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Erich Maria Remarque’s is a novel that takes you through the life of a soldier in World War I. Remarque is accurately able to portray the episodes soldiers go through. shows the change in attitudes of the men before and during the war. This novel is able to sh ....

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.... battlefield compared to home. The war scarred the soldiers permanently, if not physically then mentally. After the war the soldiers usually never recovered from the war. Two of the most common side affects of the war were shell shock and stir crazy. When suffering from shell shock a soldier’s brain doesn’t function properly and the man is a “vegetable”. This means the man is alive but he can’t do anything because he is in a state of shock because of the war. Stir crazy is a mental illness caused by the firing of so many bullets that when no bullets are heard by the victim he goes insane. Everyone was scared to go to war when it star ....