All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a vivid portrayal of trench warfare on the French front during World War One. The interesting view taken by the author is that this book is written in a German perspective as opposed to be written in an American, British, or French perspective. In doing that, Remarque gives his readers a completely different view of the war.
             At the start of the book, the protagonist, Paul Baumer, is nineteen years old. The company he is a part of has just come back from the front for rations. Only eighty out of the original one-hundred and fifty men return. The cook only will give them rations for eighty men but eventually give them everything. Soon after, Paul finds his former classmate, Kemmerich, in a bed with his leg amputated and dying. He has a new pair of boots he cannot wear. Their comrade, Muller, wants these boots, but only if there is no chance of Kemmerich using them. Kemmerich soon dies and tells Paul to give his boots to Muller.
             New recruits are sent to the front, and Paul's friend Katczinsky(otherwise known as Kat) has made a great stew of beef and beans. He said that if all men in the army were given the same food and the same wages that wars would end immediately. Kropp, another soldier, believes that there should be no armies, that instead the nation's leaders should fight out all of their disagreements with clubs. After a discussion on how the war has changed people, Tjaden, another member of Paul's company announces that the cruel Corporal Himmelstoss has come to fight on their front. The company goes to lay barbed wire on the front that night. They are bombarded by shells and corpses are unearthed by the explosions. When the remaining soldiers return, they kill lice and talk about what they would do when the war ends. Then, Himmelstoss comes to the front. Tjaden and Himmelstoss do not get along, being that Tjaden started to insult him upon arrival. I...