Essays Quiet on the Western Front: The Strong Message is sent to the front to fight for his homeland, Germany. He and his friends go through a range of typical war experiences: the death of a comrade, the terror of bombings, abuse at the hands of their officers, etc. Note that Paul hates everything about war: its insignificance, the lives of the young people it destroys or the innocent people it kills. Throughout the book, the author expresses this hatred in different ways. The most common way for Remarque to show his hatred is through the plot of the novel itself. He often does this while describing the deaths of Paul's close friends or describing his mother's illness. A good example of this technique is the death of Paul's friend Kemmerich. We can feel how terrible the death of innocent people is while...

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