Let me just start with the “All Quiet on the Western Front” was an amazing book written by Erich Maria Remarque. The descriptiveness surpassed no other. The book was extraordinary on describing every detail for the gruesomeness of WWI. That's what I would love to focus on. Every sense of destruction was covered. Every limb, every rotting appendage, every gruesome murder was accounted for. Erich was a captivating war novelist. I almost threw up at multiple times! Allow me to list them; when Behm, the person who was least likely to join the war, joined... He was the first to be killed, and it was gruesome! Behm was blinded in no mans land, stood up in confusion and got shot down! Then when the farm got bombarded by artillery was very gruesome. Chapter 4 page 62 where Paul described about the horses was messed up! I never want to go to war simply because of how sharply Erich detailed this process. No one wins at war and there simply is no beauty in it. However, Erich the author did capture the beauty of Paul Baumers hometown and that was nothing compared to how crappy it was in war. His respect of beauty died with the war. What was the point of respecting beauty if everything can be destroyed in war? My hypothesis of this question is you can't. If someone recovers from what Paul Baumer saw, they have some serious brain damage.
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