Commentary on Erich Maria Remarque´s Novel All Quiet on...

All Quiet on the Western Front is a book that describes the different struggles of World War 1 from the perspective of someone who was there but may have not necessarily experienced it all. In the book, there is a man named Paul. â€Å"†¦Here hang bits of uniform, and somewhere else is plastered a bloody mess that was once a human limb† (208). When Paul is at home, he is having fun with friends and thinking that going to school is so difficult and then he goes to war, and he sees a person blown into pieces and watches thousands of men dying. It is a very different life. Paul feels as though his family has lied to him because they said he would be a hero and it would be so great because he would be protecting his nation but then he goes and has to see people being blown to pieces.â€Å"†¦at that time even one’s parents were ready with the word ‘coward’; no one had the vaguest idea what we were in for. The wisest were just poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy† (11). Their families do not understand what his going on there. But then, Paul gets out there and there are men losing legs and arms. When they are at home, they are young boys and stupid and maybe they fake shoot each other. But then, they have to go to war. â€Å"We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly fromShow MoreRelatedAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Essay1131 Words   |  5 Pages Through the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, novelist Erich Maria Remarque provides a commentary on the dehumanizing tendencies of warfare. Remarque continuously references the soldiers at war losing all sense of humanity. The soldiers enter the war levelheaded, but upon reaching the front, their mentality changes drasticall y: â€Å"[they] march up, moody or good tempered soldiers – [they] reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals† (Remarque 56). This animal instinct