Summary Of All Quiet On The Western Front

November through December in 1928, Erich Maria Remarque published a novel in the German Newspaper. The novel was soon published a year later as a huge success in 1929 in book form. The novel was titled All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque published this novel to show of a generation of men who, “even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war." This novel discusses the struggles young men had to go through during the time of war. Although they were still very young, all youth had been ripped away from them. They had no choice but to be hard, stern, and brave. The main character in the novel is Paul Baumer. Paul enlists in the Army at nineteen years young through the persuasion of his school teacher. He is deployed to the Western Front where he then experiences the physical and mental stressors of the war. Paul has a very close group of friends throughout the novel. These friends were also persuaded by their school teacher to enlist in the Army. Though real war tragedies take place, some get badly injured and unfortunately some lose their lives at a very young age in this treacherous war. The author uses Paul to narrate through throughout the novel. He describes how the war will change the person you once were at the beginning of the war. For
Once Paul is home, he finds that he can no longer relate to his family. He doesn’t really feel as comfortable and “at home” like he used too. The sense of belonging he had at home as a kid has vanished. He can’t control his emotions when he knows there is death all around him back at the Western Front. At the beginning Paul and his friends would carry deep conversations but as the novel goes on and war gets worse the conversations take a dramatic change. They talk about eating, smoking and just random things to keep their mind off of the death that’s taking place all around