All Quiet is a book drafted by German writer Erich Maria Remarque and first published in 1929 as I’m Westen Nichts Neues in Germany and All Quiet on the Western Front in the United States.
All Quiet is an antiwar book set during World War I that draws on Remarque’s own experiences in the conflict to portray the era’s more considerable disillusionment. The book is primarily concerned with the effect of war on young men, and it is an account of Paul Baumer’s experiences in warfare and his brief career as a soldier. Its title, written in standard communiqué language, is symbolic of the film’s casual terse tone, which brutally portrays the everyday atrocities of war in laconic understatement.
It describes an assortment of young Germans who join the army during World War I after being inspired by patriotic and honorable slogans. Paul Baumer, the protagonist, is 20 years old when the story begins. The young guys quickly discover that the idealized picture of war they were told about is nothing like the battlegrounds they see.
The story begins with the group having just been relieved of their front-line duty. One of Paul’s classmates, Kemmerich, has had his thigh amputated due to a wound, and several of the troops travel to see him at St. Joseph’s hospital. They immediately understand that Kemmerich would die there, so another soldier, Müller, asks Kemmerich for his boots, an uncomfortable but unavoidably reasonable request. Paul returns to Kemmerich alone, and Kemmerich dies during this visit; Paul cries out for aid, and a doctor directs him to an orderly.
After that, Paul receives word that he has been allowed 17 days of leave. When he returns home, he discovers that his mother is dying of cancer. Paul feels cut off from individuals he used to care about, and he doesn’t comprehend what’s on their thoughts. He pays a visit to Kemmerich’s mother, who confronts him with questions regarding her son’s death. Paul orders he had nevermore gone on vacation after a painful discussion with his mother, feeling that he has changed much too much to live as he once did.
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