set in World War I, centers around the changes wrought by the war on

one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque's

protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to a

hardened and somewhat caustic veteran. More importantly, during the

course of this metamorphosis, Baumer disaffiliates himself from those

societal icons-parents, elders, school, religion-that had been the

foundation of his pre-enlistment days. This rejection comes about as a

result of Baumer's realization that the pre-enlistment society simply

does not underezd the reality of the Great War. His new society,

then, becomes the Company, his fellow trench soldiers, because that is

a group which does underezd the truth as Baumer has experienced it.

Remarque demonstrates Baumer's disaffiliation from the

traditional by emphasizing the language of Baumer's

pre- and post-enlistment societies. Baumer either can not, or chooses

not to, communicate truthfully with those representatives of his

pre-enlistment and innocent days. Further, he is repulsed by the banal

and meaningless language that is used by members of that society. As

mother's question: he underezds that the experiences he has had are

false from true, we had suddenly learned to see. (Remarque, All Quiet

military comrades. Since the novel is told from the first person point

expressions used by the pillars of society do not reflect the reality

realize he does not know that a man cannot talk of such things; I

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Approximate Word count = 1176
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)