"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 school teacher to volunteer for the war when he was just ending school. In this book, Paul (the main character) and his friends (fellow soldiers) experience the war. Paul goes through a mental struggle trying to figure out who is wrong; the government or the enemy. Towards the end of the book, through his experiences, he comes to a conclusion that the government is wrong. He also comes to the conclusion that he has changed because of the war. When he visited his home on leave from the war, he could not talk about the war because it would bring back the memory of the terrible occurrences that happened in the war. At the end of the book, all of his friends die, are taken by the government for treason, or hurt and sent home. He becomes weak because of this. He ends up dead one month before the war ended. An army report stated "He fell in October 1918, on a day so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All Quiet on the Western Front." These following questions examine this book:
             1. What are the main themes of "All Quiet on the Western Front"?
             There are two themes of "All Quiet on the Western Front"; Antiwar and Ethnicity and Intolerance. The first theme, antiwar, is demonstrated by Paul's entry when he is at the training camp. "A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends. At some table a document is signed be some persons whom none us knows, and then for years together that very crime on which formerly the worlds condemnation and severest penalty fall, becomes highest aim. But who can draw such a disti...