The book by Erich Maria Remarque is a very popular novel that portrays the life and quiet death of Paul Baumer, the man who was changed and then destroyed in the war. The book shows Paul experiencing the war life and analysing the lives of other soldiers, and then, coming to a conclusion that the enemy was not very different. The encounter with Russian soldiers and then with a French soldier has changed Paul greatly because he realized that people on both sides were dying just the same.

The book shows that the war makes soldiers view human life in a different way. They do not possess hate a person in a normal situation may have for an enemy. Quite the opposite, the soldiers are rather calm and do not experience personal anger against the people they are fighting with. The ending scene with the main character getting killed shows the passiveness of the soldiers who regard life and death as something that cannot be avoided, and who do not seek revenge or someone to blame for the deaths of their friends.

When it comes to society in general, the book shows how immoral and adjusted to war it becomes. At first, people are terrified because of the great crimes and conflicts, but then, they adapt and no longer think of deaths as something quite horrible. The society learns how to live with constant deaths by sending young men to fight for a shallow peace, while, at the same time, it does not want to accept these men after they were damaged by war experience. Thus, the book is a great portrayal of the flaws people develop during the war, and it shows how a single individual can be destroyed because of the power ambitions of others.

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