all quiet on the western front

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…institutions as the family, the schools, and the church. Moreover, the war is so chaotic that it infects the basic abilities, not the least of which is verbal, of humanity itself. By showing how the First World War deleteriously affects the syntax of language, Remarque is able to demonstrate how the war irreparably alters the order of the world itself. WORK CITED Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. New York: Ballantine Books, 1984.