Question

A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And this is only one hospital, one single station; there are hundreds of thousands in Germany, hundreds of thousands in France, hundreds of thousands in Russia. How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought when such things are possible. It must all be lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.

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This text is an excerpt from "All Quiet on the Western Front" written by Erich Maria Remarque. In this story we are introduced to Paul Baumer, a German soldier in the first world war. The book presents all the terrors and destruction that a war is capable of causing and in the excerpt presented in the question above, we can see Paul showing the conditions of the wounded and dead soldiers in the war hospital, a scene that impacts him a lot and makes him very thoughtful about what the war is causing and what will be the future of all who are there. That's because he entered the army with a very patriotic thought, but he realized that war has nothing to do with patriotism, but with death, pain and suffering.