novels of all time. It is a story, not of Germans, but of men, who even though they may have escaped shells, were

destroyed by the war. The entire purpose of this novel is to illustrate the vivid horror and raw nature of war and to

change the popular belief that war is an idealistic and romantic character. The story centers on Paul Baumer, who

enlists in the German army with glowing enthusiasm. But in the course of war, he is consumed by it and in the end

is "weary, broken, burnt out, rootless, and without hope." Through Baumer, Remarque examines how war makes

man inhuman. He uses excellent words and phrases to describe crucial details to this theme. "The first bomb, the

first explosion, burst in our hearts." Baumer and his classmates who enlisted into the army see the true reality of

the war. They enter the war fresh from school, knowing nothing except the environment of hopeful youth and they

come to a premature maturity with the war, their only home. "We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the

world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. We are

thing they need to know is how to survive. They need to know how to escape the shells as well as the emotional

What can you do but fight back? He can not and will not coexist with you. It does not matter that he is a man of

they are taught, "the world of work, duty, culture, and progress" are not the slightest use to them because the only

have fallen. It takes a special kind of soldier to deal with this emotional abuse; a soldier who will not go to pieces at

of death like influenza and dysentery. The deaths are merely more frequent, more varied and terrible." He has rid

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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)