Lost Generation In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque shows how the soldiers in World War I are disillusioned and surrounded by human suffering. Surrounded by death and suffering, the boys lose interest in everything but war. The war slowly shapes the attitudes and thoughts of the soldiers toward going home. The lost generation was formed by the constant isolation, violence and disillusionment of the German soldiers of World War …showed first 75 words of 1013 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1013 total…the novel isolated from the world. The Death and suffering of some of the German soldiers in battle filled the rest of the army with fear all the time leading to the lost generation . Paul and his friends along with the rest of the young German soldiers are part of the lost generation and there losses were great but all together the German losses were only a fraction of the losses in the entire war.