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Review Of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet On The Western Front

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Erich Maria Remarque was born in Osnabruck, Germany, in 1898 into a middle-class family of lower status. In 1916, he was drafted into the German army to fight in World War I, in which he was unfortunately wounded. He published,Im Westen Nichts Neues,ten years after the war ended, rewritten in English a year later as All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel about the experiences of typical German soldiers during the war.

In presenting his terribly realistic version of a soldier 's experience, Remarque presented an un-made beautiful war story in the firmly ,with loyalty, anti-war All Quiet on the Western Front. The novel instantly became an international, critically-gave respect to success. An American movie based on the book was released in 1930.

After Adolf Hitler 's rise to power in Germany in the early 1930s, the extremely strongly Nazi government in power attacked All Quiet …show more content…

Never before had a war lasted so long or with such a terrible and destructive death toll. It brought in the new century with an unconscious amount of violence, death, and gore. In Erich Maria Remarque 's war novel "All Quiet on the Western Front," a young man by the name of Paul Baumer remembers and retells his personal story as a German soldier in World War I. Although his accounts are based on a fabricated idea they are based on an actuality that many men had to genuinely endure during their fight front experiences in World War I. There are a large number of themes and ideas in this novel that range from the overall depiction of World War I to the personal struggle of a soldier in comparison to what the people from back home believes what is happening during the war. These focuses within the novel are explored through the particular themes of bombardment, trench war fighting, different, disagreeing impressions of war, close emotional bond between men, organization of men on the warfront, and loss of innocence among the

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