Question

Based on the excerpts that you read from All Quiet on the Western Front, what did Erich Maria Remarque think about the nationalism that caused the war? Why do you think he decided to write a book that showed the war experience to be so harsh and cruel?

Answer 1

It is an idea that was hollow, hypocritical, ideology, and a tool for controlling people.

Step-by-step explanation:

Eric Maria Remarque thinks that nationalism was an idea that was hollow, hypocritical, ideology, and a tool used by those people who are in power to control the population and use the population in the war. He thinks that nationalism in the eyes of the soldiers who were in the battle front deny people's view because the soldier see the harsh and cruel situation in the war. Eric Maria Remarque decided to write a book in order to show his war experience to the world and teach the people that war is not good for both human and to the world.