All Quiet on the Western Front - Essay All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, is a novel that takes you through the life of a soldier in World War I. ... Paul first enlists with a group of his friends who all have much enthusiasm towards the war. ... All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel that greatly helps in the understanding what really went on during the battles in World War 1. The book is fiction, but the visuals of the war and life during the war are all true. ... (P 139) This quote shows that the soldiers sense that death is a very real possibility and so...

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All Quiet On The Western Front (AQOTWF) was written by Erich Maria Remarque and is set in world war one, beginning in 1916 and ending in November 1918, when the armistice called a halt to the war. ... They calculate that after about five months at the front, of the original 20 classmates, 8 remain and 12 are out-of-action, "(Quote)". ... The comrades are sitting quietly and listening to a bombardment a few kilometers away. ... When the Kaiser visits, the comrades learn that he is not at all a remarkable man. ... "(Quote - Pg 176)" ...

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(Remarque 115) This vivid quote is just one of the numerous examples in the eloquently described passages of how Erich Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is a horrific tale of the truly devastating effects that world wars bring. All Quiet on the Western Front, as told by a young infantry soldier who describes the horrible realities of World War I's trench warfare and the drastic consequences of the war upon his generation. ... Brian Murdoch says, "Stolen youth is a recurrent motif," (Murdoch All Quiet on the Western Front 1) which, indeed, is all too true. All Quiet on ...

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All these new weapons were the reasons for the three consequences of the Great War. ... (Windrow, 18) This quote shows how thousands of men died in hours from machine-gun fires. ... "Even in "quiet" periods a constant harassing fire of a few shells an hour kept the infantry on edge and caused a steady drain of casualties." (Windrow, 21) These quote shows that even in quiet battles that lasted hours, numbers of death slowly rose. ... Some of the lands that were heavily damaged were the three French cities on the Western Front. ...

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