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I Am Up a Creek, A Very Big Creek
March 10th, 2009 by purcilly4
I am sitting here at the library , trying to find analysis on All Quiet on the Western Front, and there is not much useful. So, I am going to read a couple books within the next week, beginning with Marx’s Communist Manifesto and Mann’s Death in Venice. I think that Communist Manifesto will be the best option, because there is loads of criticism on the topic. Hopefully I can pull it together and put out a quality project, not one slapped together at the last minute by a procrastinating high school senior.
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I Have Started Reading!
March 8th, 2009 by purcilly4
So far my book has been rather bland. Through the first 90 to 100 pages, most of the writing is characterization. Erich Remarque puts a special emphasis on highlighting the positive characteristics of Stanislaus Katczynski (or Kat) and his relationship with Paul Bäumer, the narrator. Kat has been developed as not only a friend to Paul, but a brother and a father figure.
Remarque also makes evident the changes that one undergoes after enduring the war. The soldiers become hardened, almost to the point of indifference to human life. They become like robots, marching uniformly and doing as they are told to extinguish the enemy. The practical side of the soldier becomes far more important than the empathetic side of him.
I hope the book begins to pick up not only in action but in literary techniques and thematically. If this book is to work, I will need more to write about than what the dull first 100 pages provided.
Adam Purcilly
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