All Quiet on the Western Front analysis

Remarque's presentation of World War 1 in "All Quiet on the Western Front" gives the soldier's point of view of the war from their eyes, we see the German soldiers fighting the war and visiting their friend 'Franz' in one of the hospitals whilst being off duty. The reader is told that the soldier has in fact lost his leg but is yet to be told by the doctors or friends in attempts to somewhat keep his sanity before what is inevitably portrayed as his impending death. "He looks terrible, yellow and pallid and his face already has those weird lines that we are so familiar with because we have seen them a hundred times before." The clear signs of the constant death and trauma that the soldiers are constantly put through and witnessing before them seems never ending to the extent that they now seem to have become accustom to seeing fellow friends, not just dying. But slowly being withered away because of disease and infection for weeks upon end. This gives the reader a clear view of how difficult war is on the soldiers not just physically as presented by Franz losing his leg, but also the psychological effects on his friends that now must watch him slowly die.