The Road Back

Remarque successfully portrays the danger of war and how a person will do whatever he can to survive when faced with imminent danger. The following quote shows how they survived from another attack. At the sound of the first droning of the shells we rush back, in one part of our being, a thousand years. By the animal instinct that is awakened in us we are led and protected. It is not conscious; it is far quicker, much more sure, less fallible, than consciousness . . . It is this other, this…

1. The full and complete setting and why it is important to the the literation? All Quiet on the Western Front is set during World War I, behind the German frontlines where Paul Baumer is assigned. The setting intertwines back and forth between the warfront and the camp where Baumer stays. Once during the novel, Baumer goes home on leave, but the setting quickly deteriorates to the warfront. The only additional setting in the novel is in the hospital. Erich Maria Remarque did a great job at…

The war the soldiers were forced to fight them destroyed them physically and psychologically, the majority of younger soldiers had not made a life for themselves back home, and had nothing to go back to. The soldiers that had a home life, would never live their lives the same. All Quiet on the Western Front serves a glimpse of what the soldiers who fought in the war were like as people, rather than just soldiers. Without Remarque’s…

home and family represents how his experience in the war is stopping him from feeling the safety and comfort of where he once had those feelings. He knows that his leave will end, and if he lets down his emotional walls he will suffer when he goes back to the horrific warfare. Remarque has used the metaphoric idea of ‘distance’ to represent how Paul is feeling in his hometown, which is a representation of the alienation that has formed. By portraying the sense of betrayal and alienation felt by…

for people so they don’t start completely lost. First people would meet Clare Musgrove a ball gunner who starts telling his story and how he ended up in Yugoslavia with 499 airmen. Then over time as the book progresses it starts transitioning to and back to people but it still gives their experience on the matter of one of history's greatest rescues. Even though some of the writing can come off a little clunky or confusing especially since it…

The horrors of war plague the soldiers in Remarque’s All Quiet On the Western Front, but their strong friendships save most of them from madness as they drive themselves to survive. Baumer treats his comrades like family, turning to them for advice and comfort. In addition to momentary distractions, such as card playing, Baumer’s relationships motivate him to fight in a war he no longer believes is his. Although Baumer’s friendships leave him estranged from his parents, he forms unbreakable…

Written by Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front tells the cold truth about being a soldier in World War I. This book was originally published in 1929 by Propyläen Verlag, and it was one of the first war books that did not portray war as glory-filled, but as it truly was, grim, bleak, and bloody. Throughout the book, it is clear how big of an impact the war has on the soldiers, it changes the way the soldiers view human life, how the war makes it very difficult for them to return…

Thanks to brilliant imagery and the unpleasant topic of war, All Quiet on the Western Front creates lasting, jarring scenes that stick in the reader’s mind. To me, three specific scenes have stayed with me after completing the book. In chapter four, there is a battle in a graveyard. The battle begins in a field, but the soldiers are then forced to take cover in the graveyard; Paul even has to cover himself with an unearthed coffin. There is a sad irony about the scene, with such deadly violence…

to face with it. In the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque it describes a German soldier’s punishing physical and mental stress during the First World War, as well as the detachment from civilian life. In addition, returning back to the civilian life after experiencing war is a challenge for soldiers. In All Quiet on the Western Front each of the soldier’s lives are enduringly changed by war, they have to deal with guilt, the questions inquired, and coping with how to…

constant rumors of armistice and peace, then he begins to contemplate what would’ve happened if peace came as early as 1916, “Had we returned home in 1916, out of suffering and the strength of our experience we might have unleashed a storm. Now if we go back we will be weary, broken, burnt out, rootless, and without hope. We will not be able to find our way anymore” (Remarque pg. 294). In 1916 Paul and his companions were just newly exposed to war since the war had just begun, all of them had…