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A 5 page essay/reaction paper to the final episodes of Edgar Reitz’s epic 1984 fifteen-hour, TV series, Heimat: Eine Deutsche Chronik (Homeland: A Chronicle of Germany) which carry the narrative into the post-World War II era, concluding in the early 1980s. In these final episodes, Reitz underscores themes, often mirroring earlier action, and establishing a cyclical feel to the life of the village. However, while the action shows how each successive generation tends to mirror its predecessors, Reitz also makes the point that modernity imposes a form of alienation in which the ideal of “heimat” seems not so much lost forever, as misplaced by the generation coming after Maria, Eduard and the family patriarchs, Katharina and Mathias Simon. The earlier episodes of this series are discussed in khheimat.rtf and khheima2.rtf. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the post-World War II era, concluding in the early 1980s. In these final episodes, Reitz underscores themes, often mirroring earlier action, and establishing a cyclical feel to the life of
the village. However, while the action shows how each successive generation tends to mirror its predecessors, Reitz also makes the point that modernity imposes a form of alienation in which
the ideal of "heimat" seems not so much lost forever, as misplaced by the generation coming after Maria, Eduard and the family patriarchs, Katharina and Mathias Simon. This is
dramatized in a variety of ways that Reitz develops over the course of the section of the saga. Picking up the story after the war, episode eight focuses on Paul
Simon finally returning to Schabbach. He arrives with considerable pomp in a shiny, large American car and a black chauffer. Paul walks in front of the car through the village,
as his driver comes behind him with the car. Reaching the Simon smithy, he glances through the window just as he did when he returned from World War I. His
father, however, is not at his forge, which clearly what Paul expects. On several occasions, Paul indicates that, in his mind, the village never changed. Therefore, he is frequently
surprised by change. To him it is has if the village and his family stayed frozen as they were in 1928. In his absence, his father grew frail and died,
and his sons grew up. Paul says that it never occurred to him that his sons would have fought in the war. He also seems surprised when Maria does not
welcome back into her bed. He asks if Otto stands between them and she indicates that twenty years stand between them. The point that Reitz is apparently trying to make
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