Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet On The Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque wrote the novel All Quiet on the Western Front to show readers the impact that war and death had on soldiers during war times. Many men returned from the war with missing limbs, missing clothes, and missing minds. They felt displaced and lost in their own bodies and in society. The death toll in World War I was tragically high, and it left families without brothers, sons, husbands, and uncles.
All Quiet on The Western Front describes a group of soldiers living on western front fighting for Germany during World War I. Kantorek pushed the boys--Joseph, Kropp, Kemmerich, Leer, Müller, Tjaden, and Paul--to sign up for the war. Paul narrated the book, and explains his eventful time in the war. The men were very close due to …show more content…
Paul feels that home was on the front because was there for so long. Home was where he was comfortable at and where his friends were. Paul feels awkward when he returns home because he feels really out of place. He described the feeling as “I find I do not belong here any more, it is a foreign world,” and this showed that his home was no longer in his hometown--it was on the frontlines(168). The frontlines was where he lived for a significant amount of time before he went home. He was familiar with the danger of living there, and he had friends who understood his survival instincts more than anyone in his hometown in Germany. Another example of his home being the frontlines was when he was to his friends. He was really worried that he would never get to see them again(152). He felt like he was leaving his first family to visit his second family. His home where his heart was. He felt like he belonged on the frontlines beside his brothers. He was “a soldier, and now I am nothing but an agony for myself, for my mother, for everything that is so comfortless and without end”(185). He felt so out of place there that he described himself as though he was a burden. He felt like he messed up everything by coming home because everything at home was in bad shape. He did not feel like a soldier
All Quiet on The Western Front describes a group of soldiers living on western front fighting for Germany during World War I. Kantorek pushed the boys--Joseph, Kropp, Kemmerich, Leer, Müller, Tjaden, and Paul--to sign up for the war. Paul narrated the book, and explains his eventful time in the war. The men were very close due to …show more content…
Paul feels that home was on the front because was there for so long. Home was where he was comfortable at and where his friends were. Paul feels awkward when he returns home because he feels really out of place. He described the feeling as “I find I do not belong here any more, it is a foreign world,” and this showed that his home was no longer in his hometown--it was on the frontlines(168). The frontlines was where he lived for a significant amount of time before he went home. He was familiar with the danger of living there, and he had friends who understood his survival instincts more than anyone in his hometown in Germany. Another example of his home being the frontlines was when he was to his friends. He was really worried that he would never get to see them again(152). He felt like he was leaving his first family to visit his second family. His home where his heart was. He felt like he belonged on the frontlines beside his brothers. He was “a soldier, and now I am nothing but an agony for myself, for my mother, for everything that is so comfortless and without end”(185). He felt so out of place there that he described himself as though he was a burden. He felt like he messed up everything by coming home because everything at home was in bad shape. He did not feel like a soldier