... Western Front is a war story of the experiences that Paul Baumer encounters while living through the harsh habitat and situations that he and his close friends are put into. The author, Erich Maria Ramarque, makes the reader feel in the action as he describes in depth the countless brushes with death that Baumer goes through while being on the front line in World ... War 1. It begins when Baumer and a group of his friends and classmates have enlisted in the German Army. As the book begins we are already part of the ... -war. It shows the civilian who did not have to experience the war u...

• Word Count: 332
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

All quiet on the Western Front, a novel was written by Erich Maria Remarque, is a great novel that about the World War I. Paul Bãumer was a young man at 19 years old, his high school teacher placed intense pressure on Paul and his classmates to fulfill their "patriotic duty" by enlisting in the army. Those innocent teenagers joined the war barely because of their enthusiasms, when they saw the true meaning of the war, all of their enthusiasms have gone, and they no longer believed that the war is honorable. The war brought everything that are bad to Paul and his friends, the lived in terror a...

• Word Count: 1152
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... of view, unlike most war stories written about WWI prior to this. The main character of the story is a young German soldier named Paul Baumer. The story is about Paul and his soldier buddies, and just how they deal with the many aspects of war. The story's main focus is not on the ... . (Remarque 87-88) The story depicts in rich detail the feelings of these young men. The horror of war can be seen through their eyes. Paul and his friends found neither glory nor praise on the battlefield. They found suffering, destruction, and death. "With this tale about a class of schoolmates who ... by...

• Word Count: 1239
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... sad that the new soldiers are very young and nave, but in reality they are the same age and they just do not have the experience of war like Paul and the other soldiers. The malevolence at war is shown because this novel tells you what war is really like unlike those that are bring in a romantic aspect ... the story, this books just tells you how it really is to be at war. The Characters in this book all had a special and different role. Paul Baumer is a young soldier who was changed drastically by the brutalities of war and may never be able to recover. He is also the narrator of the bo...

• Word Count: 699
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... of what it would look or be like but still telling you that you don't know what war is till you experience it. In chapter two one of the characters , Paul Baumer, realizes that his ten years of schooling have taught him less than ten weeks as a soldier. War has quickly taught him that only the fittest survive. This young man has ... not have his first love yet. The book says that Paul has been at war and has not had time for love. This novel gives great description on how young people go to war and witness it and in the poem ... ...

• Word Count: 518
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... can"t stop for one second knowing that at one moment the enemy will come flooding over the trench trying to kill as many Germans as they can. My name is Paul Baumer and I am a soldier of the German army in WW1. I can say one soldier told me one time shortly before he died that, "there is no escape anywhere." I figured out what ... ...

• Word Count: 550
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School