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All Quiet on the Western Front : Theme Graphic Organizer Directions: Complete the chart below using the sample model for theme #1 as a reference. Be sure to provide at least two effective examples for each theme. You may use a direct quote or write an example in your own words. Theme Example Pg # Significance 1. Nature of Power (how individuals control others) (Sample: “The army is based on that; …a non-com. can torment a private, a lieutenant a non-com., a captain a lieutenant, until he goes mad. And because they know they can, they all soon acquire the habit more or less.”) 44 Men in positions of power often take advantage of those below them without having a real reason or purpose. When people are given power, especially those who have not had it before, they tend to lose perspective of what is right. It is the nature of power to overwhelm those who have it. 2. Dehumanization

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All Quiet on the Western Front:Theme Graphic Organizer

Directions: Complete the chart below using the sample model for theme #1 as a reference. Be sure to provide at least two effective examples for each theme. You may use a direct quote or write an example in your own words.

Theme Example Pg # Significance1. Nature of Power(how individuals control others)

(Sample: “The army is based on that; …a non-com. can torment a private, a lieutenant a non-com., a captain a lieutenant, until he goes mad. And because they know they can, they all soon acquire the habit more or less.”)

44 Men in positions of power often take advantage of those below them without having a real reason or purpose. When people are given power, especially those who have not had it before, they tend to lose perspective of what is right. It is the nature of power to overwhelm those who have it.

2. Dehumanization brought on by war

3. Horrors of war

4. Anti-war stance/ arguments against war5. Loss of innocence6. Alienation of a generation –

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the “Lost Generation” (disillusionment)7. People are the same everywhere

Style Graphic OrganizerDirections: Complete the chart below using the sample model for style #2 as a reference. Be sure to provide at least two effective examples for each theme. You must use direct quotes for the first two categories in this chart.

Style Example Pg # Significance1. Realistic – graphic, detailed, to the point, stark word choice (diction)

2. Poetic – use of figurative language (metaphor, simile, symbols, imagery, irony, tone, point of view, personification), arresting description to clarify what is being discussed

(Sample: “The gas still creeps over the ground and sinks into all the hollows. Like a big, soft jellyfish it floats into our shell-hole and lolls there obscenely.”)

69 Personification – the gas creeps Simile – gas compared to jellyfishIrony – soft, seemingly harmless creature that is deadly (this is also a good example of contrast)Imagery – creates a picture of the movement of the gas

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3. Contrasting – opposite detail either in wording, description, and/or scenes.