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Setting in All Quiet on the Western Front

In the war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, there is a vital need for a descriptive setting. Having a valid setting can help in many ways; the setting can make a illustration in the readers mind about the area in which the characters are in, it helps Paul develop and grow throughout the book, and it can reveal the difference between two settings.
In the novel there is an immense use of descriptive vocabulary to show the contrast between different settings. At home the setting is so different then that at the war. At home it is quiet and beautiful. There is not the constant sounds of the rigorous shellings or the smell of rotting flesh. The people at home have no worries about if they will live to see the next day or not. Back at the war there is the roaring of the machine guns, the whistling of the bombs. A man really has to know how to think and act in this kind of setting, or he may not make it to the next day. At war they have tight living quarters, which can eve...

Posted by: Darren McCutchen

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