The setting of the book is unique and enhances the story

Remarque begins the novel with an author’s note in which he states “This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.”

The setting of All Quiet on the Western Front has everything to do with the story. Without the setting, there would be no novel. The Western Front during the First World War was a very scary and dangerous place. This definitely creates the mood of the story to be suspenseful.

Before All Quiet on the Western Front, most war novels romanticized war by making it look as though being a soldier in a war was such a great experience filled with heroism and glory. However, Remarque’s book changed people’s views on this as he showed that the life of a soldier during World War One is actually a terrible experience and that nothing good came out of it for the individual soldier. Remarque clearly describes many of the horrors of the war which makes the reader sad, intrigues, ad scared for the protagonist.