All Quiet On The Western Front

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May 10, 2015

 

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In a critical response to All Quiet, Modris Eksteins says that "All Quiet was not a book about the events of the war--it was not a memoir--but an angry postwar statement about the effects of the war on the young generation that lived through it," (Eksteins 336). Eksteins is correct in saying this because an "angry postwar statement" is in essence a condemnation, and Remarque does set out to convince readers that the young men of this generation, as a result of the war, have been ruined...
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At the end of Chapter One, Paul is remembering his old schoolmaster, Kantorek, calling his generation the "Iron Youth." Such an idealistic title at one time to these young men was an inspiration, but even at the very start of their experiences it quickly became a mockery. Looking back after the death of their comrade Kemmerich, Paul, Kropp, and Muller reflect bitterly, "Yes, that's what they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old...
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