The Road Back | Techniques
In The Road Back, Remarque answers the questions posed by Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front about what will happen to the youth who were caught up in World War I. In its simple structure, The Road Back recounts the traumatic times Birkholz and his friends experience. They return to a chaotic world in which inflation and profiteering are rampant and food is scarce. The returning soldiers are indeed superfluous, especially the disabled.
Within the narrative, suicide becomes the only solution for many like Ludwig Breyer and George Rahe; moreover,...
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