Summary Of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet On The Western Front
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Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front narrowly focuses on the calamitous effects of war, rather than the eulogized and honorable components. Remarque takes the idea of glory and replaces it with an idea fear, and the idea that war isn’t all about the heroism. Erich Maria Remarque shows these tragic aspects of war through Paul Baumer and his time in War World I by using vivid imagery. Remarque uses this vivid imagery to show what death, trench warfare, and capturing an enemy is like during and after war. It is shown that the narrator and central character of the story, Paul Baumer, felt that war was more honorable than tragic in the beginning of the novel, as evident in this quote, “Once it was different. When we went to the