Although very uncharacteristic of a German novel, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front has served as a testimony to the horrors of war and the negative effect it has on all people who are involved in it. Since the release of the book in 1928, only a decade after the end of Wor...

Losing Your Feet and Finding Your Wings What is real and what is ideal? What is true and what is just? Who are friends and who are foes? In Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, all these questions are asked, even if not all are answered. Many themes are discussed, many emoti...

Lewis Milestone's "All's Quiet on the Western Front", based on Erich Remarque's novel, is an incredibly disturbing and effective anti-war film. The grainy black and white film is still not outdated and carries a breathtaking initial impact. The prologue that introduces the film gives its anti-w...

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 pu...

Keep It Should All Quiet on the Western Front be appraised again this year as part of the curriculum for our high school students? Of many words, "yes" would be the correct response because this novel has much value within its words. All Quiet on the Western Front by Enrich Maria Remar...

War is often perceived as glamorous and an adventure to those we are involved. However, war destroys many people in many ways. After fighting in the trenches of World War I, Erich Maria Remarque and Wilfred Owen poured their experiences into works of literature. Even though Remarque and Owen were...

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 f...

All Quiet on the Western Front Critique In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, writes of the reality of war, and its psychological impact on the soldiers that lived through WWI. Through his character Paul Baumer, we see how the cruelty, chaos, and violence of War, can begin t...

All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, told the story of the harsh times during the two years immediately before the Armistice ended World War I in November 1918. The story begins in the year of 1916; World War I had been already underway for two years. From the launch of these hor...

Erich Maria Remarque used Paul Bäumer to narrate his work All Quiet on the Western Front. A young man of 19 fights for the German army on the French front in World War I. Paul and several of his school friends voluntarily joined the army after listening to the stirring patriotic speeches of ...

All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque, the author of All Quiet on the Western Front successfully conveys many of his views on war to the reader. Remarque tells the story of Paul Baumer, a twenty-year-old German soldier who enlists with many of his classmates into the German infantr...

Death-of-the-Other Erich Maria Remarque lets us know exactly what theme he intends for All Quiet on the Western Front in the short note that comes just before Chapter 1. He attests that the novel tries to simply tell the story of a generation of young men whom World War I destroyed– even if...

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...

All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the most influential novels ever published, depicts the horrific events of World War I. Written around 1929, the author Erich Maria Remarque himself participated in the war therefore enabling him to provide the realistic details to accomplishing his successful...

All Quiet on the Western Front Essay "Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come." No one was really sure what 20 year old Paul Bäumer was thinking, but I know that I would be thinking the ...

All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front completes the story of World War I in the utmost entirety. Having this novel capture the life of a German soldier, rather than an American soldier is what makes this story unique. Remarque, being a German American, faces the challeng...

The Destructiveness of War Paul Baumer, with the help of his comrades, fights the French and English armies on the Western Front of WWI. In Erich Maria Remarque's novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front," Paul has to deal with the destructiveness of war in order to help his friends...

All Quiet on the Western Front As World War I comes into mind, millions of young men are pictured fighting for their country. Particularly, the countries of Britain, America as well as the other allies are thought of as triumphs. On the other hand, Germany was the evil enemy of the war. However...

Transformations through War The novel All Quiet on the Western Front depicts World War I, the most devastating war up until its time. The author Erich Maria Remarque gets across a few forceful themes. Perhaps the strongest theme is the transformations that war induces. All Quiet demonstrates...

All Quiet on the Western Front No one wanted to be there; it was a place where starvation, gangrene, corpse eating rats, flame-throwers, gas shells, and finally, death were commonplace. Erich Maria Remarque elaborately revealed this in the book "All Quiet On The Western Front". Hell may h...

All Quiet on the Western Front Essay One of the major themes in Remarque's novel, All Quiet on the Western Front is comradeship. Paul, (the main character) experiences different kinds of comradeship: the comradeship of his regiment, and the comradeship of his adversaries. Paul deals with...

Developing Paul in All Quiet on the Western Front Throughout the course of a novel sophisticated authors are able to send a character on an influential journey that changes his of her outlook or attitude towards life. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the author, Erich Maria Remarqu...

All Quiet On the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Delbert Mann, is based on the novel written by Erich Maria Remarque. It tells the story of a German schoolboy, Paul Baumer, and a group of his classmates, who journey from fantasies of heroic glory to the...

All Quiet On the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet On The Western Front is a very riveting and engrossing novel based in the first world war. The main character is Paul Baumer, a nineteen year old teen who is swept into the war, along with his friends, not one day before he i...

Life is a coming-of-age story. Whether a person takes life as a human, character or an animal, they all have a history full of their own unique events. The events focus on the four stages of the journey; innocence, initiation, chaos, and resolution. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Er...