'All Quiet on the Western Front', by Erich Maria Remarque explores a number of issues related to the horrors of war. Which issue is most significant to you?

In the novel 'All Quiet on the Western Front', by Erich Maria Remarque, an overall devastating picture of war is created in the eyes of the reader, through the use of a highly evocative and descriptive style. Being an anti war book, 'All Quiet on the Western Front' includes many themes that emphasize the horrors of war. Amongst those themes are comradeship, deception and propaganda and alienation from society, but the strongest theme of them …

…Quiet on the Western Front' emphasizes the futility of war very effectively, through the use of descriptive styles as well as clever techniques and related themes. The strongest theme that conveys these tragic images and ideas and stands out throughout the novel is the theme of youth, in which the young characters of the same generation change from innocent children to over- experienced, old men, who find no other purpose to life but to survive.