Friday, October 8, 2010
"MY" boots
Franz Kemmerick's death perfectly exemplifies the use of dehumanization in the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front". A man and friend dies and the only member that actually acknowledged it was Paul. Kemmerick's fancy boots created a dense fog around his death, Mueller was to occupied on taking those boots home he never even realized his friend was dying. In the end you realize that you aren't the one dead and that you have to get on with life. War turns men into very different people it makes you see things for what they are and Mueller saw Kemmerick's death as a shopping spree in Wal-mart or pay-less.
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I like your comment very much. You may have gone "over the top" (irony intended) with the Walmart thing, but the dehumanization part is on target.
ReplyDeleteThis is clever, although those boots are too nice to be found in a pay-less.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your opinion Augustine.
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