All Quite on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, is a novel about the First World War that follows a young German man, Paul, and his comrades throughout their struggles and hardships during the war. Remarque uses a writing technique in this novel that skips around the plot, setting, and idea from chapter to chapter. This writing style helps keep the readers interested by giving them a look at all aspects of the war, from the training and occasional leaves to the front line. Paul continues to describe the lives of the other soldiers and his family’s throughout his story that makes you feel sympathy and remorse for the characters. Erich Maria Remarque also creates a tense atmosphere for the battle field and back at the camps by using great detail to describe the anticipation of a bombardment or the anxiety in hand to hand combats. The detail used in All Quite on the Western Front makes you feel as if you are right there with Paul and the other soldiers. The writing style and sympatric lifestyles of the soldiers on both sides of the war extend past the book to your own emotions which really makes the book captivating to the reader.
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