Commentary on Erich Maria Remarque´s Novel: All Quiet on the Western Front

Paul most clearly displays his strength on the each of these levels when a bombardment begins to rip apart the graveyard in which he and his comrades had been resting. A single reading of the passage reveals the first level upon which Paul excels: as a soldier. His training in No. 9 platoon under Corporal Himmelstoss made sure that he would not be killed the moment he stepped foot in the trenches, but the knowledge that he displays in this time of crisis did not come from parade grounds or noncommissioned officers; it came from months of trench warfare, from experience under fire, and from the natural instinct to make the right choices when it matters most. From the beginning of the passage, one can observe Paul’s course of action: he does not think, he reacts. From the moment the first shell lands, he begins gathering information: “By the light of the shells I try to get a view of the fields” (66). When his sleeve is torn away, he does not trust the fact that he feels no pain. Paul thinks: the fact “that [I feel no pain] does not reassure me: wounds don’t hurt until afterwards. I feel the arm all over. It is grazed but sound” (66). His actions reveal some of his soldiering merit, but not all.

Many movies like the 300 depict war as awesome and glorious that even though it ends in tragedy it still is more glorious than it actually is. Now take a book like All Quiet on the Western Front end in tragedy like the 300, but the difference is through the entire book never once does the author make war sound outstanding and awesome. “All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings- greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance. But no aims.” (Paul 294) He continues on to say that no one will understand what they went through and no one will understand their pain. He continues saying that no one will understand what they saw and that feeling of having no home and not being able to feel welcome in your own house. This quote shows that a soldier never is okay after a war because of how traumatic their experience is.

In All Quiet on the Western Front author and World War I veteran Erich Maria Remarque tells the story of a young soldier named Paul Bäumer who enlists in the German army with a group of his classmates. In the novel the reader comes discover the many horrors that Paul has to endure during his service before his untimely death in October 1918, only weeks before the war ended. The events that happen in the novel to Paul and his friends in his company during the war are very similar, if not identical, to what the German soldiers had to endure while World War I raged on in the real world. The way that the novel portrays the soldiers’ rations and reliance on food, their life on the front and in camp, how the young soldiers’ lives were destroyed before they even began, how the older generations pushed the younger ones to enlist, the death of soldiers in battle, and the refusal to surrender matches almost perfectly to how things were during World War I, particularly for the German soldiers.

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.

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.

In All Quiet On the Western Front, the protagonist, Paul Baumer faces the battle front in World War I, which brings out his fear of death. In the book, Paul is 20 year old German soldier who is called to fight in World War I. He is joined by many of his childhood friends such as, Tjaden, Kemmerich, Muller, Kat, Kantorek, Haie, Kropp, and Detering. Throughout the book, Paul’s group of friends die and he is the last one standing of his group. Additionally, Paul gains new experiences from the war such as guarding the prisoners of war. Paul learns a lot about his enemies through this. Additionally, Paul killed a man in battle, which made him feel terribly guilty. Since the war was very traumatizing, Paul, his friends and the other comrades bond,

All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Remarque is a novel dealing with one young mans transformation from an average person into a hardened man that eventually turns away from the society that he once was a part of. Remarque wrote this novel to emphasize the disorder and chaos that is created in war. This sense of disorder was felt within the soldiers as well as the civilians that have no part in the fighting. Civilians often had a glamorous portrayal of war that was preached to many but it soon became a harsh reality, the horror for the many that saw it.

In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front a special relationship exists between the author and the novel itself. Research notes that Erich Maria Remarque turned all of his life experiences into his writings, and that the novel is said to have sentimental insight to Remarque’s thoughts and feelings (“Remarque, Erich Maria” - Encyclopedia.com). Remarque, author of the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, portrays himself in his writings through the situations he places his characters in and those characters’ thoughts and reactions to the situations.

Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front has largely been considered as one of the most outstanding war novels which is significantly due to Remarque’s exposure of the reality of war through literary devices. Remarque utilizes the personification of death in order to establish how frequently the soldiers encounter death, the intensity of death at war, and how familiar death is to the soldier. In the beginning of the novel, the main group of comrades go to visit their close friend, who has just had his leg amputated, to see how he is doing and possibly cheer him up. When they arrive at his bed the narrator, Paul, describes his amputated leg and then his poor condition as his face appears strained and “under the skin life no longer

Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” Through experiencing war himself, Eisenhower stated that war destroys anyone who participates in it. The Great War or World War I was fought between the Allies and the Central Powers that used the extensive system of trenches. World War I lasted from 1914 to 1918 and many veterans who survived was left lost in society. Erich Maria Remarque, a German author, wrote the gripping war novel All Quiet on the Western Front, which demonstrates the effects of war on both sides of the conflict. This novel constructs a profound statement against war that focused young soldiers who were savagely affected

All quite by the western front is a novel which took place during World War I. This book explains and magnifies the horror or, dreadfulness of war. Throughout the book Enrich Remarque, through analyzing, explains and tries to get several points across. The book revolves around a young 19 year old boy named Paul Baumer, and his friends. They voluntarily joined to fight in the war, but by the end of the story, Paul realizes the gruesomeness of war.

The end of a life is the conclusion of a story. All life stories have periods of triumph and moments of darkness. Yet, Paul Bäumer of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front experienced more despair than joy at the end of his life. This sadness was an outcome of his many difficult times on the war front and his disheartening visit home. After the reader undergoes these events with Bäumer, the final scene of the novel that describes his death assumes a different meaning.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a powerful war novel that presents the theme of comradeship through war. The theme of comradeship embodies the idea that war has created a bond between the soldiers that is unbreakable and that they are closer than family on the home front. After Paul returns from his leave, he realizes that his fellow soldiers are the “most comforting thing there is anywhere”(212). In this quote Paul encounters the idea that his comrades are closer to him than his own life or family. His experiences in the war are shared by his fellow soldiers, these experiences cannot be shared with his family, which shows how much closer Paul is with his comrades than his family.

In the story “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque there is a man named Franz Kemmerich. He only appears in two chapters of the book, but he has a lasting memory throughout the book. Paul and Kemmerich went to school together they were at boot camp together. As Paul and his friends visit him, they realize the truth about war as he dies at the early age of 26. During Paul’s last visit to Kemmerich he didn’t want to accept that Kemmerich was already gone and it was only a matter of time. For Paul and friends this is only the first of many hard and tragic things to come.

What would you do to survive? Could you take another person’s life, to save your own? Would you be able to live with yourself if you took another’s life to have yours? “"All Quiet On The Western Front"” is a realistic fiction war story, written by Erich Maria Remarque. The author, Erich Maria Remarque, was a German soldier during World War 1, who had to survive during his brutal war experiences. During the war, he had to take people’s live while of the war front, and writing this book I one possible was he got past his experiences, and one way he was able to show others the brutality of war. The book was published on January 29, 1929, in between World War 1 and World War 2. In his book, he wrote the story of Paul Baumer, a German soldier during World War 1, who fought on the French front during the war, who also had to survive in brutal situations and events. It is written in first person, with Paul being the narrator, so we see his thoughts and feelings alone. The book goes along through Paul’s life, experience, and journey through and during World War 1. It starts with Paul and some of his friends wanting to join the German Army and fight in the war, but they soon learn about how devastating war is, which is what the book begins to focus on. It begins to focus on how devastating war, specifically on how war affects a soldier's humanity. The idea that soldiers fight to survive, instead of for their country, is also repeated. While themes in the book, and how the story is