... how and why it was brought about. Very early on in the novel we learn of those in Paul's company. Paul Baumer himself is just 19 years old at the start of the war. He had entered under extreme pressure from Kantorek (their teacher) along with the rest of his classmates and enlisted ... time with Kat and saying, "Do I walk? Have I feet still? Then I know nothing more" (p245). Paul's experiences throughout the war include some other men, both in his Company and on the outside. Corporal Himmelstoss was a training officer who lets power go to his brain and nearly tortures Paul and his frien...

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... to the camp, they think about what they are going to do at the end of the War. Most of the men feel that the War will never end. Paul wonders if the War did end what he will do. The Company gets caught in a gruesome battle. Paul feels that to keep himself alive, he must trust ... near a Russian prison. He realizes that they are not the enemies, and he wonders why War holds grudges on people that have no harmful feelings toward each other. Paul returns and goes to battle. He is separated from his Company and hides in a shell hole. A soldier jumps in with him, and without knowing whom ......

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... dead men, who through some trick, some dreadful magic, are still able to run and to kill", Paul claims. Paul loses friends, soldiers from his company, and confidence in his country. For many aspiring young adults, the risk of failing serves as a constant burden. Without adult experiences such as trial and ... During this attack Paul began to truly grieve over the hardships of war. It was at the graveyard that all of the soldiers were forced to accept death as a part of life. The older men of his company had families to think of while waiting for fire to cease. The ... ; they had a futur...

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... dead men, who through some trick, some dreadful magic, are still able to run and to kill", Paul claims. Paul loses friends, soldiers from his company, and confidence in his country. For many aspiring young adults, the risk of failing serves as a constant burden. Without adult experiences such as trial and ... During this attack Paul began to truly grieve over the hardships of war. It was at the graveyard that all of the soldiers were forced to accept death as a part of life. The older men of his company had families to think of while waiting for fire to cease. The ... ; they had a futur...

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... it was to die for your country. Kantorek persuaded Paul along with many of his schoolmates to volunteer and join the war. In the first chapter you really understand how war can change a man. Half of Paul's company was killed in a battle with the French. The men got back and all they could think about was food. ... returned. When they found out that they could have double the portions they all were happy and stuffed their faces while half their company lay dead. This is when you realize how bad war really is. They don't even look back on their fallen comrades; just that there is finally en...

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... people, with valuable aspirations and dreams, are being pulled into the battle and forced to fight courageously, only to have a grave as a reward. War does not only destroy lives and property, but also destroys the human spirit. These Soldiers are subjects to emotional as well as physical torment; eyes being ... give up his boots, however, when Muller dies, the boots pass on to Paul, and seemingly the boots see out the rest of the war on someone else's feet. From this we learn that things are more important than people. The competition for Kemmerich's boots underlines this desensitization...

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... a sudden shelling was resulted in the severe wounding of a recruit that Paul had comforted earlier. Paul and Kat again strongly questioned the War. After Paul's company were returned to the huts behind the lines, Himmelstoss appeared and was insulted by some of the members of Paul's" unit, who were ... then only mildly punished. During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul's unit were killed. Paul was given leave and returned home only to find himself very distant from his family as a result of the war ... message came across very clearly. There were constant tragedies that forced Pa...

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... a sudden shelling resulted in the severe wounding of a recruit that Paul had comforted earlier. Paul and Kat again strongly questioned the War. After Paul's company were returned to the huts behind the lines, Himmelstoss appeared and was insulted by some of the members of Paul's unit, who ... were then only mildly punished. During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul's unit were killed. Paul was given leave and returned home only to find himself very distant from his family as a result of the war ... world. He found no belonging to civilization but instead a brotherhood amongst his ...

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... is thrust into the German army on the strong ideals of nationalism and patriotism. Paul, the young German, and his fellow schoolmates join the war voluntarily after listening to the patriotic speeches of their beloved schoolmaster, Mr. Kantorek. The young men soon realize that these ideals of nationalism and ... WWI 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, pa...

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... war destroyed young men's lives both in mental and physical ways. Those originally strong and healthy young men all have been treated like animals, sometimes even worse. They got totally lost on the battle field. The most impressive event for me in this book was the in one of the battles which is in chapter 9: Paul separated from his company ... consoled them, and tell them they will recover very soon in order to appease their fear of death. Of course, like all of the soldiers, Paul hated the war, and fear about it, but he did not evade, he was brave. I like Paul; I admire the strong spir...

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... , the skinny locksmith of nineteen years, food is one of the few things that he will not allow the war to rob him of. He is known as the "biggest eater of the company." When the army is called to the battlefield during dinner time, Tjaden gulps down every last bite of his ... to a full stomach, than an empty one, but Tjaden cannot calculate in such statistical terms. Food is food. Almost every human luxury from his pre-war life has been taken away, but food and the ability to enjoy it full heartily is still within him, a comfort that keeps him going. Nature serves ... beneath them. It's ...

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... and they had many similarities. Both Kat and Paul would have never known each other during peacetime, but the war had brought their lives together in a crucible of horror. At the starting of the war, many recruits had to leave their families to join hundreds of other recruits who left their love ones behind also ... a family would do in a terrifying situation. The recruits protected and looked out for each other, they also got along very well. When the men witness the war and how depressing it is, they go to each other for moral support. The sounds of shells roaring in the skies scared t...

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... not extremely poor, but they could have been financially better while he was growing up. Lawrence got his first job at fourteen when he went to work for a medical supply company (Worthen 182). While there he mostly wrote letters and did clerical work. This was his first working experience in life, which was good because it also taught him lessons about ... he finally married his longtime sweetheart Frieda Weekly. But the marriage defiantly got off on the wrong foot because of his wife's obvious German origin and the outbreak of World War I. In the end it was truly not to be, because in ...

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