Meditation 17 AQOTWF by J. Peverly

Meditation XVII + All Quiet on the Western Front

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Bell

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Continent

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Currency

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Book

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Death

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Choir Singing

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Unison

Relation 2

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In the book, All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul and his friends act as a family. When one of them is hurt, all of the others also feel the pain, and try to help. This makes them like a unit, or entity. In Meditation XVII, John Donne says that all of humanity is an entity, and when one person dies, everyone is affected.

Relation 3

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In Meditation XVII John Donne says “Neither can we call this a begging of misery, or a borrowing of misery, as though we were not miserable enough of ourselves, but must fetch in more from the next house, in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours.” This relates to All Quiet on the Western Front because when one person is hurt, the rest try to help by taking the misery off of them, and helping them get back.

Relation 1

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In Meditation XVII John Donne says “If a man carry treasure in bullion, or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current money, his treasure will not defray him as he travels. Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it, except we get nearer and nearer our home, heaven, by it. Another man may be sick too, and sick to death, and this affliction may lie in his bowels, as gold in a mine, and be of no use to him; but this bell, that tells me of his affliction, digs out and applies that gold to me: if by this consideration of another's danger I take mine own into contemplation, and so secure myself, by making my recourse to my God, who is our only security.” This means that when they die, the heavens will use their pain as a determination of how good they are. This relates to All Quiet on the Western Front because in the book, the group is pained, and they believe when they die, they think it will all be worth it by the amount of pain they have endured.

Relation 4

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In All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul and the gang all feel sad when one of them dies, and Paul even feels sad when the enemy writer dies in front of him. In Meditation XVII, John Donne says, “any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee” This relates because even though an enemy's bell is tolling, it still tolls for Paul.

Relation 5

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In All Quiet on the Western Front, the German army is considered a single entity, and acts as one, and everyone is together. In Meditation XVII, John Donne says that, “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” This relates directly to the army because they act as part of the main.

Relation 6

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In All Quiet on the Western Front, Kemmerich dies early on in the book, and is referenced later in the book in other formats, such as memories they shared. In Meditation XVII, John Donne says, “when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; ” This relates because when Kemmerich died, he was translated to a memory.

Relation 7

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In Meditation XVII, John Donne says that, “The bell doth toll for him that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute that this occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God. Who casts not up his eye to the sun when it rises? but who takes off his eye from a comet when that breaks out? Who bends not his ear to any bell which upon any occasion rings? but who can remove it from that bell which is passing a piece of himself out of this world?” This means that when a big thing happen, anywhere, everyone will see. In All quiet on the Western Front, it shows when things like half the German army blowing up, everybody, even from different countries notice.

Background

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