All Quiet On The Western Front Essay

Paul Baumer and his friends were indoctrinated, they knew nothing about war: “For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress-to the future. We often made fun of them and played jokes on them, but in our hearts we trusted them. The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first death we saw shattered this belief…the first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.” All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a war novel which discusses a soldier’s life during World War 1. Paul Baumer and his classmates, which soon became comrades, knew nothing about war and life at war. Propaganda, influence, and

‘Brig Noble said their support role was often as important as the soldiers themselves.’ “Sometimes the hardest part of the job is going on back here in Australia, where your families go on with life, kids go to school, shopping gets done and life goes on while you are in harm’s way overseas,” he said. Life for them is not easy. In my point of view, life for soldiers is at war. They no longer belong in a civilian society since they might have a great damage to their brains, they may be able to replace thoughts, deny them, or dream like in the novel, but in reality they are still living the same life. It may not just be stressful for soldiers but also families. They may be thinking about their fathers, husbands, or even perhaps wife, and mothers. Soldiers have all the rights to think anything else but war, but it will technically not be effective, because soldiers experience rough things at war, there tougher than a crime in a civilian