Home Front Vs Home Analysis

The Front Lines vs. The Home Front War is a terrible disease that infects everyone. Even generations after a war the cruel acts of battle still linger in our minds, but war has the most debilitating effect on the ones who actually fight. Every person goes into war with the typical morals and values that have been instilled in them from birth, but they come out solders, changed and unsuited for the society that sent them to battle. They have been forced to adapt to the worst of humanity and to stay sane their outlook had to change. Solders have become so focused on survival and coping with death that after the war has passed they are exhausted and to tried to readapt to “regular” society. Leave is an odd thing for a soldier. They are aloud to leave their comrades and the front lines to go home and witness that which they are fighting for. They get a few days to go visit their families only to find that it they do not belong anymore. They do not feel happy or released to be away from the front, only lonely. Paul expresses this when he first reaches home, "You are at home, you are at home." But a sense of strangeness will …show more content…
They are closer to death and know mortality in such a way that civilians cannot even begin to understand, for solders, death is just a part of life. As people, death is something of which we try to remain blissfully ignorant. We logically know that everyone will die, but that knowledge is repressed so that it does not affect our daily lives. We live every day looking into the future and planning for tomorrow. Solders do not have that luxury. As Paul explains “It is this, for example, that makes Tjaden spoon down his ham-and-pea soup in such tearing haste when an enemy attack is reported, simply because he cannot be sure that in an hour's time he will be alive.” (Remarque ) A “normal” life seems unfulfilling if you know that any second it could be taken from