![]() ![]() Robert Ross is presented as a sensitive, caring person who is enriched with morals and values, loved animals and thought war as insane. Transformation in characters could be seen in both sources as they step into the war. The wars and All Quiet on the Western Front set forth destructiveness of war on humanity, innocence, mental and physical health and give powerful visualization of terrible living conditions of soldiers in war. In this regard both sources are war drama, one commencing with fight against guilt and grief and other with notion of pride and honor which leads them to war, eventually breaking all the notions and ending into death. ![]() These young adults were persuaded to go to the war by their teacher in the name of the glory of their country and German culture without realizing the awfulness of war. Paul Baumer, main character of the film along with his school friends’ leave for the front soon after the war begins, to fight for the honor of his fatherland. The Wars novel by Timothy Findley published in 1977 portrays Robert Ross as Canadian Soldier fighting an internal war of self-condemnation after his sister Rowena’s death and the movie All Quiet on the Western Front directed by Delbert Mann (1979) based on the novel of the same name written by Erich Maria Remarque depicts the dark reality of the war as experienced by the soldiers in the warzone fighting to survive. ![]()
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