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The novel All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, took place during World War I. The novel focuses on six men who are involved in the war. The main character is Paul B@umer, a nineteen-year-old who was drafted into the war. At this poi ....

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.... did not realize that they would see "…coffins and corpses lie strewn about…" [Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (Ballantine Books, 1982), p. 71.] The war would change them permanently, and unfortunately, they did not realize this until they were actually faced with its brutality. They began to realize that "…a broken arm is better than a hole in the guts, and many a man would be thankful enough for such a chance of finding his home way again." [Remarque, p. 52] When new recruits came to the front and witnessed the harshness of the war, they frequently heard comments like, "You'll get used to it soon," [Remarque, p. 62.] I ....