All Quiet On The Western Front: Comparing the Movie to the Book.

Erich Maria Remarque was born in Osnabruck, Germany on June 22, 1898. He was drafted into the army at the age of 18 to serve his country in the first World War. During his four month stay at the front, Remarque was wounded five time and eventually released. Upon returning home he floated from job to job (ironically enough, he spent some time selling tombstones) before becoming a writer for a Swedish car magazine. It was with those …

…horrors of war that becomes their differences. While the film has visualization, it seems that it is only a situational advantage in portraying the themes of the novel. However, the strength of the message, as well as the effect of relating to the audience in both forms of media rises above their differences and helps to, in more or less the same effect, convince people against not only the Great War, but war in general.