A Damp Sun

A beautiful sky lit across the spectrum with glazing colors, burning orange and passionate red, reflecting
against marshmellow clouds, an almost iddylic situation. You think to yourslf “were are the birds
fluttering by and singing there sweet song ?” “were are the children playing in the meadow of vibrant
green?” Then suddenly the picture clears, not burning orange or passionate red, it’s a dull sickening
haze, a certain burning sensation reaches your eyes and they sting, not a vibrant meadow, but a gray
bloodied wastleand littered with the bodys of the freshly slain and not so fresh. The clods are no longer
marshmellow but the dark black of anti-aircraft flak. You look up to the sky and see a damp sun. Erich
Maria Remarques’s Novel “All Queit on the Western Front” is a book of, much like the grizzly scence
depicted above, contrast.The novel explores the horrid reality of Paul Baumer and his friends as they
reaslize that war is not what there schoolteacher told them what it was. Through out there stay on the
western front fighting allied frensh British forces they discover everything has two faces, everything
contrasts.From wartorn trenches to desolate villages and bloody hospitals Paul sees stark Contrasts in
evverything from the sadness of losing a life long friend to the joy of getting his superoir boots .

Body paragraphs:

Paul wonders if there will ever be a respite from the war from employed to unemployed/ this isnt what
they said it would be

There are two faces to everything from the “glory” of war to the sickening horro of it

Family or camaraderie: were will you go when the war is over and what will you do ?

Conclusion

A double edged sword hurts everyone, contrasts shed new light and allow you to trudge on but they
also cripple you, you benefit and suffer form them