The Horrors of War Throughout their lives, people must deal with the horrific and violent side of humanity. The side of humanity is shown through the act of war. This is shown in Erich Remarque’s novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front”. War is by far the most horrible thing that the human race has to go through. The participants in the war suffer irreversible damage by the atrocities they witness and the things …showed first 75 words of 729 total…

…showed last 75 words of 729 total…take a man’s life. All the participants in the war must live with the fact that they have killed men that were very much like themselves. With all the reasons that war is bad, one can understand why in the end Paul was happier in death than he was in life. Paul being happy that he did not have to lead a life of anymore is perhaps the beat example of how war is.