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...

Ethnicity and Intolerance "All Quiet on the Western Front" In "All Quiet on the Western Front" Paul Bäumer is a soldier for the German army in WWI. He is fighting the French, British, the United States, and the Russians (who are called the Allies). He was pressured by his sc...

All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel set in World War I, centers around the changes wrought by the war on one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque's protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather in...

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...

All Quiet On The Western Front, by Erich Marie Remarque, is a powerful book which tells of the war experiences of Paul Baumer, a nineteen-year-old soldier fighting in the German army in World War I. Paul's regiment, which includes many friends from his home town, undergoes grueling training, an...

I read "All Quiet on the Western Front" and viewed the movie. Both the film and the novel show the horror of trench warfare and the drawbacks of unquestioning patriotism. Both the film and the novel follow the same plot but emphasize different aspects. The beginning of both the movie and the novel...

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 The grainy black and white film is still not outdated and carries a breathtaking initial impact.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...

Wilfred Owen's "Greater Love" and Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" are two pieces of literature that examine the bond that men made with each other during World War I. The speaker in "Greater Love" tells of the sacrifices made during war to his lover, who he does not believe can u...

What Is the War Like? Themes: War may seem not at all that hard to some people, you go to army training learn to shoot a gun dress up in your military outfit fly off to some country and shoot guys. What is so hard about that, and if you get hit your dead in a flash, correct? Well actually according...

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 ...

The Movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" occurs during the two years just before the Armistice ended World War I in November 1918. By 1916 when the story begins, World War I had already been underway for two years. From the beginning, World War I was fought in two areas, named for thei...

Lost Generation In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque shows how the soldiers in World War I are disillusioned and surrounded by human suffering. Surrounded by death and suffering, the boys lose interest in everything but war. The war slow...

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...

The story of All Quiet on the Western Front is an appealing story to many people of all ages. It was a pleasure to view and learn about the events that took place in Paul Baumer's life. Paul was a brave man who fought along side his friends and fellow Germans in World War 1. It was such a shame...

All quiet on the Western Front In his novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque depicts a transition in the nature of reality from idealism to realism and naturalism. This transition takes place at different parts of his novel, and to different degrees. At the beginning of the novel, on p...

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 ...