... pages of his book All Quiet on the Western Front summarises the theme of his entire text by dedicating it to "a generation that was destroyed by the war - even those who survived the shelling". This text is the tragic account of a young man, and the other millions of young men killed or emotionally and mentally shattered by World War I. The novel is brutally honest and is told from the unique first-person viewpoint of a young German ... , glory and romance of war. He shows instead the animal brutality, the torn and horrible human disfigurement, the dread, the anxiety and soul-deadening s...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... outweigh them by a landslide. Gandhi once commented, "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent." The quote describes how even though violence appears to be a viable solution, the benefits are only temporary and will only promote further mayhem. World War I was an international war centered in Europe that ... was stretched to four years and ended in 1918 when countries of the Central Powers signed armistice agreements. The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque describes the experiences of Germ...

• Word Count: 1660
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate