Writing Extension

Dear mother,

Hello. How are you doing? I’m doing wonderful over here in the field. I have all of my friends around me and our side seems to be overturning the enemies. I’m getting to experience at full what it is like to be in combat. Although many of our men die every die, I prevail. I’m getting to use a bunch of newly industrialized weapons such as the machine guns, the flamethrowers, and the tanks. If I’m lucky, I might be shipped to one of the submarine crews so that my job isn’t as dangerous.
I’m getting plenty of food and water over here on the front. Our ammunition and food is plentiful enough for everyone to have some. I have met some new friends and some of the old ones as you well know because of the last letter. We don’t have much to do out here when there isn’t any action, but we do play cards and I’m on a winning streak. Well I have to get some sleep while I can. Hope you write back.

Love,
Your son Albert

Geniocracy
Chorus:Let the wars cease.

Walk down the road to peace.

Say goodbye to hypocrisy.

Say hello to geniocracy.

Military in the USSR getting brainwashed by means of depersonalization.

What will this mean for the next generation?

Trained to shoot anything that is considered a threat, both imagined and real.

Through intelligence, can there be a better way to deal?

Chorus

To govern is to foresee.

But, the world is such a mess. How can this be?

The politicians can study all they want in their colleges and their schools.

But, it's not how much knowledge you put in your brain,

it's how you use that knowledge that should be the golden rule.

Chorus

If scientists had created a paralyzing wave

how many lives in the wars would have been saved?

Too much emphasis is placed on our memory when we learn.

If our intelligence doesn't develop, we may as well allow our brains to burn.

Chorus

Take away the importance of money.

As we usually put finances before personal values. Isn't that funny?

Living our lives in greed. What are we thinking of?

Change the world into one made of science, genius, peace and love.

Chorus

I don't want to live in a world that's blind.

Wasting my time.

This world blows my mind.

I feel that this poem mimics Paul’s feelings and emotions perfectly because he, as well as the narrator of the poem, feels that war should just end, not that one side should win through the deaths of the enemy, but that it should all just end and be done with. Throughout the poem it talks of similarities between the narrator’s feelings and Paul’s feelings such as every body basically being brainwashed and to think only as a killing machine shooting and killing anything that is considered a threat. The narrator also talks about how he wonders how the war will affect the next generation which is also portrayed in Paul’s feelings about younger and younger men being recruited to help fight in the war every day. Overall the poem is a perfect representation of Paul’s feelings throughout the book.

This picture reflects the book in the sense that it explains that war is senseless and that many lives are sacrificed of those who did not want any part of the terrible thing known as war. For example, there are many dead bodies lying throughout the fields where death is a common factor of living. This explains that everyone is dieing even though they might not have wanted to be in the war and the death of one person may mean the salvation of another. Also depicted in the picture are two men on horses who seem to be wondering around the battlefield at ease looking for the few survivors. This just means that they also have to endure the sight of those torn apart by war where death has consumed them bringing pain to their eyes and hearts. War is senseless and just causes killing of no means whatsoever which could be easily solved with non-violence negotiation or some other form of treaty.