Now that you have finished reading All Quiet on the Western Front, please discuss these three questions with your critical friends. Post a response to one of these questions on your blog. Be sure to integrate the responses of your critical friends in your answer...
1. What is ironic, or dramatically unexpected about the novel's ending?
2. What images of the novel are lingering in your mind? Explain why these images made a lasting impression on you.
3. Do you think Paul can claim to speak for an entire "lost generation" when he speaks of the effects of war? In Paul's opinion war ruins those who survive as must as those who die. Do you think his fellow soldiers felt the same way about war?
I believe that All Quiet on the Western Front was an incredible book, it would get you entranced on its pages, and it would entrance you to keep on reading. I believe that the plot was amazing and that it is deserving of the title "best war novel of all time".
As for what pertains to the questions, I believe that the book does have a lot of plot twists, and unexpected turns that just throw you off, but catch even more your attention. I believe that the most prominent of these plot twists is when in the end Paul Baumer dies. I was definitely not expecting to "see" the protagonist of the story to die, but it just goes on to show you the savagery of war.
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