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Book Review By Damon LaBarbera
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

This novel contains the thoughts, musings, and observations of a German foot soldier during the trench fighting of World War One. The prose is unromantic, matter of fact, and starkly beautiful. His introspections exact and detailed, the young man records the decline of his initial schoolboy enthusiasm into a sense of disaffected futility--and anger at those pedants, bureaucrats, and functionaries who have sent his friends and classmates to death and misery.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - depressing/sad
Time/era of story:
War Thriller Yes
Armed Forces: - Army
Specific to - WW I
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
descript. of violence and chases - 20 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 30 %

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Ethnicity/Race

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status:
Motive of antagonist - power
The antagonists are: - government bureaucracy
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence

Setting
Forest? Yes
Misc setting - fort/military installation

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey references to deaths/dead bodies and torture
Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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