Erich Maria Remarque’s use of point of view to develop the theme of the immorality of war in All Quiet on the Western Front

            The heroism of fighting in war has often been romanticized by movie directors and authors. After World War I, there wasn’t an immediate surge of war novels being written until the late 1920’s. The writing about war experiences has often been used by veterans as a therapeutic strategy to cope with the stresses from the war.  Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is a war novel that was written with the intention of providing the layperson with a sense of what soldiers experience while in combat and on leave. The use of point of view in All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque allows the reader to experience the wartime emotions and actions of a German infantry soldier in World War I.