Review Of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet On The Western Front

Every sentence used has a reason for enhancing or furthering along a story, and in All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the words utilized are to help the audience better understand the gruesome events of war that Remarque witnessed himself while battling on the front. Remarque’s experiences from battle, pain suffered during combat, and the painful trauma that results from battling all strengthened the purpose for writing this novel. Remarque was drafted into the “German army at the age of eighteen” and actually spent time fighting on the Western Front during World War I (History.com). Paul Baumer, the protagonist in Remarque’s book, hears “the roar of guns [which] makes [his] lorry stagger, the reverberation rolls raging to the rear, everything

From his own appalling experiences, Remarque is able to put his own occurrences on paper so that the audience is able to understand the horrific events that went down during his deployment. Soldiers all suffer from pain that was inflicted during war, Remarque himself “was wounded no fewer than five times” and definitely played a big role in the book (History.com). Characters in the book, including Kemmerich, endured “a flesh wound in his thigh; a good blighty… [and] Kemmerich will never come out of this [hospital] again” and is lying on his deathbed (Remarque 10-14).The pain that Remarque dealt with clearly was displayed throughout the novel in order for the gallery of readers to enhance their knowledge on World War I and the soldier experience.Just about every soldier experiences some amount of post-trauma after the war and can cause the soldier to act out of shape. In 1918, after Erich was back home in Germany, he “suffered postwar trauma and disillusionment” which was caused by many of his personal regrets (cliffsnotes.com). Mental pain gets to every fighter in someway and can take a major toll on the soldiers