Answer: Though he is not central to the novel’s plot, Kantorek is an important figure as a focus of Remarque’s bitter critique of the ideals of patriotism and nationalism that drove nations into the catastrophe of World War I. Kantorek, the teacher who filled his students’ heads with passionate rhetoric about duty and glory, serves as a punching bag as Remarque argues against those ideals. Though a modern context is essential to the indictment of Kantorek’s patriotism and nationalism, Kantorek’s physical description groups him with premodern evil characters. The fierce and pompous Kantorek is a small man described as “energetic and uncompromising,” characteristics that recall the worried Caesar’s remarks about Cassius in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. / He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous” (I.ii.195–196). Napoleon also springs to mind as a historical model for Kantorek.
The inclusion of a seemingly anachronistic literary type—the scheming or dangerous diminutive man—may seem out of place in a modern novel. Yet this quality of Kantorek arguably reflects the espousal of dated ideas by an older generation of leaders who betray their followers with manipulations, ignorance, and lies. “While they taught that duty to one’s country is the greatest thing,” Paul writes in Chapter One, “we already knew that death-throes are stronger.” As schoolboys, Paul and his friends believed that Kantorek was an enlightened man whose authority derived from his wisdom; as soldiers, they quickly learn to see through Kantorek’s rhetoric and grow to despise him, especially after the death of Joseph Behm. That Kantorek is eventually drafted and makes a terrible soldier reflects the uselessness of the ideals that he touts.
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“The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow describes a coastal scene. The tide rises, and the tide falls. Its twilight, a bird is calling, and a traveler is leaving the shore, heading for a near town. Now it's dark, the sea is shouting, and the waves erase the traveler's footprints from the shore. Despite this disconsolate perspective, the dawn does come again. There are signs of life everywhere. Horses are ready and raising to go; a hostler is calling out. Sure, the traveler will never return to the shore because he's dead, but the tide rises again, and then… well, the tide falls.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807 and died on March 24, 1882. He was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the four Fireside Poets from New England.
The mood that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s use of repetition in “the tide rises, the tide falls” help to create is:
Acceptance
By repeating the phrase “the tide rises, the tide falls” the author presents the idea of the inexorability of destiny and life. If one cannot change destiny, therefore one must accept life for what it is.
Some say that we are too weak to fight Britain. The opposition may have thought that just a small potential country of 13 colonies and a relatively small population without all the resources and the military might of the British Empire would not stand a chance of defeating such an apparently strong power. Such a case if it were presented would not take into account the law of history that where there is oppression there is resistance and that fighting for a just cause can overcome most obstacles partly because the unity of those fighting is much greater than those fighting for the oppressors.
The first option. This is because it’s a direct quote from the german officers to them passengers, ergo, his opinions and thoughts. It also states the awful conditions they were put in, as well as a comparison to an animal.
