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 and fear every single day. They did not want to fight, did not want to fight against the people who are as inculpable as they are. Paul's friends let him one by one, Paul got alone, and finally died in peace at the end of the war.
The theme of the whole book is the horror and violence of the war, and how the superior leaders using young soldiers as their tools to against each other in the war. The author expressed this theme through Paul and his friends' thoughts and conversation very successfully. The thoughts of Paul were the major thing in the novel that showed out the author's point of view. All most in every single event that happened in this novel, Paul had his own feelings and thoughts, this book seemed like a Paul's little diary, which recorded his pain and suffering. The descriptions of Paul's feelings were very meticulous, and gave the readers a impressive feeling about how terrible the war was. Also, the author pointed out that the war destroyed young men's lives both in mental and physical ways. Those originally strong and healthy young men all have been treated like animals, sometimes even worse. They got totally lost on the battle field.
The most impressive event for me in this book was the in one of the battles which is in chapter 9: Paul separated from his company, and forced to hide in the shell hole.
