A book of the tragedy of war expressed in sorrow by Erich Maria Remarque explains All Quiet on the Western Front to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure. Throughout this novel many themes are expressed that of which all sum up to the major themes of the senselessness of war. Comradeship, wars brutality, and the lost generation, these themes express the book in its purest form, showing it from a soldier’s perspective.

“We are at rest five miles behind the front.” The importance of this line, the opening line of the book, is to notice that Paul is a first-person narrator, and the first word of the book is “We.” This shows how Remarque wanted

Throughout the book many examples and themes are given to express one major theme, the senselessness of war. The only redeeming factor shown in the book that comes out of war is comradeship. While brutality and a whole generation lost show how senseless war is. The last paragraph of the book could quite possibly be Remarque after he saw a dead man at peace. This book expresses one mans life, out of the many involved in it.

The most important theme of the novel is the lost generation. A foreshadowing of this is when there group of 150 was drastically dropped to a remaining 32 survivors. Even if Paul survived the war, even if all of his comrades were still alive, all would be lost. With no schooling, and the loss of appreciation of any arts they would probably rejoin the army because th

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Paul Remarque’s, Western Front, , Gerald Duval, war comradeship, Maria Remarque, lost generation, themes express, senselessness war,