... . Kemmerich is near death, but all he and his fellow troop members can think about are his boots. Paul realizes that outside the war this would not have happened. He and his friends would have been too compassionate towards Kemmerich to even notice his boots. This symbolizes how worthless a human life ... is in a war. It is simply just tossed aside like a rotten apple. Paul also recalls that his parents, teachers, and elders all encouraged he and his friends to enlist, passionately. "For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of ... that, as boys, t...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... to display comradeship as such an importance. Being the only good thing to come out of the war comradeship takes a large place in the novel. Paul's closeness with his comrades begins to grow until he sees the enemy ads comrades with different uniforms. "Comrade, I did not want to kill you ... to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response ." This was said after Paul killed Gerald Duval and realized he had a family and friends just like Paul. In Remarque's epigraph he states that it's dedicated to men destroyed by the war, this having two me...

• Word Count: 533
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School