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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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“We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a wasteland. All the same, we are not often sad” (20).

The metaphor compares the men fighting in the war to a wasteland. The second object’s qualities in the comparison are unatractive, bleak, and unused. The comparison suggests that the first person in the comparison have nothing to hold onto in their old life, similar to how a wasteland lacks vegetation and life. The young men do not have something to fight for; this further dehumanizes the men at war. The comparison develops characterization of the soldier in the novel. Also, Remarque utilizes this characterization to further create a miserable and depressing tone.

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"As I leave she kisses me and gives me a picture of him. In his recruit's uniform he leans on a round rustic table with legs made of birch branches. Behind him a wood is painted on a curtain, and on the table stands a mug of beer."

In this metaphor, the recruit is being compared to the table and alcohol. Birch wood is a type of punishment used -in detail, whipping- and the act of having to tell a mother about her dead son is a punishment in itself. The recruit leans on the table which holds a cup of beer. Beer is being compared to the lies he has told. A poison being spread from him to the deceased man’s mother. Baumer’s character develops as he loses his sense of morality from  being a soldier.

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“We know that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a wasteland” (Remarque 20).

This metaphor is comparing the soldiers to a wasteland. A wasteland is land that is barren or a devastated piece of land. The soldiers have been drained by the war and are emotionally damaged like a wasteland. This comparison reinforces the theme of the lost generation because the war has destroyed their soul.

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Tristan Vu, Rebecah Huang, Athena & Eliada Pelehrinis

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Tristan Vu, Rebecah Huang, Athena & Eliada Pelehrinis

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“Nothing stirs; listless and wretched, like a condemned man, I sit there and the past withdraws itself” (172).

The simile compares the emptiness of Paul’s room to a condemned man, as he is referring to himself, and the loss of identity that has occurred because of his time in the war. Paul's second qualities in the comparison are his loneliness and his withdrawn past. This means that his loneliness is in part of his past, and childhood being taken away from him. The comparison suggests that the first object in the comparison is nothingness, that there is nothing around Paul which relates to him, being empty without emotion, feeling, or a sense of himself. The comparison develops new characterization, and theme. Paul's mental health and what he believes in has been deteriorating all this time and he finally  breaks and loses himself completely. There is no way to tell if he will come back from his horrific experiences. THis quote also develops the major theme of life after war. Life after war is horrific as men are not able to assimilate with current society because they are still living condemned in their own body and stuck in the past.

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“To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool” (Remarque 55).Remarque compares the front to a whirlpool which is sucking soldier further into the idea of war. Remarque suggest that soldiers lose their identity due to war especially more towards the front.

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“To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the whirl of the vortex sucking me slowly, irresistibly, inescapably into itself.

Remarque creates a metaphor comparing the battlefront to a whirlpool. Whirlpools affect not only the water immediately outside of the eye, but everything in its vicinity as well. Similarly, the metaphor suggests that as a soldier, Baumer doesn’t necessarily need to be at the front to feel its effects. The noise, thoughts, and experiences of the front line are carried with him, even when he is nowhere near it. This helps to develop the mood of the war and the way that it simply destroys anyone that comes in contact.

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Sophia Liu, Jenny Han, Natalie Woo, Caleb Park 

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Sophia Liu, Jenny Han, Natalie Woo, Caleb Park 

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“He put himself in positions with evident satisfaction, raised his arm like a signal-mast and his hand like a coal-shovel and fetched such a blow on the white sack as would have felled an ox” (Remarque 48).

The similes compare Haie’s arms to “a signal-mast” and his hands to “a coal-shovel”. The “coal-shovel” in the comparison is revealing how strong Haie’s arms are. The comparison suggests that the first object in the comparison has multiple abilities and traits. The comparison develops characterization of Haie by revealing his tasks in his positions which is revealed through the comparison of his arm. By Haie reaching with “evident satisfaction [...] like a signal-mast”, Remarque reveals Haie’s combatant during the blows towards Himmelstoss and his exaggerated and excited actions that he is taking to beat up Himmelstoss.