All Quiet On The Western Front

All Quiet on The Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque is an attention getting novel about war and the hardships behind it. The book brings us face to face with World War One as a soidler, Pual Baumer, for the German army. As the story goes on it jumps from one time to another not really flowing with one another. this technique adds to the affect the book has on the readers by creating a feeling of bedlam which war is itself. Addition to the disorder we are only allowed to know what Baumer knows and feels. Another interesting feature to the book is that it is told from the German point of view which we see as the bad side, but it teaches us that they did not see us as horrible people; they where just doing what was asked of them and hating every mintue of it just as our soilders did. The part that hit home for me was how Baumer did not feel at home any more in the house he has lived in all his life. He was emotionly, phyiscally, and mentally distort, all together caused all by the three years at war. Every day he was an inch away from death at every minute; soilders experience this same predicament today. The main point this book brings to readers' attentions is war brings no good to the common man and little good to the few powerful people who called for the war it.