Reading “All Quiet on the Western front” completely changed my view on not just World War 1, but war all together. The author was able to describe the carnage of warfare with great detail. As I read the book I began to feel the loneliness, pain, and depression the soldiers felt while fighting the war. Even when the main character was given a 17 day vacation where he returned home to his family I still got the same feeling of hopelessness I got from when they were fighting on the front.
Overtime all of the main characters friends slowly died off and as the book went on it gave off more of a depressing feeling. Even though the book made me depressed and fearful about war it was still a surprisingly good book. It took me a long time to really get into reading the novel, but when I began to understand what was happening it became a lot more fun to read.