All Quiet on the Western Frint

All Quiet on the Western Front is a story about the horrors of World War I from the perspective of a German soldier named Paul. Throughout Paul’s service he sees and does horrible things, becoming disillusioned with the ideals of the German high command and of world leaders in general. This book makes it clear not only that the generation of boys and men that were sent out to fight feel betrayed by the previous generation and by their government, but also that there was a huge gap between the soldiers and everyone else around them.

All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque is a narrative describing World War I from a German soldier 's perspective. The story is narrated by Paul Baümer and predominantly revolves around the experiences of him and his comrades Kemmerich, Katczinsky, Kropp, Müller, and Leer. The novel begins with Paul Baümer and his friends in a cheerful mood as extra rations are being allocated to them due to the missing soldiers. During this event, Baümer introduces and describes the various personalities of his friends and his connection to them. Eventually, Baümer reflects back to the time how he and his friends had been coaxed into joining the war by their, patriotic school teacher, Kantorek only to later find out that they 've been lied to and the war isn 't even comparable to of what they 've been told. Instead, Paul Baümer and his school friends find themselves entrenched in the middle of bloody and what appears to be a pointless war.

The story of All Quiet On The Western Front centers on a young teenager, Paul Baumer the 19 year old German together with his 4 other classmates is persuaded to volunteer for the German army by enlisting at the beginning of World War I and find themselves fighting in the French warfare. The story is told entirely through the experiences of the young German recruits and highlights the tragedy of war through the eyes of an individual, Paul. Erich Maria Remarque creates the world of the ordinary German soldier in the Great War, spanning around late 1916 to just before the armistice of November 11th, 1918. It is a world of slaughter by gas

In the incredible book, All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, the reader follows Paul Baumer, a young man who enlisted in the war. The reader goes on a journey and watches Paul and his comrades face the sheer brutality of war. In this novel, the author tries to convey the fact that war should not be glorified. Through bombardment, gunfire, and the gruesome images painted by the author, one can really understand what it would have been like to serve on the front lines in the Great War. The sheer brutality of the war can be portrayed through literary devices such as personification, similes, and metaphors.

As mentioned previously, the story is told from Paul's point of view. This view of his is parallel to that of Remarque's. Remarque's characterization of paul and the other soldiers is intended to convey information and instruction to the reader. For example the way these characters are described instructs the reader in the needless suffering and loss brought on by war. The author makes a point about military leaders through one of the characters. Kropp notes about rise in rank, "As sure as they get a stripe or a star they become different men, just as though they'd swallowed concrete" (43). Kat mentions that military life brings out the worst in men, particularly the abuse of power over lesser men. This is a significant part that the author adds into the book because it illustrates a metaphor of the greater powers wanting to attack the weaker countries to gain more power; imperialism, which is one of the main causes of the war. In chapter 4, one of the most dramatic in the book,

World War I was one of the deadliest wars in human history, taking the lives of millions and changing the lives of countless more. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, 19- year-old German soldier Paul Bäumer strives to survive in the Western Front of World War I. Throughout the novel, the war forces Paul to change his character into a hopeless soldier that relies on instinct to only survive in battle. Once an ambitious and compassionate young man, the horrors, and anxieties of war induces Paul to detach his inner personality from reality forces him to focus on war. As a result, Paul struggled to understand himself and could not conceive a future without war, transforming his existence into an endless suffering, destroying Paul long before the war kills him.

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It is a story, not of Germans, but of men, who even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. The entire purpose of this novel is to illustrate the vivid horror and raw nature of war and to change the popular belief that war has an idealistic and romantic character.  The story centers on Paul Baümer, who enlists in the German army with glowing enthusiasm.  In the course of war, though, he is consumed by it and in the end is "weary, broken, burnt out, rootless, and without hope"  (Remarque page #).

While on leave, Paul also visits his father and some of his father's friends, but does not wish to speak to them about the war. The men are "curious [about the war] in a way that [Paul finds] stupid and distressing." They try to imagine what war is like but they have never experienced it for themselves, so they cannot see the reality of it. When Paul tries to state his opinion, the men argue that "[he] sees only [his] general sector so [he is] not able to judge." These men believe they know more about the war and this makes Paul feel lost. He realizes that "they are different men here, men [he] can not understand..." and Paul wants to be back with those he can relate to, his fellow soldiers. Paul wishes he had never gone on leave because out there "[he] was a soldier, but [at home] he is nothing but an agony to himself." When Paul returns to the battlefield, he is excited to be with his comrades. When he sees his company, "[Paul] jumps up, pushes in amongst them, [his] eyes searching," until he finds his friends. It is then

Paul wanted to comfort Kemmerich while he was dying because of his amputated leg, “I lean down over his face which lies in the shadow. He still breathes lightly. His face is wet, he is crying... The tears run down his cheeks. I would like to wipe them away, but my handkerchief is too dirty” (14). Paul and Kemmerich have grown closer together since they met and even though there was all the war noises outside the hospital, Paul still wanted to comfort Kemmerich and give him hope that he will return home. The second example of the theme, war brings people closer together, is when Kat and Paul decided to go catch a goose and cook it, “we sit opposite one another, Kat and I, two soldiers in shabby coats, cooking a goose in the middle of the night. We don’t talk much but I believe we have a more complete communion with one another than een lovers have” (42). Ever since the have met, Paul and Kat’s friendship has grown more and more and towards the end of the book, the author showed that they have grown closer to each other than even real couples. The war caused the soldiers to become family because they are all they have. When Kat got injured in the Front, Paul had to take care of him, “Kat is not very heavy;so I take him up on my back and start off to the dressing station with him” (128). Paul did not want to leave Kat alone to get a

The novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, is story of the fictional character Paul Baumer and his troop Troop 9 as they battle in World War I on the Western Front for Germany. This novel differs from most war novels in that it does not portray the men as valiant soldiers protecting their country. The way that the story is told strips away the romanticized view warfare and portrays the raw emotions that come with being on the front lines of a battle. As both Paul Baumer’s life and the battle progress, Paul’s values, along with those of the other soldiers, evolve until they culminate in Baumer’s own passing.

All Quiet on the Western Front is the story of Paul Baumer’s service as a soldier in the German army during World War I. Paul and his classmates enlist together, share experiences together, grow together, share disillusionment over the loss of their youth, and the friends even experience the horrors of death-- together. Though the book is a novel, it gives the reader

The French soldier dies an agonizingly painful and prolonged death; his gurgling and whimpering haunting Paul, but when the soldier finally dies, the resulting silence is even more haunting and debilitating. “Paul describes the trenches, the shelling, the screams of wounded horses and men, the poison gas attack, and the rain that drenches everything. [He] describes the tension and the horror of a major battle, with the confusion, the noise, and death turning the soldiers into numbed, unthinking machines.” (All). Paul recognizes how war forces people to think and act in ways that differ from their values and beliefs, as they are desperate to survive. Remarque uses imagery and sensory details to skillfully formulate a raw and grisly atmosphere that leaves no aspect hidden. Towards the end of the novel, many of Paul’s comrades have died, and he is the only person left in his class who is alive. He expresses the desolation and misery he feels, “I am very quiet. Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear.” (Remarque 295). Paul has nothing left to lose at this point, so he faces his enemies free of fear and obligation to return back to his friends and his home. His sorrowful tone conveys his indifference towards death and his desire

Erich Maria Remarque’s war novel All Quiet on the Western Front depicts the physical and mental struggle of the German Army during World War I. Through the telling of Paul Bäumer’s---a German soldier—story, Remarque brings to light the hardships of battle as well as the personal journey and comradery a soldier goes through while serving. Due to this in depth, raw look at a soldier’s life, the candidness of the soldier’s conversation tells a story not necessarily of nationalism, rather the questioning of why war exists and the point to it all. All Quiet on the Western Front opens the door into the world of the common soldier and their battle with not only the enemy, but also with why this battle is theirs to fight in the first place. Beyond this, they question what they gain from all this fighting and separation from civilian life. The soldier’s candor suggests a lack of nationalism and an aversion to authority that could be viewed as antigovernment and antimilitaristic ultimately leading to the books burning by the Nazis in 1930.

In the novel All Quiet On The Western Front written by Erich Remarque, the protagonist Paul deal's with the new ways of fighting in world war 1 as this war introduced multiple new ways to bring death and violence. He needs to adapt to living in the trenches, machine gun fire, and the constant fear of a shell landing on him.This novel portrays the ways in which living styles and weapons in war changed warfare for the worst, drastically increasing the brutality.

The most definitive feature of the first World War is trench warfare. The elaborate system of trenches controlled how all battles were fought, and how the war was waged as a whole. The novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, does an extraordinary job showing the reality and harshness of life on the front. The story is centered around Paul Bäumer, a young man who enlisted in the German Army with his school friends. Slowly but surely his school friends are killed or injured, leaving Paul utterly alone and unable to successfully deal with his emotions or any of the problems plaguing him. Not only is the front terrible, nobody else knows about how bad the war truly is. Civilians have no idea what the war is like, and even soldiers who have not been out to the front do not have a clear idea of it. The soldiers had to deal with fighting, yet since nobody else knew what war was like, they had nobody to talk to but themselves. This sounds like a fine situation, but due to the fact that most soldiers were young men, they had no previous experience to use to help them through any tough times they faced. The novel does a good job portraying a realistic image of life in Germany during World War I, due to its portrayal of the technology, the psychological trauma facing soldiers, the ignorance about the front, and the nationalistic views.