All Quiet on the Western Front

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque jumps around a lot in order to show what war is really like and how uncertain it can be. This is showed by going from a scene where Paul and his comrades are relaxing and eating, straight to a scene on the front line where there are bombs flying everywhere and it is utter chaos. Remarque does a very good job in portraying the war as a survival game for the men fighting. Most of the men don't really want to kill the men they are fighting against, they just want to make it out alive. Most of the men, including the main character Paul Baumer, entered the war right out of school, so many of them don't have any clue what they will do when the war ends. The novel ends fittingly, with Paul dieing very peacefully, knowing the end to his nightmarish war has finally come.