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When you are done constructing your metaphor frame, please post your group’s work on the class Padlet wall. Include your name(s) in the title box and the passage w/ analysis below. Be prepared to share your work with the class.

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“I find I do not belong here anymore, it is a foreign world” (168).
Remarque compares Paul’s “here” or his home while on leave to a foreign world.  A foreign world is new, uncomfortable, and alienating.  The comparison suggests that Paul, on his return home, feels uncomfortable with his family, separated from his surroundings, and alienated from his past.   The metaphor develops the theme that war destroys men emotionally leaving them alienated and alone.

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Hannah Alforque, Grace Kwon, Maya Willyard, Julia Irvine, and Jahzeel Luna

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Hannah Alforque, Grace Kwon, Maya Willyard, Julia Irvine, and Jahzeel Luna

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“In the meantime Kantorek is dashing up and down like a wild boar” (177).
Remarque employs a simile to compare Kantorek to a wild boar. A wild boar is an uncivilized, undomesticated animal, and above all, wild. Throughout the novel the soldiers and participants in the army are compared to wild animals to represent their barbaric nature that is developed through the war. Kantorek opposes his intellectual maturity as the boys old schoolmaster that alters his character due to the brutal reality of war. The comparison of Kantorek to a wild boar develops the theme of dehumanization because he is no longer a civilized human but a wild animal that only has the instinct to kill. War ultimately turns its own participants into inhumane beasts that were taught to live for the war.

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 Ryan Kim, Ben Kanayama, Rylan Cruz, Daniel Chiu

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 Ryan Kim, Ben Kanayama, Rylan Cruz, Daniel Chiu

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“There'll be a bombardment, that is merely his own opinion; but if he says it here, then the sentence has the sharpness of a bayonet in the moonlight, it cuts clean through the thought, it thrusts nearer and speaks to this unknown thing that is awakened in us, a dark meaning” (29).

The metaphor compares the sharpness of a bayonet to the dark meaning described. The sharpness of a bayonet shows how the sharpness will cut through the thoughts of the people, showing how people can be easily disillusioned to the truth. Furthermore, the dark meaning describes how people are tempted easily by bad thoughts that cloud their mind. The metaphor connects to the thematic idea of disillusionment because people are quick to listen to the sharpness of the bayonet that forces the people to be mentally unstable.

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Kenny Kim, Alan Wu, Nathan Lee, Will Xu, Kaeshav Chandrasekar

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Kenny Kim, Alan Wu, Nathan Lee, Will Xu, Kaeshav Chandrasekar

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“Revenge is black pudding” (49).

Once Baumer and his friends complete the task of humiliating their superior Himmelstoss, Haie stated that “Revenge is black pudding.” Remarque compares the action and the dessert, using the pudding to describe revenge as dark and sweet. The comparison reveals the temptation of revenge, which pulls the soldiers to release their anger. The pudding represents a delicious dessert that Baumer and his friends enjoyed back when they haven’t enlisted for the war, which Remarque utilizes to compare beating up Himmelstoss as an extremely pleasurable thing.This description of revenge develops the theme that war, to any extent, dehumanizes the men that are involved and transforms them into savages.

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Britney Le, Nicolette Marsh, Misha Seifi

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Britney Le, Nicolette Marsh, Misha Seifi

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“His features have become uncertain and faint, like a photographic plate from which two pictures have been taken. Even his voice sounds like ashes” (15).

The first simile compares the bedridden Kemmerich to that of “a photographic plate from which two pictures have been taken” (15). Much like that of an ancient and faint photographic plate, Kemmerich’s life and efficiency are coming to an end. As these plates are disposable and can be discarded after a few uses, it is suggested that Kemmerich will be disposed of as well. They are not as sharp, and no longer as bright as they used to be, as they are fading like Kemmerich’s life force. This comparison develops a  melancholy tone, as one can clearly see that he will not live much longer. The second simile compares Kemmerich’s voice to ashes. The ashes in this comparison are known to be the remains of a fire, and are lifeless. The comparison suggests that Kemmerich’s voice is one of the only remaining elements of the man. Even then, Kemmerich’s life and spirit are fading away as he is dying. The comparison develops the author’s tone of hopelessness. The people around Kemmerich are incapable of bringing him back to health, and can only watch him die as he succumbs to his injuries.

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Ashley Lee, Montreh Sohrabian, Keerthi Nair, Ashley Singh

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Ashley Lee, Montreh Sohrabian, Keerthi Nair, Ashley Singh

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“It is a warm evening and the twilight seems like a canopy under whose shelter we feel drawn together.”
In the following simile, the peace and calm during the evening is compared to the shelter a canopy provides. This compares to the war in the way that the warm evening gives a false sense of security to the soldiers. The war is filled with violence and death, yet there are still moments where the soldiers find something akin to peace. This develops the theme that war is destructive and can transform an individual into a lesser being than they used to be before war obliterated them.

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Connie Nguyen, Catherine Ngo, Bridget Sun, Mira Patel

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Connie Nguyen, Catherine Ngo, Bridget Sun, Mira Patel

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“Revenge is black-pudding” (49).

The metaphor compares the act of revenge to black-pudding dessert. The second object in the comparison is black-pudding, and it describes a darkness and evil that comes with the sweet feeling of revenge. The metaphor suggests that when revenge is completed, it leaves a feeling of evil satisfaction. The comparison develops the conflict between the boys and Himmelstoss. The boys seek revenge for what he did to them when they were in the company and feel sweetly accomplished once they get their vengeance.

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Sami Samman, Hasan Jebory, Sergio Ortiz, Miles Josten

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Sami Samman, Hasan Jebory, Sergio Ortiz, Miles Josten

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“Who isn’t smutty is no soldier; it merely does not suit us at this moment, so we edge away and march off to the delousing station with the same feeling as if it were a swell gentlemen’s outfitters” (Remarque 143). Remarque uses this quote in order to compare the delousing station to a gentleman's outfitters. A delousing station is where the soldiers have their lice removed. It is such a relief to the soldiers that they walk out with confidence, like they have just bought a nice suit from a gentleman’s outfitters. This comparison develops the characters.

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Michelle Tang, Christina Kevorkov, enevieve van Nieuwenhuysen

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Michelle Tang, Christina Kevorkov, enevieve van Nieuwenhuysen

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“We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamented enough in peacetime, would be out of place here”Remarque compares the soldier’s will to survive to the how they would have acted as civilians. To survive in the battlefield the soldier were forced to give up their moral and their own selfish feelings. Feelings are considered out of place because it is only something that can be found in a civilized society, while in the battle field there is only blood shed and no sympathy for anything. The comparison suggests that the soldiers feels the need to dehumanized themselves in order to survive war because if they don’t they would be overwhelmed by their own feelings. The feelings will be the cause to their own death. The metaphor develops the theme that war destroys men emotionally leaving them alienated and alone. It enhances the idea of how war can leave a burden on a young individual due to the harsh experiences and conditions evident on the front.