“All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque is a novel about how the war changes and destroys people’s lives, also other things. The novel starts when a group of friends that joins into military with the encouragement of their teacher, Kantorek. In there, they are feeling that the war is not as easy as they think because it destroys everything include the lands, buildings, people, but also the dreams of what they want to become. They have to accept of losing friends, comrades over and over time. Finally, they all die. According to this book, the audience will notice about the friendship, the depression that the war does, and how life means to the soldiers that are in war. During reading the story, the audience will notice about the friendship. The friendship does not only express as a normal friend in school, in a real life like Paul and his friends that always want to go together, even in military but it also expresses between soldiers with soldiers like Paul and Kat as a comradeship. “ … …show more content…
“ I am young, I am twenty years old, yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous … I see how the people are set against one another, and in silence …” This quote means that in war, there is nothing else except for the death, fear, of the people, so it makes Paul feels life is just a joke because there is nothing lives in war, everyone tries to survive and protect the country. That makes the word “life” becomes dimmer over time in their heads. The sentence “I am young, I am twenty years old” shows for us to know that although they are not old enough to understand the life, with a full meaning in it, they still have to avoid from the deaths, avoid from the fear of losing friends, and avoid from the dreams which they used to want because the war is taking away all of those things; therefore, there is no meaning of life in this cruel