The Quiet American

Back in 1914 when WW1 took place, Germany was running out men and sent untrained young kids to the battle field. The book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque displays a group of young boys sent into war. What makes Remarque’s book so compelling is because it exhibits a dazzling loss of innocence in the characters of the book. As we read through the book we realize that the main character name is Paul Baumer and one of his only reason that he and his classmates enlisted to…

The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque follows the story of Paul Baumer, a German soldier during World War I, and his everyday life in war. The most prominent message that Remarque emphasizes is the brutality and inhumane nature of war on not only German soldiers, but all people in war. Remarque highlights not only the physical hurt war has on people, but also the long lasting emotional toll, something Remarque believes follows the soldiers for the rest of their lives.…

Baumer to many is a of many traits; but when it comes to war he’s caring, a man scarred from war, and a brother to his comrades. When it came to his comrades, Baumer would do anything for them; they were apart of him that could never be left for dead. When in need of help, their voices “are more to [him] than life,”; they are the “most comforting thing there is” (Remarque 212). They have developed a brotherhood so strong that not even his relationship with his family compares to it. During his…

All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel written by Erich Maria Remarque, a victim and former soldier of war. The author served in the German army during the “Great War” and experienced traumatizing events, such as carrying a dying comrade and frequently working at the darkest hours of the night trying to avoid sniper fire. Once discharged from the military due to medical reasons, Remarque struggled through day to day life, constantly experiencing delusions and trauma from the war. Remarque…

All Quiet On The Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque is set in World War I in Germany, where Paul Baumer, a nineteen year old soldier, is assigned to the frontlines. The book tells the story of Paul on the battlefield, his time in the camp where he stays with some of his old classmates, when he is on leave, and in the hospital. Paul tells stories of the horror of the war and how it changed him forever. The author, Erich Maria Remarque, who’s real name was born on July 22, 1898 in Osnabruck,…

They could have been drafted into the army, pressured by peer/family members, or simply did not believe in what their county wanted out of the war. The unfairness of the entire event was described by Erich Remarque in his book, All Quiet on the Western Front where he stated, “[they] are merely honest and call a thing by its name; for there is a very great deal of fraud, injustice, and baseness in the army. It is nothing that regiments after regiment turns again and again to the ever…

World War 1 and wars in general were always made to show honor and glory. In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, All Quiet On the Western Front, he gives readers a new look on war that was rarely shown before. He uses Paul Baumer, the main character, to tell his story of what he experienced on the German side during World War 1. Remarque uses symbolism throughout his novel to help emphasize his feelings of war and how it affects the characters in the story. He incorporates Hemmerich’s boots,…

All Quiet on the Western Front The book stars Paul Bäumer, a young German gentleman who enlists, with his friends, to fight in World War I. After ten weeks of military training at the hands of Corporal Himmelstoss Paul’s outlook on the war completely changes. He believed, at the time of enlisting, that he was enlisting for noble reasons ones of patriotism and nationalism, then the Corporal shows him the ugly side of the war, the brutality. Their lives become constant fear. After a short break…

The novel “All Quiet on the Western Front”, by Erich Maria Remarque shows a generation of war veterans that escaped the shells and gunfire, but yet were still torn by the effects of war on the mind. Remarque shows this through the main character in his novel, Paul Baumer, and the men in his regiment. Throughout the Baumer’s testament, he tells of the joys and the fears the men faced everyday. Through writing his novel, Remarque fulfills his purpose he set for himself by showing the horrors in…

commonalities among the soldiers and men from different nationalities than differences. Erich Maria Remarque in All Quiet on the Western Front and John McCrae in the poem “In Flanders Fields”, emphasize that combat brings out similar core human characteristics among the soldiers, stressing that people are essentially the same, even if separated by opposing sides of war. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque stresses that, through war,…