All Quiet on the Western Front Essays: The Loud Message

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All Quiet on the Western Front: The Quiet Novel that Screamed a Message

In Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front", the main character

Paul Baumer who is 18 years old, is sent to the front to fight for his

homeland, Germany. He and his friends go through a spectrum of typical war

expiriences: the deaht of a comrad, the terror of shelling, the abuse by their

officers, etc. Remarque as well as Paul hates everything about the war: its

meaninglessness, the lives of young people that it destroys or the innocent

people that it kills. Throughout the whole book, the author conveys this

hatred in many different ways.

The most common way Remarque shows his hatred is by using the

plot of the novell itself. He offen does this by describing the death of Paul's

close friends or by describing the sickness of his mother. A good example of

this technique is the death of Paul's friend Kemmerich. It can be felt how

terrible the death of innocent people is while...

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