Escaped The Shells Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is famous as one of the most powerful war stories of all time. It is a story, not of nations, but “of men who, even though they may have escaped the shells, were destroyed by the war.” The novel centers on Paul Baumer and his classmates, through whom Remarque depicts a generation of men that enlist for their idealized notions of war, …showed first 75 words of 598 total…

…showed last 75 words of 598 total…well understood. Paul has no actual association with anything in the war except for his own mortality and his diminishing group of friends. Paul feels no malice towards his imposed enemy, nor does he feel any belonging to the cause of his ally. THE QUOTE WHEN HE”S TALKING TO THE ENEMY AS AN IDEA. “We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers-we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant animals.”