All Quiet On The Western Front 3

Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is not about men, but of German soldiers and their hardships during World War I and how their attitudes changed throughout the war. “We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war”(p.88). This novel portrays the overwhelming effects and power war has to deteriorate the human spirit, scar physically, and scar mentally. You start out leaving you’re home and family proud …

…was no sugar coating what so ever. It is able to show all aspects of the actual war and has left a clean-cut picture of just how horrific war actually is. The readers of this novel can now understand just why that there is really no true point to war. Whoever said that killing millions of people over pride and territory is not too bright. The novel began with pride and ended with unbearable agony.