The story is told through the eyes of a young German soldier named Paul. Paul joins the war right of high school after he and his friends are told that defending your country in war is a very honorable deed. As the war goes on, many things about Paul change including his views and attitude towards life. Paul enters the war still as a child, but is forced to become an adult due to the life-threatening situation he is thrown into. "Our early life is cut off from the mo

The fact of growing up and not having a youthful life is also part of the lost generation theme. This war took so much from this generation that is was considered "lost". Paul ends up getting killed at the end of the novel and only two short paragraphs explain his end. "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 and youthful innocence to join the war. The author states that he is almost glad to die because all the pain and suffering he has endured is now over and he is finally at piece. The main loss of World War I, as portrayed by Remarque, was that of an entire generation of young men who all lost in the end regardless of what side they had represented.

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)