All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on The Western Front is a phrase synonymous with an uneventful day on the frontlines of a battlefield. however, it is a actually a crude translation of a line from this gripping, intense story of a group of young comrades trapped in the bleak, unforgiving trenches of the First World War, refreshingly, told from the perspective of a German soldier. Being British, this is an angle all too rarely explored with the German's usually portrayed ...
...the unusual task of humanising all of the unfortunate souls who fought and in many cases, perished in such a tragic conflict, regardless of birthplace. The book is written by Erich Maria Remarque, a young man conscripted into the German forces in 1917, who fought in the war until being wounded and seeing out the final months in a field hospital. Remarque was a German soldier, which explains the book's perspective, however, he still manages to portray ...

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All Quiet on the Western Front was written by Erich Maria Remarque. I read this story for my A Level German Coursework, alongside the German version, I would definetly recommend you to read it. This story is about a group of school boys, who are persuaded by Kantorek, their class teacher, to go to war, and fight for Germany. Without even thinking about how their lives would be changed the schoolboys all decided to go to war, fearing that if they ...
...of the tragic deaths of all of the other soldiers, who unfortunatly lost their lives, in this book his death is not important, but it is very significant to the reader, who has experienced what he has gone through with the war and his friends. We learn that life on the front is very different to civil life, e.g. on the front the system, drill and polished buttons are important, whereas in civil life the school and thoughts are important. The soldiers ...

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...attic), and I came across ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, I thought I'd have another read. The story is told in the first person by the narrator - a young man called Paul Baumer - who, along with the rest of his 18 year-old classmates, is swept up in the nationalistic phobia of the time. They are pressurized and badgered by their schoolmaster until they sign-up en-masse, full of patriotic fervour and enthusiasm, but they are quickly brought down ...
...same again. This is made all the more obvious to him when he returns home during a two week leave. His mother, who is dying of cancer, is curious about the war and asks how bad it really is, but he knows he can't tell her the details and just shrugs it off. He feels isolated while away from the front. He can't communicate with those who haven't experienced the utter futility and the carnage close-up. His paradox is that although he loathes and detests ...

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...accounts of the war. All Quiet on the Western Front can be enumerated as a novel that shows the horror of the war where the solders feel totally detached from the mainstream society once they returned from the front. The main protagonist of this novel is Paul Bäumer who is also the narrator of the story. He and his friends, Kropp, Müller and Tjaden, with 18 others from his class, joined the war at an early stage inspired by their teacher Kantorek. ...
...The main purpose of Remarque`s All Quiet on the Western Front is to convey the readers that war or conflict of any sort between nations is not only an evil by nature but also an unnecessary evil. This unnecessary evil taught the writer that there is little about bravery in a war and rather it was just chance of survival and death and no one is certain when his death would come. The writer writes this novel with the hard boiled conclusion that “We ...

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All Quiet on the Western Front is a moving, harrowing tale, bringing to life the war that was to end all wars. Written by Remarque, a German soldier who fought in France, on the western front almost 84 years ago, the book follows the fate of a young german Paul Baumer who was persuaded if not pushed to join the war under the pretence that war was good sport. Soon realising the all to horrorific truth about war, Paul and a group of friends struggle ...
...of the deaths of comrades and lack of food. They kill because if they do not, they will be killed, they don't see themselves as human any more. The book has been excellently translated from Remarque's national tongue and is written so well that you feel like you have been there.IT is based on the truth which means men went through the torture described in its pages, something I can't begin to imagine. ...

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I have recently read "All Quiet On the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque I am interested in the First World War and that is why I chose this book. It is written from the point of view of a young German soldier. This is a short book that everyone should read. Although it is fiction it is based on the Remarque's real experiences of the war. It vividly shows the true horror of the war, including detail of life in the trenches, death and madness. ...

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All quiet on the western front is a book about a german soldier during the first world war. It tells of how he survives in the dark dank and cold trenches throughout the war.It also shows an out look of the war through the eyes of a german soldier which is not often seen in england as most films/books are very baist. Him and his friends are all recruited for the german army and they are pratically starved so when they raid the allie's trenches they ...
...The main character also hates all athority which is quite ironic as he is a member of the army which is based on disipline to keep the army fighting. There is one instance where the main character kills an enemy soldier at close range with his knife and he becomes very emotional about it. So he takes out the english person's wallet and vowsw that he will see the person's parents at the end of the war. Eventually as he is a very whethered soldier ...

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A class of German boys, grown up together, who know each others ins and outs, untouched by the reality of life come to find themselves in possibly the worst place on Earth. Being at the front line in any war must quite simply terrifying. Seen through the eyes of one of the boys, their look out on life being full of promises comes to a sudden end. Thrown and tumbled through harsh training, it is not long before the class begins to decimate at the ...
...action, as one by one they fall the remaining begin to wonder whether these days will ever end. Such a wasteful end to glorious life reveals itself everywhere. Not only is this book an important read as a very good piece of writing by Erich Maria Remarque. More, it is important in helping to understand what war was for such brave people. ...

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...extremely effectively the emotional trouble all the soldiers must have experienced. Their feeling of not being at home anymore, because their parents would never understand what they have seen, is made into a very sad image. And yet this book is not self-pitying. It simply has little emotion. The sentences are short, and though it is told by one of the soldiers, it is written in the impersonal third person. It contains little plot, but that is not ...

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