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In this novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Remarque tells the story of the First World War in such vivid detail and bloody honesty that only those individuals who wrote it with their lives have heard in such blunt candor. The novel is a horrific and telling account of the suffering and brutality of life on the Western front lines of the German army. ... All Quiet on the Western Front paints a clear and concise picture of what war was like on the French Front and spares the reader of the superficial romantic and honor filled details that normally accompany such an account. ... He torments them again later in the novel when he is reunited with them in battle, but soon realizes how horrifying the front really is and then attempts to make amends. When the boys finally do reach the front lines they realize that nothing could have trained them for what they were going to experience. ... One cannot explain it… It is this other, this second sight in us, that has thrown us to the ground and saved us, without knowing how… We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers – we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals” (56).
Approximate Word count = 893
Approximate Pages = 3.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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