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Analysis on All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Remarque
The Ambiguity of War
"We run, we throw, we shoot, we kill, we lie about, we are feeble and spent . . . " -Paul Baumer
War is brutal, and that is what the book All Quiet on the Western Front is basedupon. This book alone, although it dramatizes war in graphic detail cannot destroy allhope for lessons to be learned. In fact, war is an inevitable reality in the lives of all peoplearound the world, especially today. So what can All Quiet on the Western Front teach usand how can it guide us in our recent struggles that started on September 11, 2001? Onewould not sit and read this book for comfort, rather one would adopt a sense of what warbrings: hell. Along with this hell, however, brings the opportunity to bond with ourneighbors. It.....
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