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All Quiet on the Western Front and A Long Long Way Home

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Theme: They represent the fleetingness of life (brutality of war)
Link: Pluck -Eva D

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Theme:  Brutality of war through loss of comrades
Link: Gas Attack -Choman

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Willie returns to his regiment. We find out the Tommy Weekes has been killed. Willie is given one of his books to keep. Major Stokes commits suicide. The Germans sing Silent Night and Willie joins in. He is shot unexpectedly and dies in the trench. Willies's father writes to him but it arrives after his death and is returned to him. Willie is buried in the trench where he dies

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Paul Bäumer is killed on a quiet day on the Western Front.

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For a long time, Willie stays innocent and sensitive through the war, but is then faced with a decision to lose his life or take the life of someone else. For the sake of survival, kills a German soldier. He then realizes how terrible the war is and is filled with remorse, so he digs a grave and buries the soldier he killed.

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Paul returns to the front line only to witness the death of all his friends. They were collateral damage to the world leaders. Paul suffers a lot of emotional pain and turmoil and the futility of war breaks his heart.

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The epitome of the war is reached when Willie and his friends return to the battlefield in the most brutal battle in our novel.

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Paul realizes that the war is meaningless and all the soldiers are risking their lives and will gain nothing from it, since his country will not win the war.

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Willie is soft and immature and his problems at the beginning of our novel seem trivial: Gretta not writing back and privacy at camp.
Willie later becomes less emotional about his experiences and he notices the harsh realities of the war.

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Paul is a young man who enlists in the war for the honour of fighting.
In the beginning of our novel he is sensitive and interested in poetry and the arts, but eventually becomes hardened and desensitised to the realities of war.

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Theme: Political agendas
Link: Easter 1916
-W.B. Yeats

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Theme: Loss of innocence
Link: Lament - F.S. Flint

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Theme: Loss of innocence
Link: War Horse

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Themes: Brutality of war
Loss of innocence
Links: War Horse
An Irish Airman Foresees

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The exposition of this novel is where Willie is still at home in Dublin and we learn about his past and childhood. This is also when we learn of his ambitions to join the war.

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The novel starts where the soldiers are standing in line to receive their food and the cook says that he is unable to provide extra rations for the remaining soldiers, which immediately shows us the brutality of war.