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A 5 page research paper/essay that discusses Erich Maria Remarque's classic novel All Quiet on the Western Front, which offered the world one of the first realistic views of warfare. The writer also contrasts and compares wartime experience during World War I with the current US war in Iraq. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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it was first published in Germany in 1928. The next year, it was translated and published in English in the US by Little, Brown and Company. The narrative presents the
story Paul Baumer, an idealistic young man who is transformed by the horror and degradation of war into a hardened combat veteran. Paul becomes someone who is so cut off
from his emotions and alienated from civilian life that the thought of ever having a productive life again seems impossible. He predicts that he and his fellow veterans will be
"superfluous even to ourselves" and "in the end we shall fall into ruin" (Remarque 294). Pauls description of combat and life in the trenches of World War I is
a long list of horror and deprivations. They sufficient food and supplies. They live with rats and lice and the realization of constant, imminent death. To protect themselves psychologically, they
learn to turn off their emotions. Paul explains that in combat, "...we turn into animals when we go up to the line because that is the only thing which brings
us through safely" (Remarque 138-139). Paul and his comrades are all extremely young, still in their late teens. Once idealistic and motivated by patriotism, their idealism has been crushed
by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in order to survive. While hopefully US
soldiers are not as desperate and psychically scarred as Paul, there are similarities between these soldiers and the modern US soldier fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. First of all, like
Paul, the US soldier is a volunteer. While many are older than Paul, like the Germany army of World War I, many volunteers are in their late teens. While US
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