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All Quiet on the Western Front & A Farewell to Arms “The Lost Generation” Literary Analysis In both books, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the subject of war is seen in two strikingly different perspectives. War was thought to be productive and nesscesary by the older generation and central political figures, but when one hears the viewpoint of the young men who actually had to encounter it, it is a much different story. War affects the lives of people in ways that the average person cannot even begin to comprehend. The end result of the war produced a group of men coming home, who were so disillusioned and lost that they were referred to as “The Lost Generation.” Ernest Hemingway can find an example of the Lost Generation in the book, A Farewell to Arms. The main character, Lieute