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Erich Remarque's Analysis

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Erich Remarque, a former soldier, created this war novel to show readers the horrors that occur behind the scenes of war. The biggest misconception that people have about war is that it is just fighting, it is more than that; war is something deep that cannot be described unless one has experienced it. When a person becomes a soldier, they are forever scarred as a soldier; they will never be the same person they used to be. Living a normal life outside of the war becomes “a thing incomprehensible to [them]” to be able to live in; something that once was their reality became a dream that will never come true (Remarque 122). Remarque exemplifies this depressing reality in his novel when Baumer goes on leave; he was unable to reconnect with his
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