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Summary Of All Quiet On The Western Front

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All Quiet on the Western Front was written by Erich Maria Remarque. Erich Maria Remarque was born on June 22, 1898, and later died on September 25, 1970. Erich was a German novelist who created many books about wars. His best-known novel was All Quiet on the Western Front. The talked about German soldiers in the First World War and their physical and mental stress during the war. This book was originally known as "I’m Westen Nichts Neues" but later translated into English by a man named Arthur Wesley Wheen.
At the very beginning of the book before chapter one, Erich Maria Remarque says "This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those …show more content…

Then the ministers and generals of the two countries can have it out among themselves (Remarque, pg.41)”. This shows that Paul and the soldiers were not ready to be involved in a battle and at the moment scared to fight a war that doesn't involve them. Their understanding and look of the war changed for Paul and his friends. They could no longer be happy after seeing the horrors of war. “We see men living with their skulls blown open; we see soldiers run with their two feet cut off, they stagger on their splintered stumps into the next shell hole; a lance corporal crawls a mile and a half on his hands dragging his smashed knee after him; another goes to the dressing station and over his clasped hands bulge his intestines; we see men without mouths, without jaws, without faces we find one man who has held the artery of his arm in his teeth for two hours in order not to bleed to death (Remarque, pg.134)”. Mental changes were not the only thing Paul and his friends saw throughout the war. There was a change in technology as well. “There are too many new guns, too many aeroplanes (Remarque, pg. 280)”. Paul thinking about the war and situation they were in become more and more depressing. As technology becomes more effective; guns, tanks and even aircraft were even more significant in the

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