All Quiet on the Western Front: War and its Purpose Essay -- essays re

     "One is left with the horrible feeling now that contend settles no social function. That to win a contend is as disastrous as to lose one."- Agatha Christie     We as people never stop to think about war and its definition. Accroding to the dictionary, war is defined as a state of antagonism, conlict, antagonism and death. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque tells the story about capital of Minnesota Baumer, the narrator and protagonist of the book , a neneteen year old German soldier who fights in the front lines of Western Europle during Wold War I and describs its synical hateful environment. The autobiographical book, Night by Elie Wiesel, takes place during The Holocaust. Elie, as a young Jewish boy witnessed mass murder and loses his loved ones in the process in the hands of the Nazis while imprisoned in the most notorious death camp, Auchwithz. "I thought I was honoring my country, but I was very wrong " recalled gum benjamin Mejia, a 40 year old army veteran who fought in war during Desert Storm. These descriptions of War follow its definition with high precisement and leads to the raw impartiality. The truth is that through its hostile nature, war negatively affects the lives of the people involved with it buth physically and mentally which they have to carry for the rest of their lives.      War and its antagonistic influence has the latent power of making its victims suffer physically. "I am operated on and vomit for dickens days. My bones get out not grow together, so the surgeons secretary says. It is damnable." express Paul Baumer as he was wounded as a cause of war. It must have been even worrse under the conditions soldiers in the past faced on account of not having the medical advances we have today. Antibiotics were not invented until later on in the century so soldiers back then had to suffer the enduring paing for a much lon ger period of time. "The pain was undefiable. It was like if someone were to stab you with a fiery pitchfork in the back," recalled Benjamin Mejia as he suffered third gear degree burns by an exploding land mine. He also added "I lost all feeling on my back for about a hebdomad and I had to suffer the excruciating pain of my skin peeling off my back." "A line, a short line trudges off in to the morning. Thirty two men.&quo... ...ed both Paul and Kemmerichs mother emotionally due to the fact that Paul did not find anything sacred to him anymore to swear for and Kemmerichs mother for the lost of her son. "His remnant word was my name. A summons, to which I did not respond." said Elie as he visited his fathers grave. He could not feel anything, not even for his own father.     The definiton of war will never change. Its ideal prupose throughly is to cause pain of those who go through it or who are somehow involved. Through my prespect ive, I believe we need less hostility and use other inititatives and methods of reasoning and resolving problems rather than create brutality and increase death in this world. This book, its descriptions, but most importantly, Erich Maria Remarque, has significantly suceeded in emphasizing an in-dept overlook and understandment of what the outcome of war turns out to be which can also be associated with its supporting literature. We cannot prove anything through war the only thing we have proven is how low us humans in general have sunk in resolving conflicts. Anybody has the potential power to kill someone through a simple pull of a trigger.