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All Quiet on the Western Front1.The summary of the story The film talks about a group of German youths devoted to the First World War battlefield at the call of the patriotic president , who used their hero worship and patriotism . These young people who experienced a short military training became stunned when they saw many wounded soldiers from the front lines at the station .After all ,the difference between the ideal and reality is so amazing .During the war , these youths were accompanied by corpses and rats . The cruel and destructive war had shattered their heroism , they began to doubt the ideal over the past and disgusted or even hatred the war. At the end , hero Paul’s classmates in front of the battlefield were both died .and Paul passed away when he was drawing the bird in October 1918 , that the front was so calm and quiet. In a word , the story express the people’s reflection of war and the emotion of anti-war. 2.The theme of the storyThe film shows the bloody and atrocities of the First World War. It performs the tragic fate of the generation who couldn’t escape from the shrapnel attack.It also expresses the people’s reflection of the war and the emotion of anti-war. 3.What did two ‘birds’ represent respectively?The first bird represents the eagerness of being a hero.The second bird represents the anticipation of the peace.4.Explain the hero’s instant decision to return back to the front.After the war ,the hero found that he had been another one . His attitudes toward the war and the world had changed a lot. His real home became the front lines , and his real family is his comrade-in-arms.5.The most prominent quality of Germany the story showsCritical spirit: the hero’s thinking of the war and his change of the attitudes towards the battle. Patriotic spirit: the soldiers are volunteer to join the army to protect their fatherland. Goodness: Paul’s attitudes towards the enemy who was killed by him.6.The difference between Chinese war film and