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completely turned into a stranger to society. However, once Remarque establishes the potato-pancakes’ original meaning, he quickly abandons it as Paul finally rejects his mother’s last effort to reestablish their relationship. Paul is again given potato pancakes by his mother, despite his family struggling to pay for his mother’s cancer treatments, but then develops “no taste for them”, prompting him to “give them to the Russians” (Remarque 198). Although he realizes “that [his] mother cooked them

feeling of people joining in the wars really is. But we can somewhat understand that feeling through war novels, which describe the truthfulness of the soldiers’ lives, thoughts, feelings and experiences. All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, which takes World War I as background, is the great war novel which talks about the German soldiers ' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the hopeless of these soldiers about the “future” – the time the war would have ended

Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a group of German soldiers and their experience as soldiers during World War I. Paul Baumer, the main character, and his friends, Stanislaus Katczinsky, Albert Kropp, and Mueller, whiteness extreme brutality and bloodshed unfold around them, as the war begins to take its toll on each character one by one, fighting in the trenches of WWI. Remarque tells the audience of the intensity of the war, as well as the horrors that the characters

sometimes almost go out.” (Remarque 275) In the novel All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the main character Paul and his friends have to go through brutal scenes and moments while fighting in World War 1. Unlike most people going through early adulthood, Paul and his friends are forced to murder and kill, all while trying to keep their own sanity. While fighting, the soldiers have to face many physical challenges along with mental challenges. Erich Maria Remarque shows physiological

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque 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

happiness in life. Through the experiences that the soldiers encounter, their humanity is compromised. Thus, as war strips soldiers of their innocence, they start to become disconnected from themselves and others. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque illustrates the negative effects war has on a soldier’s humanity, through his use of Paul’s books and the potato pancakes by revealing the soldiers loss of emotion that causes them to become detached from society. Through these symbols they

“We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial, I believe we are lost” (Remarque 123). World War I is a tragic event that occurred in 1914 to 1918. Paul Baumer and the rest of the soldiers in the novel of “All Quiet in the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque are lost; they are broken from the fist World War, they don’t know anything aside from War, and they have lost their innocence during the years of maturation. When the young men heard

belief is World War I, which was fought between the Central Powers and Allies and infamous for its devastating repercussions and savage warfare that occurred from 1914 to 1918. In his historical fiction novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque describes the traumatic and deadly war conditions of WWI from the perspective of a German soldier named Paul Baumer, who provides readers with firsthand insight on war’s atrocious nature. Nonetheless, war’s violence did not deter nations and

seen within the loss of land, wealth and the numbers of lives lost. There are few accounts of the true losses felt from war, the loss felt by the survivors and the true cost of human life. In the excerpt from All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, illustrates the impact on human life and question what the cost of human life was impacted. While Vera Brittain memoir of Memory and Battlefield Tourism, recounts her pain felt as a survivor. The cost of war is not only a calculated number

can tremendously impact the meaning and purpose of their pieces of literature. In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the author’s style of writing has an extensive impact on how readers perceive the story. Remarque was a soldier during World War I, providing him with first hand experience on the effects of war. These past experiences allow him bring the novel alive using his memories. Erich Maria Remarque’s style of writing has a colossal effect on the novel because of the