Black and white, good and bad, just and injust, these are how people/things are categorized. Some opinions of these can be agreed upon by the vast majority, others can not. These differences of opinions are called controversies which create an imaginary line between people. This line can be ignored or noticed so much that parties in disagreement begin to hate each other. If that hate is big enough, the parties begin to hurt each other as well. History has been written on these controversies and bits of its pieces have been put into textbooks which kids learn about the past. Bits of pieces means anything but the whole truth. In addition to not learning the whole truth about the past, we have hundreds of people who put themselves in authority through either science, literature, or even religion that tell us what to do. In this case, how are enemies and allies decided in a world where everyone is fighting their own war?

  In All Quiet on the Western Front, many of the soldiers wonder why they are fighting this war and they doubt if them doing is even right and if their opposition is truly wrong. For example, Kropp says, “‘We are here to protect our fatherland. And the French are over there to protect their fatherland. Now who’s in the right?’” Erich Maria Remarque, described Kropp as one of the intelligent people in the story and he speculates his entire decision to fight the war. Remarque must have had a reason to implement this into his story. He could have glorified the soldiers in their pursuit to win the war, but instead he chose to write about the war as a fight to simply survive. The soldiers truly had no side, they simply wanted to get out of the war alive. So if this can happen in such a impactful war like World War l, is there any event that was or is safe from this “right or wrong” that is forced upon our society?