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This 4 page paper discusses the in which the older and younger generations react to the "Great War." Bibliography lists 1 source.
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of the horrors of war in the trenches and the ultimate pointlessness of the soldiers sacrifice is both infuriating and unbearably sad. Although there are many themes that we
could examine with regard to this novel, this paper concentrates on the way in which the older and younger generations react to the "Great War." Discussion There is almost
always a "disconnect" between older and younger people with regard to war. At times the older veterans are disenchanted and try to tell the younger generation that war is
to be avoided; at other times the vets remember their service as being the most intense experience of their lives; sometimes the young are eager, and sometimes they are hesitant.
And sometimes, as now, an older generation is sending the younger one to die in a questionable cause, and it is this model that most closely matches the situation
in Remarques book. In All Quiet on the Western Front there is a similar disconnect and its largely embodied in the character of Kantorek, the schoolmaster, though the
Kaiser also serves a similar function. Early in the book, Remarques hero, Paul B?umer, describes Kantorek as "a stern little man in a grey tail-coat, with a face like
a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original observation with him, of
course) and that he avoids serving in units with little men in command, because they are "mostly confounded little martinets" (Remarque, 1987, p. 11). We are already expecting Kantorek to
be a disagreeable character, just from this short description, and indeed he is. We find that he kept lecturing his students to join the army until "the whole of
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