... thoughts. Soldiers must keep on their strict schedules; eat, drink, smoke, and kill. As long as the soldiers were kept busy with what came next, they didn't have to think. Paul Baumer endures an emotional period with the dying French man that he was not expecting. So for it had been automatic to defend himself and kill the enemy, but real emotion ... that he wasn't prepared for. His thoughts of compassion feel like stab wounds. He is forced to come to grips with a man's slow suffering and eventual death. Remarque's story of Paul Baumer's life in the war is a perfect example of how a cri...

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... patriotic speeches of their beloved schoolmaster, Mr. Kantorek. The young men soon realize that these ideals of nationalism and patriotism are empty promises. Paul and his friends soon realize that war is not glorious and honorable. He and his fellow comrades start to feel the effects of the ... are dehumanized and de-individualized because they no longer view themselves as individual human beings but rather animals trying to survive the agony of war. Paul Baumer and his classmates volunteer for WWI on the belief in patriotism and nationalism. Their schoolmaster, parents, friends and the...

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... Front "War is hell" is a blunt but true way to describe all wars. This statement portrays Paul Baumer's true feelings pertaining to the gruesome experiences he encountered through the duration of the war, when he was alive. For Paul Baumer a German soldier in World War II, war was more than hell. It changed, and ultimately ... ended his life at a young age. In All Quiet on the Western Front Paul Expresses this idea by stating, "I am young, I am twenty years old ... home ill. He deals with his fellow soldiers dying, and the fact that it could be him dying at any moment. In a sensitive st...

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... and mentally shattered by World War I. The novel is brutally honest and is told from the unique first-person viewpoint of a young German soldier, Paul Baumer. From the first hand accounts of Remarque, who served in the war, Baumer's depiction of the horrors and degradations of war, and the physical, spiritual and psychological toll it takes on all its participants gains credibility and ... , the anxiety and soul-deadening suffering that is the result of "modern" mechanized trench warfare. Remarque brutally strips away these misconceptions with his grimly poetic prose to reveal truth. As ...

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... All Quiet on the Western Front is based on the book written by Erich Maria Remarque. It tells the story of a German schoolboy named Paul Baumer who dreamed of someday having heroic glory while serving in the military along with some of his childhood classmates. They told stories and dreamed of battles ... where together, they were the heroes who won the fights , saved lives and became famous. The story begins with a childhood fantasy and ends with Paul and his friends facing the real horror of actual war as a soldier. Their journey is a coming of age tale that tells of the ugliness of ....

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... each other for help. Sir Gawain sacrificed himself many times in order to help another human being (the slaying of the Green Knight or marrying the "loathly lady," for example). Paul Baumer relied entirely on the support of his many comrades. The soldiers provided physical, and more importantly, spiritual support for each other during the horrible times that they were enduring. Even ... killing the animal after doing so. He realized, as we should, it is most important to follow your own instincts and disregard others" suggestions should they interfere with your beliefs. Paul teaches the...

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