... the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, is one of the stories that have a great impact on my life. The story centers on Paul Baumer, who enlists in the German army with glowing enthusiasm. But in the course of war, he is consumed by it and in the end is "weary, broken ... , burnt out, rootless, and without hope."" Baumer and his classmates who enlisted into the army see the true reality of the war. They enter the war fresh from school, knowing nothing except the environment of ... know is how to survive. Along with that, they need to know how to escape the shells as w...

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... on one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque's protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to a hardened and somewhat caustic veteran. More importantly, during the course of this metamorphosis, Baumer disaffiliates himself from those societal icons--parents, elders, school, religion--that had been the ... become alien to him. "A sudden feeling of foreignness suddenly rises in me. I cannot find my way back" (Remarque, All Quiet VII. 152). Baumer understands that he is irredeemably lost to the primitive, military, non-academic world of the war. Ult...

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... Western Front As a war develops and progresses, the soldiers of the battlefield are haunted by images of gunfire and the stench of death that are still present in the mind. Paul Baumer, a main character in the novel All Quiet On The Western Front written by Erich Mariaremarque, often describes how war creates feelings of isolation and dehumanization cause by its trench warfare ... ; at the same time, however, he provides examples of experiences in war which might make the young soldiers more human. As Paul Baumer progresses through the book, picturing empty coffins, meeting a Russian pri...

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... line of sanity, but he never fell to pieces. Instead, Baumer had "grown accustomed to it; war is the cause of death like influenza and dysentery. The deaths are merely more frequent, more varied, and terrible," (Insight 321). Paul was able to maintain sanity during war, but at the ... as their pre-enlistment days. In the novel, Paul disaffiliated himself from his parents and others back at home. This rejection came around as a result of Baumer's realization that pre-enlistment society simply does not understand the reality of war. Baumer either could not, or chose not to communicate tru...

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... up until 1918. It is specifically set on the Western Front, between Germany and France The plot of the novel takes the reader through the experiences of a young German recruit, Paul Baumer, and his fellow soldiers, who were encouraged to enlist by their teacher Kantorek. Kantorek glorified the war so that it would appeal to his then students. He told them that ... friends, Kat is the most resourceful. He is always trying to locate food and gather supplies for the group, and is often very successful. Baumer admires his wittiness and strives to be more like him. Paul's troop is often trap...

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... 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 ... and destruction until they break down and go to pieces. Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is a story of the hardships of Paul Baumer, a nineteen year old student, and his friends as they are dehumanized in th...

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There are many similarities and contrasts between the text, Fly Away Peter' by David Malouf and film, All Quiet on the Western Front' directed by Delbert Mann. Many of the characters of both texts have parallels and contrasting points. For instance, Jim Saddler and Paul Bãumer, the main characters from the two texts, were similar in many ways. The conditions, which these characters were placed in, had likenesses and differences. For instance, the patriotic scenes of Brisbane were much a-like the setting at the German high school. There are also the similarities and contrasts of human behaviou...

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... Remarque does an impeccable job conveying the torturous misfortunes of war. Through the eyes of Paul Baumer, a young man shipped off to fight, a story is told of hopelessness and desperation on the front lines of WWI. As Baumer experiences starvation and injury among other hardships, the reader begins to comprehend how tragic a ... he killed. AS compassion cam over him, he could no longer face the violence that had taken over his life. Once a cordial and friendly man, Paul Baumer had been made into a monster, lacking all feelings of remorse. This situation describes the emotional ordeal...

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... the Western Front," is based on true events that happened around 1916. This is a war movie that dealt with Germans and the French, in WWI. Paul Baumer was the main character, but still I liked the way he acted, and how real some of his stunts were. I did not like Corporal Himmelstoss, ... very patient guy was Stainislaus Katczinsky, all his recruits loved him. Paul Baumer, a nineteen-year-old student, convinced to enlist with German army by his schoolmaster, Kentorek. Paul and many of his friends from school were trained together by Corporal Himmelstoss. Paul had a best friend who went...

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... of the war himself. In this essay, the following issues that the novel brings up will be discussed from the point of view of the main character Paul Baumer in respective order: Routines, the Horrors of war and its effects, and Realistic Descriptions. Routines played a major part in this novel. They were frequently ... significant habit that the soldiers made obvious was the somewhat "skill" in gathering food for himself and his comrades. In one scene, it shows how Paul Baumer and his best friend Katczinsky put on a great show of team work to capture 2 live turkeys and turn them into a mi...

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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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... cut off from the very life, which is in fact their birthright, before they had found a set idea for living. Paul Baumer, the narrator of the story, and his fellow classmates unpretentiously enter military service, but much to their chagrin, the realities of war soon revolutionize ... (Krutch Overview 1) The theme of alienation is truly the most deeply felt, though the impact of the war on the spirit is subtle. Paul and his fellow comrades find themselves less and less able to return to civilian life while friends continue to die all around them. Albert complains about ... "Stolen youth...

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... It focuses on a young German soldier by the name of Paul Baumer and the changes and struggles he faces throughout the war. Paul is nineteen years old and had survived being in the front, was considered to be a veteran had such a young age. Baumer and his classmates had volunteered for the war and their decision ... was mainly based upon what their schoolteacher had been telling them. The book starts off where the German soldiers are resting right after they had just fought a battle. Paul talks about how they had all lined ... training in which they were under the command of a man by 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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... Western Front is a war story of the experiences that Paul Baumer encounters while living through the harsh habitat and situations that he and his close friends are put into. The author, Erich Maria Ramarque, makes the reader feel in the action as he describes in depth the countless brushes with death that Baumer goes through while being on the front line in World ... War 1. It begins when Baumer and a group of his friends and classmates have enlisted in the German Army. As the book begins we are already part of the ... -war. It shows the civilian who did not have to experience the war u...

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... involved with World War One. The soldiers" name is Paul Baumer, a nineteen-year-old student who is convinced to join the German army by his schoolmaster, Kantorek. Some of his classmates are also convinced to join by Kantorek. While in the service, Paul meets many others who play an important part in his ... begins acting mysteriously. Two days later he is missing and was said to have been captured by the German military police. While he is gone, Paul says the German military police could have no idea that Detering's disappearance "was only homesickness and a momentary aberration. But wh...

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... beforehand of the war itself and exactly 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. Stanislaus Katczinsky (known to the men as Kat) is a soldier in Paul's Company and becomes Paul's best friend in the army ... men, both in his Company and on the outside. Corporal Himmelstoss was a training officer who lets power go to his brain and nearly tortur...

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... Paul Baumer's company had moved behind the German front lines for a short rest at the beginning of the novel. After Behm became Paul's first dead schoolmate, Paul viewed the older generation bitterly, particularly Kantorek, the teacher who convinced Paul and his classmates to join the military, feeling alone and betrayed in the world that they had left for him. Paul ... world due to the fact that they had never truly established any part of themselves in civilian life. At boot camp, Himmelstoss abused Paul and his friends, yet the harassment only brought them closer together and developed...

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The story "All Quiet on the Western Front" centers on a young man named Paul Baumer narrates the story. Paul is of the age of nineteen, when he is convinced to enlist in the German army in the World War I. Paul and several of his friends are encouraged to join the army by their teacher Kantorek, ... With today's world and me being of age to go to war, this story was realistic and frightening to me. I could imagine myself walking in Paul's shoes. Remarque novel is simply written, easy to read, and yet portrays life as realistically complicated. The central idea of the novel describes the hor...

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... war fresh from school, knowing nothing except the environment of hopeful youth) were, if not physically, then mentally destroyed by the war. The main character Paul Baumer is a compassionate and sensitive young man; before the war he loved his family, his books, and he even wrote poetry. He enters the war looking ... left him in a hardened, emotionless, and hopeless state with no desire to continue living. Having learned to be an adult while fighting the war, Paul and his fellow classmates only know how to be soldiers. The cold, wet trenches are their homes now and they fear they will nev...

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... book by Erick Maria Remarque. It takes place during World War I on the French Front. Paul Baumer is a boy of 19 years, who voluntarily joined the Army with several of his friends after hearing a patriotic speech given at his school. Paul and his friends realized that being patriotic comes with a costs - hard work, brutal life and ... ideas. At dinner he suggests that if all soldiers were treated the equally, fed the equally and got paid the equally, War would immediately stop. Kropp, Paul's friend believes that leaders should set up clubs discussing their disagreements. When it is dark, ...

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All quiet on the Western Front, a novel was written by Erich Maria Remarque, is a great novel that about the World War I. Paul Bãumer was a young man at 19 years old, his high school teacher placed intense pressure on Paul and his classmates to fulfill their "patriotic duty" by enlisting in the army. Those innocent teenagers joined the war barely because of their enthusiasms, when they saw the true meaning of the war, all of their enthusiasms have gone, and they no longer believed that the war is honorable. The war brought everything that are bad to Paul and his friends, the lived in terror a...

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Erich Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel that graphically depicts the horrors of front-line battles in World War I. Paul Baumer is a German soldier; a young man that signed up to defend his nation's cause with his classmates. Their schoolmaster, a man named Kantorek, ... told them that enlisting was their duty. The leader of their welcoming party was Corporal Himmelstoss. This pitiless man abhorred Paul and Co. and made their lives miserable. Himmelstoss forced the men to do taxing drills in the mud and rain. Although the men resented the corporal ... upon receiving the new...

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... true horror of life at the front. The movie All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a young German named Paul Baumer. In the beginning of the movie Paul is an naive student who has been taught all his life that war is the only way to achieve honor for himself and his ... family. Over the course of the movie Paul changes from a nave, idealistic nationalist to a pragmatic, disillusioned humanist through three main events in the plot line: Franz's death, the death of a Frenchman, and ... Kat's death. Franz Kemmerick was a forester out of the same class as Paul. Franz gets shot i...

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... from the war. Two of the most common side affects of the war were shell shock and stir crazy. The story is told by Paul Baumer, a German soldier during World War I. Paul first enlists with a group of his friends who all have much enthusiasm towards the war. They think that war is going to be ... leave and comes home to visit his mother. He feels separated from society, "I find I do not belong here anymore, it is a foreign world"(168). Paul's further participation in war separates him from the life which he cherished so greatly. When he and his mother greet each other, he realizes that he...

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