All Quiet on the Western Front

¡°Those who survived into the decade of the 1920¡¯s perceived their lives as being neatly divided into a before, a during, and an after categories most of them equated with the stages of life known as youth, young manhood, and maturity¡± (Wohl). Whenever people read and hear about World War I, they hear of the struggles and triumphs of the nations and the other Allies except Germany. However, All Quiet on the Western Front gives the reader a look at a group of German soldiers who are fighting in the war and how they become the lost generation. Paul and his friends also enter the war at that time. They want peace and they want to return home to their normal lives but they have no idea of what to do when the war is over. They have to disconnect themselves from their feelings in order to survive. As they go through the war, they are totally changed from innocent boys into men. Finally they become the lost generation. Throughout Erich Maria Remarque¡¯s All Quiet on the Western Fron...