All Quiet On The Western Front- 5 Main Points

• This is a story about war, you can't expect a happy ending. 
• The book humanizes the act of war. It's no longer a battle that is happening way over there, it is a battle the reader is now apart of, personally.
• If Paul Baumer were to have survived the war and made it back home, I personally believe he still would not have had a happy ending. 
• Paul has lost the ability to live in normal society. He cannot deal with the elders regarding him as a "hero" and he struggles with empathizing with normal civilians.
• This book could be about anyone in the war- German, Russian, French, anyone.