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Join the list to receive special offers, updates, and everything Black Rifle Coffee. The book was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film inand Remarque earned a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize the following year. The book provides an unflinching account of the horrors endured by those who fought through that war. It delves into what it looks like when young men are encouraged to kill other young men for seemingly no larger purpose other than fighting for the sake of fighting, which Remarque denounces as tragic and unnecessary throughout the book.
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The characters are portrayed as victims of forces larger than themselves who must band together to survive as best as they can. He drew from his experience to craft an authentic, brutally truthful narrative about the destructive exploitation of youth in war.
All Quiet strips the varnish from any romantic ideals of that war. Spark of Life features a political prisoner only initially referred to as his concentration camp number, Remarque describes him as having the appearance of a skeleton.
The number represents his lengthy nine-year stay at the camp because he was the th person imprisoned there. Of the people who had been imprisoned that long ago, most were already dead.
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This makes the main character a spectacle and symbol for hope within the camp as his resilient spirit awakens after he witnesses an Allied air bombardment of a nearby town. For the first time in link a decade, suddenly feels his dormant humanity rise like a spark out of his current life of mechanical subsistence. He suddenly believes he might live and remembers that life is worth living, worth fighting for. Remarque fled Germany for Switzerland as Hitler rose to power. Eventually Remarque became an American citizen and learned after the war that his sister had been guillotined by the Nazis for speaking against the party. Garrett Anderson is a writer and filmmaker in Portland, Oregon. He is writer, director and producer of The November Wara documentary about a squad of Marines on one of their worst days All Quiet On The Western Front And the Battle of Fallujah.
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