many accounts of dehumanization and changes the popular belief that war

is an idealistic and romantic character. It is a story, not of Germans, but of

men, who even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by

the war. Each character in this novel shows the dehumanization process

rather clearly. Dehumanization also played a roll in the difficulties

European societies faced between the world wars. Remarque’s purpose

for writing this novel was to illustrate the horror and raw nature of war and

to give people an idea of what these men went through. Paul Baumer is

the main character of the story. When he first enters the story Paul is very

enthusiastic about going to the war. Paul’s schoolmaster, Kantorek, was

the main influence on Paul joining the German army. Although Kantorek

himself would never enlist. With such enthusiasm at first, Paul becomes

weary, broken, and burnt out throughout the course of the war; he

becomes consumed by it at the end. Through Paul Baumer, Remarque

shows how war makes man inhuman. He uses excellent words and

phrases to describe crucial details to this theme. “The first bomb, the first

school, knowing nothing except their own environment and they become

a gunshot wound he handed over his pocketbook and leather boots to

or Kat, was forty years old and known as a wise old man as well as a friend

Paul was given a fourteen day leave so he could visit his ill mother at

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