the German army voluntarily after listening to the stirring patriotic speeches of his teacher.
All Quiet on the Western Front and the Fate of a War Between 1928 and 1930 Germany and Great Britain especially, and France and America to a lesser extent, experienced a sudden and remarkable 'boom' in war books, plays, and films. For a decade after the end of the war, publishers, theatre directors, and film
Lesson 1: All Quiet On The Western Front English KS4 The plight of the horses: Remarque uses language effectively to show the reader how traumatic the experi-ence would have been for the horses. He describes the ‘… screams of the animals…’ and how the landscape was ‘… quiet, silver.’ This reinforces the way the horrific sounds
All Quiet On The Western Front Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) was a German novelist who fought in World War I. His novel All Quiet on the Western Front provides a vivid description of the fighting as seen through the eyes of a young German soldier named Paul Baumer.
Lessons 1 & 2: All Quiet On The Western Front English KS4 Fiction text A: Full text extract from All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (chapter 4, pages 36-45) We’ve been ordered up the line on wiring duty. The trucks turn up for us as soon as it starts to get dark. We scramble aboard.
A small rumble of a distant explosion. KAT—a sergeant and de-facto leader of the company watches for the French attack, lit by the embers of their cigarette. The members of SECOND COMPANY are in their trench in a forward position on the frontline of the Western Front, in Belgium.
Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front (originally Im Westen Nichts Neues, literally meaning ‘Nothing New in the West’, 1929) is recognised as a hugely significant piece of war literature, especially as a landmark in the period 1928-30 when war books became more popular with publishers and readers.
Himmelstoss came by, all polished up and spry for going out. He planted himself in front of us and asked how we liked the job. In spite of ourselves we tripped and emptied the bucket over his legs. He raved, but the limit had been reached. “That means clink,” he yelled. 10 But Kropp had had enough.
All Quiet on the Western Front Socratic Seminar Prompts & Prep Work. CCS: LRA 3.3, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9. 3.11; WS: 1.1, 1.4; WA: 2.2. What is a Socratic Seminar? For our purposes, in this class, it is a formal full-class discussion – the desks will be arranged in a giant circle – that is student lead, based on the prompts below.
All Quiet on the Western Front. By Garry Wills Excerpted from an article in the February/March 1998 issue of “Civilization ”. “All Quiet on the Western Front,” first released in 1930 by Universal Pictures, is the greatest anti-war film ever made. But those who viewed the film in the ensuing years would most likely have seen a copy that ...
We are pleased to bring you the US Premiere adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front by Robin Kingsland from the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, our first exciting production of the season.
