Because of the almost universal situation of WWI taking the point-of-view of one man can, if not easily, be mirrored to another man's point of view on the other side. At no point so far in the first few chapters of All Quiet on the Western Front has the narrator, Paul Bäumer, spoken about who he and his comrades were fighting. He has only spoken about the maturity bourn out of training and gunfire, the life and death fears hovering behind the front line for the "survivors" in prolonged agony, and the actions taken by those who only thought in the current practicality and necessity of war-made problems like the need for boots. One constant is the emphasis put on the connection between soldiers that the war has made. "Esprit de Corps" and "comradeship" it pressured as one of the core ideals created not only in the war itself but in the training and humiliation Bäumer and his friends suffered before ever being shipped out to the front. The novel puts stress on the feeling that the glorification the men were exposed to is completely wrong. That the reality of war is nothing like the stories told by those who weren't bold enough to go the front themselves.
With the view presented in All Quiet on the Western Front, it shares a lot about the feelings of war in total. Not the ideals given to us about good sides and bad sides or any sides at all. Just the men next beside you and the one's you can and can't save. It's both a noble and dreadful concept of war that is presented in this book.
The way you explained the narrator's (Paul Bäumer) view on how he's only talking about the conditions, the life style, and the way war can change you. I enjoyed the way you simplified the last paragraph saying that there's no sides to choose and that it's about the people surrounding you. Over all you did a good job answering the question giving us details on the book's mood and the truth it tells us.
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