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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"Sometimes extreme situations cause people to go through extreme changes." This quote is backed up by the events that occur throughout the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Remarque. This book raises the issue of how destructive war can be not only to a country, but also to...

All Quiet on the Western Front Themes "We run, we throw, we shoot, we kill, we lie about, we are feeble, and spent..." –Paul Baumer A book of the tragedy of war expressed in sorrow by Erich Maria Remarque explains All Quiet on the Western Front to be neither an accusation nor a c...

"It is so unfortunate that Field Marshals, like myself, get all the credit for the planning of a battle. Part of that credit belongs to the lower ranking generals, who advise us, and to the colonels, majors and captains who advise them. With out these lower ranking officers, a Field Marshal w...

During the course of reading the book All Quiet on the Western Front, I became somewhat confused. The author seems to go back and forth between trying to show the full implications of our first world war and delving into the deeper reaches of human nature. However, by the end of the story I realize...

All Quiet on the Western Front is a thought-provoking work of fiction by Erich Maria Remarque. This novel is the testament of Paul Bäumer, a German boy convinced to enlist in the German Army and his subsequent experiences in World War I. After enlisting with the rest of his class, Paul learns t...

The Horrors of War Throughout their lives, people must deal with the horrific and violent side of humanity. The side of humanity is shown through the act of war. This is shown in Erich Remarque's novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front". War is by far the most horrible thing that...

All Quiet on the Western Front is a war novel written by Erich Maria Remarque. Being a World War I veteran himself, Remarque was able to write the book from the soldier's point of view. In writing the novel from a first-hand perspective, Remarque was able to fully portray the emotional stress felt ...

War causes many losses, including countless human lives, property, money, and innocence. The loss of innocence unravels the very core of existence. Prior to World War I, Paul Baumer's character enjoyed his youthful exuberance, yet as the war progresses, his naivete vanishes and he becomes hard...

"In one part of our being, a thousand years. By the animal instinct that is awakened in is we are led and protected. It is not conscious; it is far quicker, much more sure, less fallible, than consciousness. One cannot explain it"(56). On the battlefield of any war, past or present one would think...

War in any form is a ruthless machine that destroys the lives of young people all over the world. In the book, All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque. Paul's view of the war is a far cry from Kantorek's view due merely to actual experience. Paul has seen the brutal aspects of war ...

In both books, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the subject of war is seen in two strikingly different perspectives. War was thought to be productive and necessary by the older generation and central political figures, but when one h...