All Quiet on the Western Front: War and its Purpose Essay -- essays re

     "One is left with the horrible whimsy now that fight settles nonhing. That to win a state of warfarefare is as disastrous as to retire one."- Agatha Christie     We as people never stop to think about war and its definition. Accroding to the dictionary, war is defined as a state of hostility, conlict, antagonism and death. each(prenominal) Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque tells the bill about Paul Baumer, the narrator and protagonist of the book , a neneteen division old German soldier who fights in the front lines of Western Europle during Wold war I and describs its synical hateful environment. The autobiographical book, Night by Elie Wiesel, takes place during The Holocaust. Elie, as a young Jewish boy witnessed mass murder and loses his love ones in the process in the hands of the Nazis while imprisoned in the to the highest degree nonorious death camp, Auchwithz. "I thought I was honoring my country, but I was very wrong " recalled Benjamin Mejia, a 40 year old army veteran who fought in war during withdraw from Storm. These descriptions of War fol small(a) its definition with high precisement and leads to the raw truth. The truth is that finished its hostile nature, war negatively affects the lives of the people involved with it buth physically and mentally which they have to carry for the rest of their lives.      War and its antagonistic influence has the capability power of making its victims allow physically. "I am operated on and scour for two days. My bones will not grow together, so the surgeons depositary says. It is damnable." said Paul Baumer as he was wounded as a cause of war. It must have been even worrse under the conditions soldiers in the olden faced on account of not having the medical advances we have today. Antibiotics were not invented until later on in the century so soldiers back thence had to suffer the end uring woundg for a much longer period of time. "The pain was undefiable. It was like if someone were to stab you with a fiery pitchfork in the back," recalled Benjamin Mejia as he suffered third degree burns by an exploding land mine. He also added "I lost all feeling on my back for about a week and I had to suffer the excruciating pain of my skin peeling off my back." "A line, a short line trudges off in to the morning. Thirty two men.&quo... ...ed both(prenominal) Paul and Kemmerichs mother emotionally due to the fact that Paul did not find anything sacred to him anymore to swear for and Kemmerichs mother for the lost of her son. "His fit word was my name. A summons, to which I did not respond." said Elie as he visited his fathers grave. He could not feel anything, not even for his own father.     The definiton of war will never change. Its ideal prupose throughly is to cause pain of those who go through it or who are somehow inv olved. Through my prespective, I believe we essential less hostility and use other inititatives and methods of reasoning and resolving problems quite an than create brutality and increase death in this world. This book, its descriptions, but most importantly, Erich Maria Remarque, has significantly suceeded in emphasizing an in-dept overlook and understandment of what the outcome of war turns out to be which can also be associated with its supporting literature. We cannot sample anything through war the only thing we have proven is how low us humans in general have sunk in resolving conflicts. Anybody has the potential power to kill someone through a simple pull of a trigger.