All Quiet On The Western Front Rhetorical Analysis

World War 1 was centered in Europe and began in 1914 and ended in 1918. This war had over 17 million casualties ranking it one of the deadliest conflicts in human history. Remarque is a veteran of War who has been injured five times, the last time quite seriously. Veterans are known to cope with being back from war in many different ways. Writing a book that shows the reality of war is Remarques way of coping. Remarque,using repetition on the emphasis of youth, omissing the real way Kemmerich died when he told Kemmerich’s mother, having Paul die on a regular and quiet day and using pathos to make one feel sympathy, wrote All Quiet on the Western Front as an anti-war novel. In the beginning of All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque really emphasized on how Paul’s
Pathos is strongly used to show the effects of war, how hope can be lost after a night of bombing raids or watching your brother die with your own eyes. When Kat dies, Remarque uses pathos to describe how much Kat meant to him. Remarque also used repetition of the phrase “No, we are not related”, to try and convince himself that they were just friends and not brothers and that he shouldn't be obsessing over his death. Pathos, is used here because Paul repeating that phrase causes one to feel sympathy because he is trying to convince himself that his dead best friend was nothing more than just a friend when in actuality, he considered him a brother. Another important part where Remarque used Pathos was with Paul and his family. War made it to hard for Paul to open up to his family which caused them to become very distant. It was heartbreaking when Paul’s mother was dying because Paul began to regret going to the front. Remarque used Pathos in very emotional moments like Kemmerich's death, Kat’s death and Paul’s death as well. It made the situation one level higher emotionally with the use of