All Quiet on the Western Front

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…s class are left. They hope for an armistice to bring peace. Paul is unsure if he has fully subdued all the life within him, but feels it will "seek its own way out" somehow. In third-person narration, we learn that Paul died in October, 1918, on a day otherwise so calm that the army report merely stated "All quite on the Western Front." Paul's face seemed calm, "as though almost glad the end had come."