Identity theft abdulla nuaimi (summative blog)

I have just recently finished reading the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front.” It is a well written war novel written by Erich Maria Remarque. Remarque has written this novel in a first person perspective which makes it really interesting too know what Paul Baumer, the main character, is feeling throughout the novel. Knowing what a soldier during this war is going through makes it more interesting to read. Lots of changes are experienced in this war. An example would be the view’s Paul has on war. At first he believed it would be a honor to be defending his country and defeating the enemy.

As the war moved on Paul’s views on war changed completely. Even Paul’s fellow comrade, Albert Kropp, says "The war has ruined us for everything." (87) As the book came to an end Paul’s views on the war would change completely. Paul is just 19 years old when he enters the war. He enters the war right after he finishes school. Many people would be setting goals for themselves in life after school but Paul and his friends have to go to war. They definitely aren’t ready for the war mentally and physically. As the war went on Paul and his fellow comrades have to change their personalities because they need to have a different attitude to survive this war. They need to be strong and let deaths be deaths, and move on.

It is easier to say than to do. The soldiers couldn’t see any future for themselves. They were robbed of their identities. No one remember their life before the war. Everything from when they were born to when they joined the war was forgotten. What they had learnt in school didn’t matter anymore. The enemy didn’t ask for the capital of Prussia before killing them. They realized that education was worthless and if they had to fight the war they should have been taught to “light a cigarette in a storm of rain” or “make a fire with wet wood” (chapter 5). They get angry when they think that war wasn’t a choice for them. They were forced to join the war and if they didn’t they would be seen as spineless and worthless cowards.

The soldiers were misguided. They were made to think that war is glorious. They went to the front and realized that all soldiers face the same problems. They do not know why they fight. They are made to kill other men of the same age, only because they come from a different country. Paul and his friends realize that the enemy isn’t actually evil. It is only because the officials wanted the war. They realize that war is not productive and it only leads to destruction.

In German society everyone thought that war was glorious. They didn’t know that the soldiers were treated like dogs and died because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time. They didn't know the condition of the trenches. The people in Germany thought that their kids were having a fun time when they were actually fighting for their lives. I find the attitude of the society disgusting. They forced their kids to die because of respect. They made them lose their identities, love, and their lives.