All Quiet On The Western Front Rhetorical Analysis

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Emarque develops this theme throughout the novel by explaining how men who don't know each other can work together and get along. They do this by comparing things to each other so they can relate and show that they are all in the same situation. In the book the men have a hard time at first because they are not used to what is happening around them and war is not what they were told it would be like. It is very sad to think about how the war was back in the day because things just weren't the same way that they are now and they didn't have the weapons or the technology that we have today. In the book it was talking about world war one and it talked about some of the weapons they used, gasses,machine guns, mortars, flame throwers and many …show more content…

To me comradeship means you will promise to help protect and go out of your way to help someone no matter what the case is, because if it something such as the situation of war people's lives can be at risk so it is very important to take comradeship seriously and to be loyal to it. I think the theme or message in this novel is to help people get a small idea of what war was-is like and that you can't take it as a joke or make fun of it because it really was a big deal for people to go out and fight for their countries and protect everything we have with their lives. In the book when it talked about what the battle front was really like it really made me think and have to try to comprehend what things are really like in war and how dangerous and scary it can be. They mentioned the battlefield and a place called no man's land, that seemed like a place where it broke a lot of the soldiers mental state and really set them off guard from real life because they were killing people without even thinking about it and some of those people even suffered to death or barely

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