All Quiet On The Western Front Movie vs Book

After reading the novel and watching the movie “All Quiet on the Western Front” the novel proved to be a lot better for learning about World War I. The novel is called the best war novel for a reason. Erich Maria Remarque‘s novel is so powerful you can almost perfectly picture how living in the war was like and what the trench conditions were like. The novel was better than the movie because in the novel food was very hard to get. But in the movie, it seemed as if acquiring food was not hard at all. At various points in the novel, the novel digs right into your emotions and after watching the movie, it leaves the viewer almost emotionless.

The movie had no hint that gas bombs were used during the war but in the novel usage of gas, bombs were quite frequent. The novel was better than the movie because the novel shows how scarce food was, it gets into your emotions, and it talks about gas bomb usage. Food proved to be scarce in the novel while it wasn’t as scarce in the movie. For example on page 108 in the first full paragraph, it says, “We pull in our belts tighter and chew every mouthful three times as long. Still, the food does not last out; we are damnably hungry.

I take out a scrap of bread, eat the white and put the crust back in my knapsack; from time to time I nibble at it. ” Food was also rare back at home and an example of this is, “It is pretty bad for food here? ” I enquire. “Yes, there is not much. Do you get enough our there? “This can be found on page 160 on the third paragraph from the bottom. There was only one scene in the movie that suggested that food was a little hard to get. It was near the end of the movie right before Katczinsky died. Paul had just come back from leave and he went to his division.

Question: All Quiet On The Western Front Movie vs Book. What is the significance of the title of the movie All Quiet on the Western Front?

Answer: Between both sides, nothing happens but death no moving forward for if you do you get pushed back or die.

He asked for where Katczinsky was and Tjaden said that he was out looking for food. Paul went to look for him. When he found Kat, he had no food and Kat said he can’t find any. This shows that the movie was unrealistic when it came to the availability of food in Germany during World War I. The book managed to get into the reader’s emotion really well. For example, on page 291 in the second to last paragraph, it says, “Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move around, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. The main character had a strong bond with Kat during the book and Kat and Paul did a lot of things together. Then all of a sudden Paul’s last hope dies. This leaves the reader and Paul said. Another example of how the novel just gets right into your emotions is on page 295 in the last paragraph, “I am very quiet. Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not.

But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me. ” This is a very powerful ending. He is saying his life is so torn apart that nothing worse can happen to him. This is also a fairly sad ending too because this is almost exactly how the survivors of the World War I felt. In the movie when Kat dies after he is hit in the head, it leaves the viewer almost unaffected because Paul and Kat did not have as strong bond in the movie as they did in the novel. After Paul took Kat to the doctors and they told him that Kat was dead, Paul looked a little sad and just walked away.

That is nowhere near how he felt in the novel. In the novel, there were quite a few instances where gas bombs were used on the Germans. An example of when gas bombs were used is on page 104 in the second full paragraph, “At night they send over gas. We expect the attack to follow and lie with our masks on, ready to tear them off as soon as the first shadow appears. ” This happened during one of the first bombardments when they were all sitting in bombproof dugouts. Since gas bombs have a unique sound, the soldiers are able to distinguish between gas bombs and regular shells.

On page 131 in the second paragraph, there is another example,

“A surprise gas attack carries off a lot of them. They have not yet learned what to do. We found one dugout full of them, with blue heads and black lips. ”

In this quote, the author is referring to the young recruits when he says “them” and “they”. What the recruits did not know that gas lies longest in hollows. They thought that it was safe to take of their gas masks because the people above had them off but it resulted in them dying from the poison gas. There was a whole bunch of scenes in the movie where there has heavy bombardment.

But there was not a single scene about the gas bombing. This is another reason that proves that the novel was better to learn about World War I. Redakteur Stohr was correct about what he said about the book which was,

“The greatest war book that has yet been written. ” There is no movie that can be better to learn about World War I than the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front. ”

The novel proved to be better because it talked about the scarcity of food, it got into your emotions, and it talked about gas bomb usage. None of this was in the movie.

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All Quiet on the Western Front

1st edition cover
Author	Erich Maria Remarque
Original title	Im Westen nichts Neues
Translator	A. W. Wheen
Illustrator	Carl Laemmle
Cover artist	Erich Maria Remarque
Country	Germany
Language	German
Genre	War novel
Publisher	Propyläen Verlag
Publication date	January 29, 1929
Published in English	Little, Brown and Company, 1929
Pages	200
OCLC	295972o