One of the major themes in the story is that of the lost generation. What Remarque was trying to show, is that an entire generation was lost because of the war. Not only were millions of people killed in the fighting but also many of them were distorted mentally because of the horrible experiences that many of then had to endure. Paul talks about the faceless enemy and how the fight was not with anyone he hated. Paul was affected the greatest when he had to ki

"He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front." It goes on to say that he died fast and looked almost glad the end had come. Paul ends up part of the lost generation. He gives up his life in the war to join the millions before him. The reason he is almost glad to die is that all the pain and suffering is over and he is finally at piece. The main lost of World War I, as portrayed by Remarque, was that of an entire generation of young men who loss in the end regardless what side won the war.

ll the French soldier in the ditch and hear him die a slow painful death. This one experience, of not only killing a man but also to do it close enough that he could put a face with his enemy, haunted Paul's mind. This was most likely a shared feeling with the soldiers at this time. They had to live though watching their countrymen die by being shot

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