All Quiet on the Western Front

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Erich Maria Remarque in his realistic novel All Quiet on the Western Front, written in 1928, dramatizes how the unrelenting power of war ultimately results in the death of childhood and the birth of manhood in the men of the war. Paul Baumer, the protagonist, has a first hand view of the destructiveness of war, which took his companions, his life and his innocence. With the loss of innocence of …

…the world of hatred and bloodshed. The innocence lost by the boys on the western front has changed them into men, forlorn and forgotten. The innocent have lost their lives but most lost their purity to the destruction and devastation of the war. Paul Baumer says it best when he described himself and all the soldiers on the western front- “we are forlorn like children and experienced like old me, I believe we are lost.”