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Using the book "All Quiet on the Western Front" chose a passage in either chapter 4 or 5 which depicts the usage of a literary devise (personification, imagery, simile etc...) examine how this passage contributes to the development of the readers understanding of teh novel and development of theme.

Essay Instructions: My paper is a book review on All Quiet on the Western Front. In the paper I need to answer these three questions. What is the author saying about a specific historical experience? How much does the character Paul Baumer's experience conform to the popular views of the war on the home front in Germany? What would be lost from our understanding of history if such novelistic accounts were unread?...These questions are basically what the paper will be about...You must answer all three questions in any order..Please include 2 quotes in the paper

Essay Instructions: I need a brief one page response in which the relationship between on work to another is explored, making connections and comparisons between main characters in the following questions:

1. The Search For Meaning: Using (Orwell's 1984, All Quiet on the Western Front, Grendel) The main characters in these works search for meaning -- meaning in their lives, in existence. What does the main character in each work search for and what he or she learns. What is the author trying to tell us about the meaning of our lives through his main character?

2. Establishing One's Identity: The identity of the protagonish is of central importance to each of these works -- Who is the individual? What is important to him or her? What does he or she value? Does his or her identity have value in the end? Using (Orwell's 1984, All Quiet on the Western Front, Grendel, Beowulf)

3. Political Power and Its Dangers: The main characters in these works (Owell's 1984, All Quiet on the Western Front) experience effects and dangers of people in power. What does the government and its leaders expect of its people? And how can they miss use their power and at what cost to the people?

4. Isolation and the Need to Belong: The main characters in these works struggle in their sense of isolation and have a strong need to belong. In what way is each character isolated? And Why? How does this isolation affect the character? In what way is this individual an outsider or different? Is this need to belong fulfilled?

I need a brief one page response to each of these answering the questions -- I will be adding to it when I recieve this

Essay Instructions: This essay has two parts: Using specific examples from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Kidnapped" and Erich Maria Remarque's novel "All Quiet on the Western Front," describe Western Civilization's progress towards modernism. And, how did Paul Tillich come to grips with the modern world in his novel "Dynamics of Faith?" VERY IMPORTANT LAST-MINUTE INSTRUCTIONS WHICH SHOULD NOT BE IGNORED BECAUSE THEY ARE CRUCIAL TO THE ESSAY: 1. NO INTERNET SOURCES, printed sources only 2. Third-person point of view only 3. DO NOT USE A LOT OF QUOTES, seeing as that this is a short assignment, one or two will be fine but no more than that.