This novel shows the existentialist way of thinking in the way that each person's life in the war was unique and the existence of that individual is unexplainable. Each move and each act is that person's responsibility, which may lead to something else, sometimes the difference between life and death. There is no God to watch over man, to dictate morality, or to reassure justice. Instead, the universe is indifferent and hostile to a soldier's life. In the book, this indifference is portrayed best by the war, which is an ultimately hostile and deadly struggle of man against man. …
