Class Discussion

In class yesterday we talked about the events that made All Quiet on the Western Front such a famous book.  Below are some points we discussed:

• The book is a tribute to the lost generation of people that were in the first World War.  
• We talked about Himmelstoss and how his outside life without authority affected how we was during the war, power crazy.
• Germans either fight authority or suck up to authority
• How the war was the identity of the men who were in the war.  When they went to war they didn't have an identity so the war became it.  And after the war they no longer had an identity.
• How the book was advertised well and how it became such a popular book after the raw emotions and feelings of the war settled and past 10 years later. 
• Erich Maria Remarque became filthy rich with the book.
• Anti-War book
• The characters in the book represented the whole generation