All Quiet On The Western Front: Day 1

All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a novel about a man namel Paul and the struggles he faces throughout World War I and how his life is changed after. It is a book of survival; Remarque describes experiences of men on the frontline such as starvation, injury fatigue etc and how they make it through the day. One major event is when Paul goes home on leave to visit family and learns his mother has cancer and is now faced with not only losing his fellow soldiers but his mother due to a disease. He also describes how everything has changed in his hometown, how he is no longer a part of the community he was a part of once but is now a part of the military and has no civilian identity. In the end there are no survivors.