Author’s Purpose Understanding an author’s purpose for writing a story allows the reader to better understand and learn from the text being studied. Erich Maria Remarque’s purpose for writing the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front is a desire to accurately describe the experience of the soldier. Throughout the novel, many detailed injuries are described, as well as the multitude of emotions a soldier experiences as their comrades are being violently taken away from them. The story “graphically depict[s] the horrors and brutality of World War I” by providing gruesome details of the soldiers’ time on the Western Front, whether that be horrifying deaths or emotional trauma (“Erich”). There are many seasons in this story that are difficult