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Horror of War Exposed in Erich Maria Remarques in both politic on the horse opera FrontErich Maria Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest warfare novels of all time. It is a story, not of Germans, but of men, who even though they may devour escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. The entire purpose of this novel is to embellish the vivid horror and raw nature of war and to change the touristy belief that war has an idealistic and romantic character. The story centers on capital of Minnesota Bamer, who enlists in the German army with glowing enthusiasm. In the route of war, though, he is consumed by it and in the end is weary, broken, burnt out, rootless, and without hope (Remarque page ). Through Bamer, Remarque examines how war makes man inhuman. He uses excellent linguistic communication and phrases to describe crucial details to this theme. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts, (page ). Bamer and his classmates who enliste d into the army see the true reality of the war. They enter the war fresh from school, go to sleeping nothing except the environment of hopeful spring chicken and they come to a premature maturity with the war, their only home. We were eighteen and had begun to do it life and the world and we had to shoot it to pieces. We are not youth any(prenominal) longer (page ). They make water lost their innocence. Everything they are taught, the world of work, duty, culture, and progress, are not the slightest use to them because the only thing they need to know is how to survive. They need to know how to escape the shells as well as the emotional and psychological thwart of the war. The war takes a heavy toll on the soldiers who fight in it. The terror of death leave behind infest the minds of soldiers... ...as they dread wound and death. They have nothing to look forward to but years of rage. They have go through the horrors of war but have not experienced the enjoyments of life. They will be pushed aside and forgotten and the years will pass, and in the end they will fall into ruin. All Quiet on the Western Front tries to rationalise the purpose of war and its uselessness. It is a story of an almost obliterated multiplication that fought for nothing but the principle of hate. Change the names, and it could have been the tale of a Frenchman, an Englishman, or an American. It is perhaps the most tragic generation our human records posit of. It bears the overwhelming accent of simple truth that makes you one wonder wherefore war still exists. Work Cited Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. Trans. A. W. Wheen. New York Ballantine, 1982.