All Quiet On the Western Front

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…All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque shows the disorder created by the war. Thisdisorderaffects such elemental societal institutions as the family, the schools, and the church. Moreover, thewar is sochaotic that it infects the basic abilities, not the least of which is verbal, of humanity itself. Byshowing how theFirst World War deleteriously affects the syntax of language, Remarque is able to demonstrate how the warirreparably alters the order of the world itself.