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Essay: An anti-war novel often portrays many of the bad aspects and consequences of war. Erich Remarque’s is a novel set in the First World War that is against war. Remarque describes the terrible reality of the war, focusing on the horrors and involved. ....

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.... to get it out…” (p74). The German soldiers attack the enemy with extreme instinctive brutality. “With the butt of his rifle, Kat smashes to pulp one of the machine-gunners…We bayonet the others before they can get their grenades out” (p84). The use of poison gas is also a very brutal practice throughout the novel. Baumer describes this while he is in a gassed area, hoping that his gas mask is working properly. He says, “I know the terrible sights from the field hospital, soldiers who have been gassed, choking for days on end as they spew up their burned-out lungs, bit by bit” (p48). The narrator changes h ....