Throughout the dark and horrifying pictures of death and inhumanity, Erich Remarque scatters a profound brilliance, a redeeming quality, in one of the greatest war novels of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front. During this stirring novel, 20-year-old Paul Bäumer, a German soldier of World War I, was thrown into a frenzied world of blood and bombardment, flung pitilessly into the vile world of war. Nonetheless, the senseless battle …showed first 75 words of 781 total…

…showed last 75 words of 781 total…comrades. Never had we seen him more doleful than when he said, "Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone and so without hope that I can confront them without fear" (295). He no longer had comrades; he no longer had anything. Through hardship and happiness― through death and dreams― these imperfect men proved that they were perfect for one another.