Emmanuel Liriano 1/14/16 English 12 All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Mariareque is a book worth reading because it gives us the readers another way of understanding of what war was like for a solder on the battlefield during World War One. In books like these one can almost always tell which authors have been through actual combat situations. But this is different and this difference is that ghe sorrows of war and the glorious lies is it really worth it. A Poetic version of the main theme behind All Quiet on the Western Front by the author Erich Maria Remarque, The point of the story is to show that war is not romantic, glorious, or fantastic. In fact, those words could not be further from the truth. War is a disgusting competition of human instinct, fought by the wrong people. It brings out the worst in everyone; it destroys their compassion, honesty, and ideals. The beginning chapters of All Quiet on the Western Front are devoted to showing that warfare hardens soldiers against true emotions. Their main priority is survival, second is comfort, followed by gain.
During World War 1, in the first chapter Paul Baumer the narrator of the novel and high school service as a soldiers in the German army during World War I. Paul and his classmates enlist together, share experiences together, grow together, share disillusionment over the loss of their youth, and the friends even experience the horrors of death—together. So Paul and his classmates were pressured by the spirit of nationalism and his school master into joining the German army during World War I. In the beginning the young students are glowing with enthusiasm with the honor to be trusted with serving their nation in a time of crisis. The inexperienced soldiers soon lose their innocence and eagerness as they watch the new technological capabilities of the twentieth