All Quiet On The Western Front Summary

World War I, was a very brutal war, where a lot of people were killed and a great number of these people were effected by the war. The war is a very awful time and many of the soldiers are seeing friends and other people killed. All Quiet on the Western Front, is a novel about life on the Western Front in World War I, told in the point of view of Paul, a German soldier. Paul gives many details about what life was like for him and the other soldiers on the front. The prologue of this book captures what the soldiers experienced on the front. "This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war.” The prologue captures the experience of the men on the front in a few different points, the mens time during the war and when they are back home. First, the book tells about the experiences of the soldiers at the front, during many different battles and also while

Paul returns to his hometown, but he relives the horrors of war and does not interact with anyone else that well. He does not feel that he can talk about what he lived through during the war. Paul, like many people become very accustom to watching people die and Paul sees that he has changed. Many people who survive the war have serious symptoms of PTSD, and other postwar diseases. When people first showed symptoms of these diseases, people did not know what it was, or they thought it was faked. The soldiers went through and watched many horrors which effected them permanently. People who did not fight in the war did not see what horrors all the men went through and they do not know about the amount of death and