In the short story "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather the main character, Paul feels entrapped in a life he feels he doesn't belong in, due to the lack of love. Paul is overcome with feelings of despair because feels his father, teachers and classmates misunderstand him and are unwor...

The battlefield is stained with blood. Tommies are firing, bombs are dropping, and people are dieing too. Young men are making the ultimate sacrifice, needlessly, just to defend their country. After months of death, famine, and life in the shadows, even the toughest of men and the most cheerful of ...

"The Rocking-Horse Winner" was written by D.H. Lawrence. This is a story about a young boy who is desperately searching for luck and money in order to please his unhappy mother. In the end, this search leads to Paul's untimely death. One can easily view this story as a fantasy in which Paul b...

Keep It Should All Quiet on the Western Front be appraised again this year as part of the curriculum for our high school students? Of many words, "yes" would be the correct response because this novel has much value within its words. All Quiet on the Western Front by Enrich Maria Remar...

The Horrors of War Throughout their lives, people must deal with the horrific and violent side of humanity. The side of humanity is shown through the act of war. This is shown in Erich Remarque's novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front". War is by far the most horrible thing that...

All Quiet On The Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, is a war novel that doesn't glorify the war effort, but denounces it as the cause for human deterioration. It also places much emphasis on the idea that even though a man can be trained to not have feelings, they do come out every...

Transformations through War The novel All Quiet on the Western Front depicts World War I, the most devastating war up until its time. The author Erich Maria Remarque gets across a few forceful themes. Perhaps the strongest theme is the transformations that war induces. All Quiet demonstrates...

Not a Usual "Case" Some critics have ever commented that Willa Cather was one of the few "uneasy survivors of the nineteenth century." Holding traditional values tightly, she rejected modernity and tried to escape into the shelter of the past as she made her solemn statement t...

Life is a coming-of-age story. Whether a person takes life as a human, character or an animal, they all have a history full of their own unique events. The events focus on the four stages of the journey; innocence, initiation, chaos, and resolution. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Er...

All Quiet on the Western Front Critique In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, writes of the reality of war, and its psychological impact on the soldiers that lived through WWI. Through his character Paul Baumer, we see how the cruelty, chaos, and violence of War, can begin t...

Erich Maria Remarque's war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, deals with the many ways in which World War I affected people's lives, both the lives of soldiers on the front and the lives of people on the home front. The war affected the way soldiers saw human life. The soldiers got used to...

Do you believe in fate? Do you believe that a greater power has a predetermined outcome for you life? Well, I do not. I do not believe that something or someone has already set out a path for me to travel, and has preconceived all of my thoughts, and dreams. To believe that my aspirations will not ...

What meaning does art hold in the lives of people? Is it simply available for entertainment, or to display power and prestige? On the other hand, is art the personification of light and happiness in one's life? In "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather, Paul sees the world of art as an ...

Willa Cather's story "Paul's Case" is trying to tell us that it is foolish to take one's own life because of set backs that make it hard to capture our dreams. Paul doesn't realize that you have to earn and work for what want in life like his father did. We first see Paul going back to school a ...

The Green Mile: A Celebration of the Human Spirit The Green Mile may seem a far cry from a novel that celebrates life and the human spirit; however, many situations discovered throughout the novel muddle and bewilder general beliefs of life and death, good and evil, and innocence and guilt. The s...

#Stephanie BrownEnglish 20/26Paper ISubmission IIImagination Examining the human condition is appealing to any kind of audience because it offers a situation that every person can identify with and understand. At times this form of realism can cause some discomfort or awkwardness because it speaks ...

Music and poetry touches my emotions and finds a place in my heart, where I can feel the words penetrating my soul. When I listen to a good song or read a meaningful poem an emotional connection is made through the pain and heartbreak of recently losing people in my life to death and divorce. The P...

ANALYSIS OF A SHORT STORY "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D.H Lawrence is a reflection of society's materialism, the search for material happiness leaving on the side the real matter of life. People are looking for happiness in the wrong place. This is the story of a family who pret...

Losing Your Feet and Finding Your WingsWhat is real and what is ideal? What is true and what is just? Who are friends and who are foes? In Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, all these questions are asked, even if not all are answered. Many themes are discussed, many emotions ...

Lost GenerationIn the novel All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque shows how the soldiers in World War I are disillusioned and surrounded by human suffering. Surrounded by death and suffering, the boys lose interest in everything but war. The war slowly ...

Born May 15, 1890, in Indian Creek, Texas; Katherine Anne Porter has written numerous short stories and a novel. Katherine Anne Porter uses autobiographical information and symbolism to relate the story of Miranda's maturation into adulthood in her short story "The Grave." In &qu...

The short story, " The Grave," by Katherine Anne Porter began in a secluded area that had once been the family cemetery. The cemetery was owned by the grandmother who had just passed away. In her will she had requested the land be sold and this required the family cemetery to be moved. Two childr...

The Impact of War in All Quiet on the Western Front.The major theme of the novel dwells on the waste and emptiness of war. Thousands of lives are lost just because a few men in authority want more land and more power. Ordinary people, with valuable aspirations and dreams, are being pulled into the b...

What do we try to achieve in life? Why do we try so hard even though we know we are going to die in the end anyways? These are the questions that I had never thought to ask myself before my death. After dying in World War I, God saw that I had not been taught the many lessons that I should have ...

Death-of-the-OtherErich Maria Remarque lets us know exactly what theme he intends for All Quiet on the Western Front in the short note that comes just before Chapter 1. He attests that the novel tries to simply tell the story of a generation of young men whom World War I destroyed- even if they surv...