All Quiet On the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It is a story, not of Germans, but of men, who even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. The entire purpose of this novel is to illustrate the vivid horror and raw nature of war and to change the popular belief that war is an idealistic and romantic character. The story centers on Paul Baumer, who enlists in the German army with glowing enthusiasm. But in the course of war, he is consumed by it and in the end is "weary, broken, burnt out, rootless, and without hope." Through Baumer, Remarque examines how war makes man inhuman. He uses excellent words and phrases to describe crucial details to this theme. "The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts." Baumer and his classmates who enlisted into the army see the true reality of the war. They enter the war fresh from school, knowing nothing except the environment of hopeful youth and they come to a premature maturity with the war, their only home. "We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. We are not youth any longer." They ha
Baumer would destroy him because he threatens his survival and his survival is most important. " He has rid himself of all feelings and thoughts. " This is how Baumer feels, he cannot relate with men who have not fought the war. Baumer not only believes this but also reinforces this idea with every shot he that fires and every man he that kills. The only way for you to live is to destroy him before he does destroys you. He wants to live at all costs so "every expression of his life must serve one purpose and one purpose only, preservation of existence, and he is absolutely focused on that. The deaths are merely more frequent, more varied and terrible. What can you do but fight back? He can not and will not coexist with you. "They are different men here, men I cannot properly understand, whom I envy and despise. Baumer and all soldiers are different, changed from when they entered the war. To Baumer, death carries hand grenades and a bayonet, and a rifle really to take what he has long protected-his life.
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