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  • All Quiet On The Western Front: Not the Typical War Story

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    Not the Typical War Story The typical war story is most commonly about the courageous and brave actions of soldiers who defeated the enemy and returned home an unscathed hero However Erich Maria Remarque knows firsthand the harsh realities of war from serving in World War I In his novel All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque did not romanticize the war he depicted the physical mental and emotional hardships of the soldiers It is obvious that Remarque wrote this from an anti war perspective liv

  • All Quiet on the Western Front: Paul

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    The book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque This novel was the first of its kind instead of romanticizing war it exposed it for the terrible bloody and dirty struggle for human survival that it is The story centers around the life of tells the story of Paul Baumer a young German soldier during WWI who joined the army directly after high school and never really experienced life Due to his inexperience and lack of knowledge of the world the war becomes Pauls life and in the en

  • Commentary on The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

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    The Passionate Shepherd to His Love The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is a poem written by the English poet Christopher Marlowe in the 1590s In addition to being one of the most well known love poems in the English language it is considered one of the earliest examples of the pastoral style of British poetry in the late Renaissance period It is composed in Iambic tetrameter four feet of unstressed stressed syllables with six stanzas each composed of two rhyming couplets It is often used for s

  • Escape in Where Are you Going, Where Have you Been?

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    Ill huff and puff until I blow your house down This quote is from the well known fairytale of the Three Little Pigs The big bad wolf goes around blowing down the pigs house of sticks and straw Only the house of bricks withstood the wolfs fury In the end the reader can interpret that when time patience and hard work will provide a better off result the laziness and getting things done the easy way Although there is a moral behind this story it is still a story for your entertainment a type of es

  • Commentary on Fahrenheit 451

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    Fahrenheit 451 takes place in an unspecified future time in a hedonistic and rabidly anti intellectual America that has completely abandoned self control and bans the reading of books Anyone caught owning them is at the minimum confined in a mental hospital and has the books confiscated and burned At the maximum the penalty is a sentence to immediate death People are now only entertained by in ear radio and an interactive form of television The protagonist Guy Montag is a fireman certain that h

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