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Erich Remarque's book All Quiet On The Western Front is often looked as an anit-war novel. I however believe that Remarque meant more to promote pacifism than to protest war.Instead of looking at the war from a political stand point, of the good guys versus the bad guys, he takes an important step by establishing the main charcter as a German solider. He then challenges the romantic idealistic view of war, by displaying the base characteristics of it: the graphic brutality, the pshychological effects brought onto the soldiers, and the unconsciouss deterioration of humanity.
Remarque often goes into explicit detail to describe the war scene. I believe he wanted the reader to have a real uncensored view into how brutal war really is. He specificaly uses this graphic language when telling of a characters death. In Chapter 11 he describes the death of Bertinck and Leer. "After awhile a fragment smashes away his chin, and the same fragment has sufficient enough force to to tear open......

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