All Quiet On The Western Front tells the desolate tale of Paul Baumer and his comrades. They are fresh out of high school and enter World War I fighting on the side of Germany. As the story unfolds, Paul shares how the war has changed him, and how devastatingly powerful the impacts of war are on man. Paul will come to question his purpose in the war, and learn that he is simply a pawn for his nation. Germany condemned an entire generation of young men to death, and this is the story of how Paul Baumer and his comrades were egregiously betrayed by their home country. Millions of men were fed nationalistic rhetoric that this fight would be easily won and they would be welcomed home as glorious heroes, but this was false. Germany misled these …show more content…
Paul and his comrades go on to speculate about this disappointing display, and further the conversation on the topic of the war and its relevance to them. They are all in agreement that this war is being fought for those in power and not in the interest of the people. Paul and his comrades understand that they are not fighting against those they hold grievances towards, but rather those that have been stuffed with the same propaganda they have been. To make matters worse, once the Kaiser departs, they are all ordered to return their brand new uniforms. Paul and his comrades have been let down by their nation's own figurehead, and have been forced to refund the one rare sliver of joy that they received. By the end of the book all of Paul's comrades are dead, and his own death will mark the conclusion of the story. Paul perishes just one month before the war ends, clouding his death with a deep sense of irony. He spent years surviving in appalling living conditions, brutally killing men, only for his death to come on a quiet, peaceful afternoon. Paul does not die fighting, he does not die from the gas, but simply from a lone
Emarque develops this theme throughout the novel by explaining how men who don't know each other can work together and get along. They do this by comparing things to each other so they can relate and show that they are all in the same situation. In the book the men have a hard time at first because they are not used to what is happening around them and war is not what they were told it would be like. It is very sad to think about how the war was back in the day because things just weren't the same
War can wound and burn, but it can also heal. In the book, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque presents this, and then some--a thoroughly unsightly image of war-guttural, jagged landscapes of emotion, meandering rivers of humanity, and acrid pictures of the soldier's experience. Set starkly in WWI, it focuses on the brutality and senselessness of war, even going so far as to vividly depict scenes of viscera, gore, and trench warfare (how synonymous those three may be). It has no
Britain were pulled into the fighting because of treaties they had signed which stated that if war broke out that they would come to the support of France and Russia. A first-hand account of the war and all of its travesties was published by a man named Remarque in his book All Quiet on the Western Front, where he recounts a fictional retelling of what the soldiers
Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is an abstruse proclamation against war, which focuses especially on the destroying effects of war on soldiers’ humanity. Romantic ideals of warfare are under attack throughout Paul’s narration. The novel depicts the detachment between rhetoric about patriotism and honor and the real horror of trench warfare (Julie Gilbert, 1995). The author constantly underlines that the soldiers do not fight for hypothetical believes of patriotic spirit; they
All Quiet on the Western Front In this novel, Remarque thoroughly outlines the horrors of war. Remarque identified young, inexperienced boys who have joined up from the same class as volunteers for WWI. The narrator, Paul Baumer, becomes closely acquainted to his friends and soon, they develop a strong bond. This bond will help one another throughout the book and will cause many of them to maintain some of their sanity and to be there for each other, no matter the circumstance. Remarque also expresses
The Brutal Truth of War All Quiet On the Western front by Erich Maria Remarque is book about a group of young german boys from a small town that are sent to fight one of the most deadly wars of all time. During this time they are mental exposed to the brutal truth of war. Remarque uses Similes and Metaphors to express just how brutal war can be. By using these Rhetorical Devices to show visually imagery of what the brutal truth of war is. By using these literary devices the Author clearly expresses
the boy, walling out everything external to his selfish world, paternal obligation included. Meyers's tendency toward insularity is not, of course, unique among the characters in Cathedral or among the characters of earlier volumes. In Will You Be Quiet, Please? there is the paranoid self-cloistering of Slater and Arnold Breit, and in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love we read of James Packer's cantankerous,self-absorbed disgruntlement about life's injustices. In Cathedral appear other, more