War…. what is it good for? Absolutely nothing except the internal achievement the leaders feel in winning the war. The Poor soldiers who sacrifice themselves arent cared about, the men and women who give up their lives are disregarded by these power hungry men. All Quiet on The Western Front By Erich Maria Remarque explains how the horror of facing wars affects soldiers and their families. The Horrors of war were captured in the examples of witnessing loss, isolation, and suffering. Paul suffered loss by losing his closest men in the war including his mother,katzinsky and kemmerich. In Chapter 7 of AQOTWF paul realizes that his mother doesn't have much time remaining, “I ought never to have come here. Out there i was indifferent and often …show more content…
In Chapter 12 of AQOTWF all of paul's comrades have died and he is slowly being isolated. “‘It is autumn. There are not many of the old hands left i am the last of the seven fellows from our class” (293). In the beginning of chapter 12 it is the aftermath of the final battle where kat died. Kat was the only living friend that paul had so when he died he felt very isolated and disconnected. Paul’s isolation has grown so much that he has no one to hang on to when he dies. “He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come”(296). Paul died knowing that everyone whom he knew had either died or were dying, he faced death very peacefully and calmly and war. Paul and his comrades faced suffering in the same manner of way. In chapter 10 of AQOTWF. “I am young, i am twenty years old; yet i know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow”(263). This shows that paul, who is merely 20 years old doesn't know anything about life except death and despair because of all the suffering that he has had to go through in his lifetime with his mother and his