Imagine having a peaceful life with family, friends, and a job—a content life. Now picture this situation—shooting people with snipers, bombarding people with bombs, mutilating people with machine guns. If this was the modification that had to be made, minds would go mad. In All Quiet on the Western Front, the author, Erich Remarque, through descriptive syntax, provides the idea that war is an interruption to the lives of these men.
These men—although their age proves them to be more like boys—were living normal lives, until the day they were drafted to the war. Paul had the beginning of a poem written before he was drafted. He said, “Many an evening I have worked over them—we all did something of the kind—but that has become so unreal to me I cannot comprehend it any more. Our early life is cut off from the moment we came here, and that without our lifting a hand.” Writing a poem is such a simple task, yet Paul can’t even take this with him to war. The way Remarque wrote this sentence is very explanatory and straightforward. With this sentence structure, it is easy for the reader to understand the terrors of leaving a typical life and entering the whole new world of combat.
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