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All Quiet On The Western Front Summative Presentation
All Quiet On The Western Front Summative Presentation
the Western
Front
An Anti war Plea from German
culture
Themes
German Patriotism
• Young starry eyed boys
• Teachers spreading propaganda
German Patriotism
• Can be seen within various poems about the fatherland
• (OH father land my father land
• Look for german propaganda songs and poems
• Use Erika (song) for romanticized version of poetry)
• https://youtu.be/Xi_vwyPRxOI (and this)
• Patriostism is not evil
• Taken too far and applied to the context of war it created false
expectation
• First modern war. Men expected muskets and canonsn
Horrors of war
• The deaths of each character one by one
throughout the novel
Many soldiers watched their friends die