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1. Makes up the plot (civil war)
2. "A woman's place"
The absent father from Little Women's experiences during the American Civil War, as well as his struggle to come to terms with everything he has seen and done.
3. Slavery leads to internal conflict
4. The brutality of the war leads to more internal conflict
Betrayal
Nationalism
Inhumanity
The message behind All Quiet on the Western Front is how the horrors and futility of World War I has destroyed a generation, thus the lost generation .
Savagery
The Lost Generation
Belgium
Germany
Luxemburg
France
"Human Animals"
Patriotism
This novel tells the story of a young man named Paul Bäumer who voluntarily joined the German Army to fight in WWI on the Western front. He soon realizes the war is not as glorious nor honorable as he once thought. Instead it is a terrifying journey that seems to never end.
Revenge
Sacrifice
Innocence
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how people are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
1. Happened in the past
Fear
2. Allusions
3. Death
Guilt
Naivety
4. Real events
5. 19th century dialogue
6. Actual places
- Diseases
Responsibility
- Rats and lice
- Blood, mud, noise
- Poor nutrition
- Constant bombings
- Fear of being attacked
Time: Late in World War I (1917–1918)
Place: The German/French/Western front
7. Relatable characters
-18 years old
- Values learning and
education
- Paul's classmate
- Terrible living conditions
- Constant killings and deaths
Guilt is an inherent part of human nature that we feel after we do horrible things.
War in the early 20th century was a brutal
and miserable experience.
-Paul's close friend
- Serves with Second Company
-Intelligent and rational
- Analyzes the causes of the war
Paul's home is comforting,
but not the same.
- Books
- Food
- Bed
- Quiet
- Feels out of place
-Paul's friend
- Serves with Second Company
- 19 years old
- Formerly a locksmith
- He is the narrator and protagonist
- Sensitive and sweet at heart
- Passionate, creative, avid poem writer
- Looses innocence
- Paul's best friend
- Serves with Second Company
- Fatherly figure
- Resourceful and experienced soldier
Better experience at camps
Hospitals were not safe, welcoming, or warm operations.
Only place where they could find peace.
-Make-shift hospitals, spotless train-hospitals, fancy Catholic hospitals.
- Incompetent nurses
- Surgeons with odd fetishes
- Process of recovery is dangerous
- Everyone man for himself.
- All they could eat - "Paradise" - Good time
- More comfort - "Rituals" - Play card games
- Occasional allusion of past events
- 1917-1918
-Historical, Literary and Philosophical References
-Plato, William Tell, Battle of Zama, Charles the Bald, poison gas.
- World War 1
- War
- The German/French front a.k.a the Western front
- Death is evident throughout the novel
2. Real Geographical setting
1. Berlin
2. Poland
1. Real events from History
World War Two, Holocaust
2. Holocaust was from 1933
to 1945
1. About a little kid named Bruno
2. During World War Two
3. Bruno moves from Berlin to the middle of nowhere and encounters a fence.
Characters Affected By the setting....
Bruno and Shmeul
1. Mankind is made up of both good and evil
2. Fear plays a huge role in how people act and react.
It is a genre of novels that represents an actual event, person, or time period in history.
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Hans Hubermann struggles with an inner conflict between his conscious and the injustice occurring around him.
Max is a Jew who suffers many hardships during the Holocaust in this novel.
-The Title "of mice and men" is an allusion to the poem "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns
The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both
George (Left) Lennie (Right)
Curley's wife allows Lennie to pet her hair
Soledad, California