Part one of term paper
“All Quite on the Western Front” is a novel about World War I and how it stole the innocence of the soldiers involved in the war. The main character in this novel is Paul. At the start of the war he is a nineteen year old teenager with no grasp of war. By the last chapter he has sawn more then any man should ever have to see in two li ...

Part two of term paper
... whirlpool." The definition of a whirlpool is a "whirling eddy or current, as in a river or sea, causfed by irregularity in the channel or stream banks, by the meeting of two opposing currents." Paul uses this as a metaphor to describe the front because he feels trapped in the front by the two opposing currents of war that will slowly bring him to its center. The conditions at the front are terrifying. As the narrator puts it, "It is unendurable. It is the moaning of the world, it is the martyred ...