Horror Of War

This story speaks the truth about the w AR rather than romanticizes it and emphasizing on the idea Of the honor, patriotic duty, videodisc endure, and glory. All Quiet on the Western Front displays the war how it really was. Using images of fear and meaningless to replace the romantic visions of heroism. This novel focuses m such(prenominal) on the physical ND psychological damage that war brings.In the end, almost alwaysy major chaw racier is dead. This shows wars horrible and devastating outcome on the new(a) generation of m en who were recruited and forced to fight. One of the worst things about war is the images shown to man. Men killed by the millions in terrifying ways. Bodies blown to pieces, limbs broken, and flesh me tie from the bones. Along with the deaths, there atomic number 18 many injuries that often outnumber d dead men. As capital of Minnesota Beamer witnessed his friend, Franz Chimers, death in the hospital, the NJWere terrifying and often attract to death. Chi mers death was the first sign of the meaningless of life and death in the war. The turmoil was expressed in the lines, Day after day goes by with painfulness and fear, groans and death gurgles. Even the death room I no use anymore it is besides small. (Armature 19) Ryan 2 In the novel and in war the men micturate no where to hide from bombs and bubble TTS. Paul and his friends must reside in dirt trenches where death surrounds them. We lie under the network Of arching shells and resilient in a suspense Of uncertain ant.If a shot moms, we can duck, that is all we neither know nor can determine where it w ill fall. (Armature 101) They peace holding their bread so no rats steal it. The dirt surrounding them t urns dark as it absorbs the blood of the fallen. The worst part of the war is that two sides fighting live through the aforesaid(prenominal) con editions. Paul realizes this when he guards the Russian prison camp. Paul sympathizes with the soldiers poor shape and he knows that he shares the same role as them in the war. W hen Paul kills the man who dies in his shell hole he feels remorseful.But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your Han grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle now I see your wife and your face and our fellows hip. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are pop or devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear Of death, and the same dying and the same generative me, comrade how could you be my e enemy? (Armature 223) This is when he decides that he must live with the fact that all the men have ski Lied others that were just like them.In the end of the novel, Paul is the last of his friends to die. As he falls to dead h his face shows a sense of calmness. Ryan 3 He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him o ever on saw that he could not have suffered long his face had an expressio n of calm, as though al most glad the end had come. (Armature 296) Paul was happier in death than life because of the horrors of war. Paul was ha pier that he didnt have to lead a life of war any longer.