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A 4 page paper which examines how the war is represented in Erich Maria Remarque's novel "All Quiet on the Western Front." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of the most powerful anti-war novels of all time. It is a story that involves young German men in at war, but it is also a work that could actually
be any young men from any particular Western culture. The point of the book is not necessarily the political standpoint, but the lure of war as a romantic ideal for
young men, the promises made, and the realities faced. The following paper examines how people could interpret Remarques work regarding the subject of war.
All Quiet on the Western Front When this novel opens we are already set in the midst of the hardships of war as
told by the narrator Paul. In this chapter, the first chapter, we are also introduced to the past, when Paul and his friends and classmates first joined up to fight.
They joined up with grand notions of patriotism. They had ideals and they possessed a great deal of innocence, innocence that was to be lost. In this first chapter we
see some of the simple innocence gone: "The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off,
and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy" (Remarque 11). This could well help us to understand how
more simple readers, not the average mainstream reader, may find this book to be nothing more than a war novel, not a novel that offers a message about the horrors
and loss of war. In this respect a reader could perhaps merely assume that the work depicts the real conditions of war and they could well maintain that warfare, though
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