“I see one of them, his face upturned,fall into a wire cradle. His body collapses, his hands remain suspended as though he was praying. Then his body dropped clean away and only his hands with the stumps of his arms, shot off, now hang in the wire” (Remarque, 112). All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is the story of a young man named Paul and his comrades in World War One. Paul and his comrades suffer through all the horrors of war and are changed by the war and its terrors. In the book, Paul and his fellow soldiers are injured emotionally, physically, and mentally while fighting at the front. Soldiers are injured emotionally during war because of the fighting during wartime. Paul and his friends suffer through emotional
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For example, when Kemmerich is in the hospital on his deathbed because of his amputated leg, his watch gets stolen by the other soldiers at their station. “He lies in a large room and receives us with feeble expressions of joy and helpless agitation. While he was unconscious, someone had stolen his watch” (Remarque, 13). The moral decay in the hospital shoes because now Kemmerich is scared to keep any of his belongings in the hospital because he thinks they will be stolen like his watch was. Also, throughout the course of the book, Paul and his comrades go through ransacked houses and take food and clothing and beds from them, which also shows moral decay and mental pain because they cannot tell that it’s the wrong thing to do. Erich Maria Remarque sends a specific message in this novel about the life of the soldier, and he sends a message that the soldier’s life will never be the same if they make it through the war and try to live a normal life. Paul thinks about this multiple times in the book and explains how the war has corrupted him and how the injuries that he suffers makes his morals and personality change. All the different ways that soldiers are injured in the war makes for an enormous amount of injury and pain that often cannot be
For example, when Kemmerich is in the hospital on his deathbed because of his amputated leg, his watch gets stolen by the other soldiers at their station. “He lies in a large room and receives us with feeble expressions of joy and helpless agitation. While he was unconscious, someone had stolen his watch” (Remarque, 13). The moral decay in the hospital shoes because now Kemmerich is scared to keep any of his belongings in the hospital because he thinks they will be stolen like his watch was. Also, throughout the course of the book, Paul and his comrades go through ransacked houses and take food and clothing and beds from them, which also shows moral decay and mental pain because they cannot tell that it’s the wrong thing to do. Erich Maria Remarque sends a specific message in this novel about the life of the soldier, and he sends a message that the soldier’s life will never be the same if they make it through the war and try to live a normal life. Paul thinks about this multiple times in the book and explains how the war has corrupted him and how the injuries that he suffers makes his morals and personality change. All the different ways that soldiers are injured in the war makes for an enormous amount of injury and pain that often cannot be