A story that tells only of death, sorrow, and the bitter truth about World War One, Erich Remarque’s book, All Quiet On The Western Front, is simply a story of a generation of men who were lost to war. Told through the eyes of a 19 year old boy named Paul Bäumer, as he shows what World War One was, in all of its horrific glory. This ‘glory’ so to speak was a gruesome, traumatizing experience for many of the soldiers that fought in World War One, this experience engraved in their memory, that would continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives. In the epigraph in All Quiet On The Western Front, it tells that “ even though [the soldiers] may have escaped shells, [they] were destroyed by the war”. It is evident to say that even though some soldiers escaped death from the war, they all will be scared from the experiences they had. …show more content…
When the soldiers of World War One went off to fight they had no clue of what the outcome would be, or the horrors that went along with them. In the book as Paul is on the front, he describes the horrors and despair of bombardments, when he states that,
Everyman is aware of the heavy shells tearing down the parapet, rooting up the embankment and demolishing upper layers of concrete. When the shells land in the trenches we note how the hollow, furious blast is like a blow from the paw of a raging beast of prey. Already by morning a few of the recruits are green and vomiting (106).
This experience for the recruits, shows how the bombings on the front caused great terror, which lead to the recruits to vomit and forever be