All Quiet on the Western Front

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All Quiet on The Western Front, was written by Erich Maria

Remarque in 1929 during World War I. All Quiet on The Western Front is a

fictional book although it tells a story of the reality of war, not at all a

adventure for death is not an adventure for those who stand face to face

with it. A group of German schoolboys were sent into the Great War’s “field

of honor” for a long sequence of events that are very graphic, and will bring

out the emotions of many soldiers. The story was told by Paul Baumer, a

nineteen year old who was convinced to enlist with the German army.

Erich Remarque was in combat during World War I, and he was

wounded five times. All Quiet on the Western Front made him rich at the

age of thirty-three. The money did’nt make him forget the worst horrors of

the wars and the inhumanity acts.

Seduced to war by their elders, who appeal to the young patrioticism

and the prospect of be heroes, Paul and his friends go off to the

battlefields full of enthusiasm for adventure, guns, and fighting.





Paul and his friends, Kropp, Tjaden, and Westhus were convinced by

their schoolmaster, Kantorek to join the army and go to war. Kantorek would

talk to Paul and his friends about joining the was and how it was an

honorable thing and how heroic it would be to do, although he himself would

never enlist. Paul and his friends are trained under a strict disciplined

commander, Corporal Himmelstoss. Corporal disliked Paul, Kropp, Tjaden,

and Westhus this showed as he ordered then to do drills in the mud, non

stop drill even in awful whether, and stand at attention in the freezing cold.

Paul meets a man named Stanislaus Katczinsky “Kat”, a forty-year old

commander. Kat believed to be the wisest and was said to have a sixth sense

he always was able to find anything that was needed in places where no one

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