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Tabitha Forms in Literature
September 27, 2004 Period 11

All Quiet on the Western Front
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A lost generation, emotional destruction, the reality of war, these are all ideas displayed in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front that prove the validity of the statement in the preface. These ideas and more expressed by the author, Erich Maria Remarque, present the reader with the war novel of a lifetime. A war novel that is different from any other because of these ideas and the way Remarque presents them.
A generation of young men was fresh out of school with the world at their fingertips, but they realized it was their duty to enlist in the war and have lost the innocence of youth because of it. They became a lost generation because, as is stated in the preface, they were, “A generation of men who, even though they may have escaped the shells, were destroyed by the war. The young men had to deal with their friends dying at only the age of seventeen,......

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