... a few cigarettes Kemmerich later gives Muller his prized boots. Muller is a good friend of Kemmerich's and feels he deserves the boots more than the orderlies who will surely take them. He is not the first of Paul's classmates to die, but he is the first that struck a chord in him. Paul reminisces about the days gone by in school when he used to copy from Franz ... make sure Kat was feeling all right. As they were crossing into friendly territory, Paul stumbles into the dressing station and falls with Kat. He has enough sense to drop his friend on his good leg. The orderly tells him Kat...

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... that is why he needs the boots. WWI damaged the soldier's psyche, and the only way for them to survive was to silence their thoughts and feelings and accept the pain of the brutal war. The soldiers no longer feel the sense of a loyalty to the state as in the beginning but rather a sense to survive the harshness of war. The brutality of the war strips away all the aspects of being human. As ... the soldiers get their first experience on the front line, they realize they are no longer human beings but instinctive animals trying to survive day-to-day. "We march up, moody or good-tempered s...

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... until the battle was won or lost. The war scarred the soldiers permanently, if not physically then mentally. After the war the soldiers usually never recovered 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 ... , "Was it very bad out there, Paul?" (143). Here, when he answers, he lies, evidently to protect her from hearing of the horrible conditions that he has just experienced. "Mother, what should I answer to that? You would not understand, you could never realize it. ... The book is ficti...

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All Quiet on the Western Front is a book about the life of a soldier during World War I. 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 ... he would soon die. Paul does not leave Kemmerich's side until he dies. Paul had become fairly good...

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... what the French soldier thought and suffered, because they were the same kind of person in the war, even though they are enemies. They were not the one that caused the war, they could not control the war, they were inculpable, but, they have to fight each other for the people they don't even familiar with. This indicated that the victims of the war are not the countries, not the leaders of the ... war, but the soldiers and only the soldiers in the war. From this event happened on Paul, we can understand that Paul is a very sensitive, compassionate, and pure-hearted man. He felt sorry fo...

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... then snaps back to where Paul just nods his head saying, " it isn't so bad" (p140). After going into town, and encountering a Major on the streets, Paul is given order upon order, building up an appalling rage inside of him. He returns home soon after, and attempts to disguise himself in his ... how deeply was has effected the men. It comes down to the facts that a good pair of boots deems more valuable (and definitely longer lasting) than human life itself. It is later in the novel, after Paul returns from leave that he encounters the enemy, hand to hand. While attempting to retrieve inf...

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... become an everyday routine, there is nothing else for Paul and the other soldiers to do in the muddy and bloody battle zone, so instead they decide to make the best of their time. "Thus momentarily we have the two things a soldier needs for contentment: good food and rest. That's not much when one comes to ... think of it. A few years ago we would despised ourselves terribly. But now we are almost happy. It is all a matter of habit-- even the front- ... line." (pg. 138) This quote discusses that the way of the war had turned Paul and the ... man has time with him, he has an invisible dag...

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... back on wars we tend to concentrate on the results. Who won, and the number of casualties seem to be most important. However, you don't learn anything from that other than the outcome, in All Quiet on the Western Front you see war through the eyes of a soldier, rather than through the pens of the history book writers. War is never good, but always necessary. Most people have no ... experiences with war. So, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front paints a vivid picture of what cruelties really occur ... during war. The significance to the famous saying "War is hell" is .....

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... you were not a "true German- if you did not enlist. Even in schools the teachers were teaching kids the glory of war all the while leaving out the 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 ... his group and is left stranded behind enemy lines. When a French soldier jumps into the trench he is hiding in Paul instinctively stabs him in the stomach with his bayonet. As the man is dying Paul begins to think how he and t...

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... and deserve no reason to live. But what makes the enemy different from them? Both sides believe in fighting for the homeland. Also, Both sides encounter the destruction that a war brings to soldier mentally and physically. For example, in the novel when Paul is explaining to the reader what he feels, he says, "And all ... exemplifies that at one time Paul felt dignity towards himself, and now he feels like he has no place in society. Only the men beside him are experiencing the same horrors that are involved with war day in and day out. However, man is mortal, and in time fellow troops a...

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... 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, ever since I first saw him; he was pretty crazy and impatient. A very good person and 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 to the...

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... many themes are expressed that of which all sum up to the major themes of the senselessness of war. Comradeship, wars brutality, and the lost generation, these themes express the book in its purest form, showing it from a soldier's perspective. "We are at rest five miles behind the front." The importance of this line, the opening line of the book, is to notice that Paul is a first-person narrator ... , and the first word of the book is "We." This shows how Remarque wanted to display comradeship as such an importance. Being the only good ... thing to come out of the war comradeship takes...

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... that keep water out as much as possible. The butterfly is a symbol for the good things in life, that even though there is death and sadness all around them the butterfly is the one thing that reminds them that there are still good things in the world around them. He also uses a horse as a symbol. The horses showed how terrible the war was really by them being gassed and ... and heroic thing, then they would get there and wonder why they signed up. The war ruined many lives of people because they would leave there and their mental state of mind would be gone from all of the horrible thin...

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... they where reassigned to another area. In the search for his unit he is reunited with his friends and joins up with them on the war efforts. Paul finds himself trapped in a shell hole for a long night while searching in "no mans land." During the night a French soldier falls in the hole and Paul has to stab him. The hours to come are very hard for ... Paul as he comforts and waits for the Frenchman to die; this is one of the major examples of Paul becoming dehumanized. His group soon has a stroke of good luck when they were assigned to defend a village ... . Sense the village was vacant...

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... did, for example when Kemmerich dies they just gave his boots away and left him. I thought that when a soldier died his fellow soldiers grieved for him but in this story that is not really the case. This book educates the public and also is a good plot line so it is easy to read. However, I thought that there were too many characters to follow. I kept ... getting confused about who was who and what was happening to what soldier. Other than that I thought this book was very good. One quotation from this book is ... "It will simply try to tell of a generation of men who, even though they...

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... passages of how Erich Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is a horrific tale of the truly devastating effects that world wars bring. All Quiet on the Western Front, as told by a young infantry soldier who describes the horrible realities of World War I's trench warfare and the drastic consequences of the war upon his generation. This touching novel tells the stark truth about all war, that it is ... of War 2) Finally comes the devastating portrayal of the "lost generation". So many of this generation were killed in action, prisoners of war, or so deranged by the war that they were...

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