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Erich Maria Remarque’s account of life as a soldier in World War I, as described in All Quiet on the Western Front, paints a shockingly realistic portrait of the horrors of war and how it affects the men who experienced trench warfare firsthand. Remarque draws upon his own experience as a soldier and tells his story through Paul Bäumer, the novel’s main character, who is a young German man who is sent to serve his nation on the battlefield. Remarque uses Bäumer to convey the significant psychological impact a soldier experiences and how it alters his view on his past civilian life, as well as the lives of other civilians. In this essay, I will explore Bäumer’s personal experience as a soldier and how the war continued to change his outlook throughout the duration of his military service.
Remarque precedes the story with a brief statement which says that “it will try simply to tell of a generation of men, who, even though they may have escaped shells, were......

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