All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, uses intense imagery to show the reader the realities of war, and sends a jarring anti-war message without directing coming out as being against the war. The main theme, running through almost every page of the book, is the impact war has on the youth that are fighting its battles. Because the book is written from the perspective of a young soldier, Paul Bäumer, it explicitly shows the effect of war on the psyche of teenage soldiers. Remarque
The second book that is evaluated according to the three literary qualities is ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ by Erich Maria Remarque. The first literary quality is to determine whether this novel has stood the test of time. The book is originally written in German under the title ‘Im Westen nichts neues” in 1929 and it is translated to English. This implies that the book is written 86 years ago. According to Dr. Johnson, a book can be qualified as literature when the book is still read after a
All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque and published in 1928, focuses on the lives of the main character Paul Baumer and his comrades as they fight for Germany in World War I. Remarque states in the epigraph of the novel: “This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells
Jeffrey Dodd Remarque, Erich. All Quiet on the Western Front. Parsippany: Pearson Education, 1995 A Soldier’s View of War The book titled, All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque in 1928, is a novel narrated by the book’s main character, Paul Baumer. In writing this story, Remarque was able to draw upon personal experiences as a soldier serving in the German army during World War I. The story is set on the German front lines in its war against France in 1918. Baumer gave
Oliwia Lazinska History 101, Fall 2014 Book Review The Life of a Soldier The novel All Quiet on The Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque describes the experience of World War I through the eyes of a young solder Paul Baumer. Baumer’s experience with the brutal murders and the bloody battles are so horrible that he learns to disconnect his mind from his emotion to allow him to deal with the horror of war accordingly. Remarque’s analysis of World War I through Baumer’s experience add to