No war on the western front

Cole 2022-01-03 08:01:12

The Germans went on the expedition, and all the people happily sent them off. In school, everything was despised, and personal values ​​and ideals were completely deprived. Just like Paul’s dream of a writer, it is the most important thing for students to be brainwashed, and Behn who does not want to participate in the war is also the most important thing. Forced to join the army and eventually died prematurely on the battlefield. Everyone joined the army with enthusiasm, only to find that the postman was transformed into a devil instructor by the army, who only cultivated war machines, but was timid, bullied and afraid of hardship. When the students went to the front line, they realized how much they feared the cruelty of war and how fragile their lives were. But what is all this for? The conversation in the middle revealed that people don’t know why, and even the enemy doesn’t understand it. It’s just a struggle between the national government, but it involves everyone in an unknown but deadly war. The children died one after another, but the adults who were hypocritical and ignorant of life and death commanded the plan with their own self-righteousness. They did not know how many people died when they talked wildly, how many simple children were destroyed forever by the war, or died, sent to the dead. They don't want to kill, but they can no longer see the beauty, the girls, and watch their friends die, just as they can no longer see the cherry blossoms in their hometown or touch the butterfly. The editing is very good, the intention is high, the content is substantial, the editing is smooth, and the scenes do not lose to the current war movies.

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All Quiet on the Western Front quotes

  • Hair-peak soldier: And manufacturers. They get rich.

    [murmurs of agreement]

    Albert Kropp: I think it's more a kind of fever. Nobody wants it in particular, and then all at once, there it is. We didn't want it. The English didn't want it. And here we are fighting.

  • Albert Kropp: Ah, the French certainly deserve to be punished for starting this war.

    Detering: Everybody says it's somebody else.

    Tjaden: Well. how do they start a war?

    Albert Kropp: Well, one country offends another.

    Tjaden: How could one country offend another?

    Tjaden: You mean there's a mountain over in Germany gets mad at a field over in France?

    [Everyone laughs]

    Albert Kropp: Well, stupid, one people offends another.

    Tjaden: Oh, well, if that's it, I shouldn't be here at all. I don't feel offended.

    Katczinsky: It don't apply to tramps like you.

    Tjaden: Good. Then I could be goin' home right away.

    Paul Bäumer: Ah, you just try it.

    Katczinsky: Yeah. You wanna get shot?

    Tjaden: The kaiser and me...

    [the others laugh]

    Tjaden: Me and the kaiser felt just alike about this war. We didn't either of us want any war, so I'm going home. He's there already.

    Hair-peak soldier: Somebody must have wanted it. Maybe it was the English. No, I don't want to shoot any Englishman. I never saw one 'til I came up here. And I suppose most of them never saw a German 'til *they* came up here. No, I'm sure *they* weren't asked about it.

    Paul Bäumer: No.

    Detering: Well, it must be doing somebody some good.

    Detering: Not me and the kaiser.

    Hair-peak soldier: I think maybe the kaiser wanted a war.

    Tjaden: You leave us out of this!

    Katczinsky: I don't see that. The kaiser's *got* everything he needs.

    Hair-peak soldier: Well, he never had a war before. Every full-grown emperor needs one war to make him famous. Why, that's history.

    Paul Bäumer: Yeah, generals, too. They need war.