ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT summary and reflection

All quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front is about the German warfront during World War One. The traumatic tale of battle is narrated by Paul Baumer, a young soldier in the German infantry. He and his school friends have been urged to enlist in the fighting by Kantorek, their teacher, who glorified entering the war effort and saving the fatherland. The story is set on the front lines where Paul …

…the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come." This war was truly a terrible pointless war. When a man of 19 feels he has nothing else to live for and has been through so much that death comes as a relief to him, you know he has been through hell and back.