All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Mariaremarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” is one of the greatest novels on World War I that exists today. All Quiet on the Western Front was written in a first-person perspective in which one soldier, Paul Baumer, tells the story of what it is like to be a German soldier during World War I. Along with Baumer are his friends Behm, Kemmerich, Haie, Detering, Leer, Tjaden, Muller, Kropp, & Katczinsky. Behm is never …showed first 75 words of 1927 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1927 total…end, I believe it is what happens. Paul Baumer’s death, no matter how disturbing, allowed him to finally escape the torturing war that had taken the lives of so many of his friends and companions. The look of calm and serenity on his face proves that he welcomed death with open arms. To me, having something so gruesome, and so twisted, that death would be an alternative that would be happily accepted is amazing.