... cook had prepared for one hundred men but there were only seventy left. He said he was not going to distribute the food until everyone was there. He realized that not all of the men returned. When they found out that they could have double the portions they all were happy and stuffed their faces while half ... That is anti-war when you forget about your friend and care more about his boots. During Chapter seven Paul is on a leave and sent home for a short period of time. He returns home wondering how many of his friends are going to die while he is gone. He returns home to find his mothe...

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... many respects because of the future hopes and dreams the men lost, the youth and innocence that was taken away from them, and the families and friends that were removed from their lives for good. First, the young soldiers in World War I were a lost generation. They were sent off to war ... parents and some, perhaps a girl..some enthusiasm, a few hobbies and our school. And of this nothing remains" (Insight 210). As the novel continued, Paul realized that he had to accept the war. He recognized that he must stop pitying himself in saying, "...all my generation is experiencing these things"...

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... , in scenes of battle and rest, the reader sees the camaraderie of these men. In chapter nine, when Paul is alone in the trench, he loses his nerve and his direction and is afraid he will die. Instead, he hears the voices of his friends: "I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same fear and the same life ... ideals of patriotism, which led them to voluntarily join the war. The patriotic myths of war that the older generation portrayed became more apparent to Paul through the course of his journey of war. When Paul and his friends talk about enemies, they do not speak of the so...

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... . 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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... 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...

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• Grade Level: High School