Friday, January 23, 2009
All Quiet On The Western Front Ending
I believe that the ending was very good, and predictable because Paul Baumer's life was all about the war. He couldn't forget about the war, even when he went home to re-meet with his family. Paul couldn't escape all he tragedies n the war, the machine guns, the gas, the shells, the death. The War had taken over his life. His life was lost by the war. This is why it was obvious that Paul was going to die in the war. The most ionic event of Paul's death was when the army reporter said "On a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front. The army report confined itself to the single sentence:All Quiet on the Western Front." Just when the war was ending and the at the front he shelling, and gun shots have stopped. Paul had died, but he had died, peacefully and calmly because he had the felling the end of the war was near. That is why the ending is very ironic. I finally understood why the novel was called All Quiet On The Western Front. I believe the ending was very appropriate because when a soldier dies his death is not seemed to be important or significant, but it implies that the tears from the families will remember his death. I kind a wished Paul's death would've been more descriptive, because they just said he died quietly and peacefully. Maybe he could've died in action, but the ending was still very entertaining. I believe this book gave the true meaning of the war, and not that all heroic false information. I can understand why this book was not sold in Germany because it showed the reality of the war, and would've give second thoughts for men to join the war. But over all I believe that Erich Maria Remarque described the war very well, and he put the picture of the war in the readers mind. Overall Amazing BOOK!!!
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