Advanced Placement Composition January 24,1999 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel set in World War I, based around the changes formed by the war on one young German soldier. During his time in the war, the main character, Paul Baumer, changes from an innocent boy to a hardened veteran. More importantly, during the course of this change, Baumer outcasts himself from those societal influences that …showed first 75 words of 2276 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2276 total…Maria Remarque shows the disorder created by the war. This disorder affects such elemental societal institutions as the family, the schools, and the church. Moreover, the war is so chaotic that it infects the basic abilities, not the least of which is verbal, of humanity itself. By showing how the First World War harmfully affects the syntax of language, Remarque is able to demonstrate how the war hopelessly changes the order of the world itself.