"All quiet on the western front"

The Screaming of the Wounded Horses Horses played a significant role in World War 1. Cars were not used all that often because of the noise they produced, so horses had to transport provisions to any place that a train could not reach. In the novel, when the horses were hit during the bombardment, their screaming affected all of the men who could hear it. By reading the novel and researching World War 1, it can be …

…novel that showed that the soldiers were still human. It showed how they had to throw aside their emotions in order to fulfill their duties toward the fatherland. The screaming of the wounded horses helped to give back human qualities that many of the men lost with their life experiences. It is important symbolically because the characters were beginning to develop robot-like personalities, all the same because of their time spent at the front. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------