All Quiet on the Western Front
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All Quiet On The Western Front was telling about the main character, Paul Baumer, was told to join the German army after the WWI began. Not only Paul went by himself, his friends went with him too. At the front, they met an old solider called Stanislaus Katczinsky and became their mentor. They had to engage battles and encounter all the difficulties. Such as they had struggled to find food and went to the training camp. In the training camp, they need to learn all the things that soldiers need to do. But their group teacher was directed against Paul. Even when Paul was sleeping at night, the teacher woke him up and asked him to run up stairs for training but soon they left and started to be a real soldier.
At the beginning of the movie, it said “This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.” This was a simple version of the main theme behind All Quiet on the Western Front. The story is not to tell about romantic or exciting things in the WWI. It told us that war brought worst to the whole world and destroyed the peace between each country and person.