... 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 and fear every single day. They ... their different nationalities, he had very good relationships with his friends, when his friends wounded, he consoled them, and tell them they will recover very soon in order to appease their fear of death. Of co...

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... out, rootless, and without hope." Through Baumer, Remarque examines how war makes man inhuman. He uses excellent words and phrases to describe crucial details to this theme. "The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts." 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 hopeful ... be pushed aside and forgotten and the years will past, and in the end they will fall into ruin. All Quiet on the Western Front tries to explain the purpose of war and its uselessnes...

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... that made Paul Baumer immediately stab Charles Duval when he joined him in the shell hole. When he tells the story to his friends, they unanimously agree that he has done the right thing in killing the French soldier. However only Baumer seems to question his own actions for killing the soldier, Paul realizes that Duval was just another soldier fighting for the ... same cause. He asks, "Why do they never tell us that you are just poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious ... we have the same fear of death and the same dying and the same agony. Forgive me, comrade how c...

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