Paul Baumer "All Quiet On The Western Front The story of Paul Baumer, the narrator from 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. ... A new perspective of the battlefield was presented in which soldiers of opposite forces are in much of the same state: frightened human beings with family and loved ones at home, attempting to avoid death each day by whatever means possible; many very likely questioning the purpose of war ...

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Paul Baumer is the main character of the story. ... Paul's schoolmaster, Kantorek, was the main influence on Paul joining the German army. ... Paul's corporal is a strictly disciplined commander who dislikes Paul because of his defiance. ... After a few more weeks Paul and Kropp parted, Paul going to war and Kropp going home. ... Paul believed Kat had a sixth sense. ...

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Paul's friends let him one by one, Paul got alone, and finally died in peace at the end of the war. ... A French soldier jumped in, and Paul stabbed him instinctively. ... This was the first time Paul fight with his enemy hand to hand. ... From this event happened on Paul, we can understand that Paul is a very sensitive, compassionate, and pure-hearted man. ... I like Paul; I admire the strong spirit of him. ...

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Paul decides to go ahead and visit one of is an old classmate who is Kemmerich. Kemmerich had suffered a wound and it was obvious to Paul that he would soon die. Paul does not leave Kemmerich's side until he dies. Paul had become fairly good friends with this forty-year-old soldier who goes by the name Kat. ... One of Paul's other classmates by the name of Kropp, has a different opinion on the war....

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The most touching scene in the movie was when Paul killed a man in the field. ... Paul then realized that this man was just like him, a scared man fighting for his life. ... Paul eventually gets his chance for leave. ... For this, Paul is looked upon as a coward. ... When out by themselves, Kat is shot and Paul is forced to carry him back. ...

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Paul and Albert Kropp, one of Paul's young friends, were wounded and put on a train to seek treatment for their injuries. ... The most heart breaking loss for Paul was Kat. ... Paul is now the only one left. The concluding chapter leads to Paul's death. ... I could imagine myself walking in Paul's shoes. ...

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In order to reconnect with his past Paul returns to his room. ... Paul continues to wait but his quiet rapture does not come. no matter how hard Paul tries to retreat to his prewar mentality he is unsuccessful. It is now that Paul realizes the war has truly ruined him. ... When Paul's mother asks "was is very bad out there, Paul?" ... People talk too much for Paul. ...

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Therefore, Paul's generations of young men are doomed to an inevitable mental alteration. In chapter 7, when Paul talks to the French women, they are interested in Paul because he is young, and lives a dangerous life in the war. When Paul tells one of the ladies that he isn't returning to the trench, but is on leave, she quickly becomes disinterested in Paul. ... The soldier represents their patriotic and nationalistic ideals, so they feel obliged to talk to Paul. ... Paul could have fought for France and the premise of the book would still have remained intact. ...

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Paul narrates the story quite vividly, presenting exclusive imagery. Paul has several friends who enlisted with him. ... Katczinsky, commonly called Kat, is Paul's best friend. ... Of all Paul's soldier friends, Kat is the most resourceful. ... Paul realizes that the enemy is no different from himself when he meets up with Duval in a shell hole. ...

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For instance, Jim Saddler and Paul Bãumer, the main characters from the two texts, were similar in many ways. ... Paul's army training chief, Colonel Himmelstoss, harasses him throughout the training course. ... Paul also had an affinity with nature and in particular, birds. ... Where Paul let his guard down to admire nature and freedom during which his freedom was taken away. ... Jim and Paul both demonstrated their reluctance to fight the war. ...

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In the novel, Paul notes that teachers and parents persuaded he and other young men to enlist in the war effort. It also angered Paul that he did not have anything to go back to after the war. ... As the novel continued, Paul realized that he had to accept the war. ... Paul was able to maintain sanity during war, but at the cost of his priceless youth and innocence. ... In the novel, Paul disaffiliated himself from his parents and others back at home. ...

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That is what the main character Paul goes through in the anti-war novel All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Remarque. ... The first example of foreshadowing is between Paul and Kemmerich's mom. She asks Paul if her son felt any pain before he died. ... Believing he is a liar she makes Paul swear that he shall never come back if he is lying. He agrees to her oath for which then Paul meets his demise in the very end of the novel. ...

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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 Paul and his comrades into "old folk" and "wild beasts". ... But, when Paul goes back home on leave, he soon feels out of place, and has none of the same interests as before the war. ... Paul only feels at home now on the front with his fellow soldiers, his friends who one by one die. "By the time Kat dies, Paul's best friend, Paul feels that his own life no longer has meaning," as said by William Mory. ... It cou...

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Why All quiet on the Western Front will be a superior movie With the film being narrated by Paul Baumer, such a war movie would have a most personal touch on audiences in much of an extensive way. ... Imagine taking a seat in the movie theatre and after all the previews and such, the screen is dark, with narration by Paul. ... Being in the German Army, Paul along with his lifelong school friends would embark on a journey with so many unexpected events to change their lives. ... Casting only could destroy this and many other powerful scenes of Paul's struggles, and flashbacks into t...

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An example of Paul hiding during an attack shows his fear of death. " I lie huddled in a large shell-hole, my legs in the water up to the belly. ... During one scene, under a heavy attack Paul sees a petrified Himmelstoss who is crouching in a corner. ... Paul describes this during a front line attack. ... Paul believes they have no business fighting the war, for they are merely easy targets for the opponents. ... Paul feels emotion, and fails to be a hero for he feels compassion. " We de not fight, we defend ourselves against annihilation." ...

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Remarque parallels this downward spiral within the actions and emotions of Paul Baumer, the novel's narrator and protagonist. ... He is no longer Paul - or even a German, for that matter - he is simply a soldier. ... Remarque was clear in expressing the catalyst for Paul's arrival to the front lines: Kantorek. ... Paul especially became more distressed and disillusioned by the war as each of his friends died. ... Paul's face seemed calm, "as though almost glad the end had come- (Page 296). ...

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Nationalism is what gets Paul and the others to join the army. ... Paul was the last one of his friends to survive which means he saw the most and was the most effected by the war. If you asked Paul about the war he could not give a straight answer without bringing up to much of the bad memories. ... At the end of the book even though he out lasted everyone he went to the war with Paul died. ... The time that the report was issued is the same time that Paul was killed. ...

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When Paul's military chief orders Paul and the soldiers to charge, Paul describes his mixed feelings of resentment towards death itself: "We have become wild beasts [...] ... Paul's cold-hearted and unrelentless tone portrays how cruel and inhumane he has become. Paul describes his animalistic instincts while on the battlefield, and visualizes nothing but the dangers and brutality of the war. ... Paul experiences these effects as he travels back to his home. ... Before the war, Paul was unfamiliar with the horrors and hardships of war, and easily connected to modern society. ...

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Paul's teacher, a trusted adult, lies to Paul and his class, like much of the youth who enter war. ... " In the New York Times, Paul Krugman reveals the reasons that explain why we fight wars. ... Interestingly, Paul personifies war to a disease. ... Therefore, Paul demonstrates in this passage that he fights because he fears the fateful outcome. This motive to fight contradicts Paul's original reason to fight for patriotism and honor. ...

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Early in the novel, Remarque gives the reader the impression that the soldiers from Paul's troop are everyday teenagers, that what happened to them could have happened to anybody at the time. ... Paul finds that this is not the case when he discovers a French Printer, Gerard Duval, lying next to him in a shell hole. Paul cannot bring himself to kill the Frenchman, "(Quote)" Remarque used detailed, uncensored descriptions in his 5 strong examples of the horror and senselessness of war. ...

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Paul wonders if the War did end what he will do. ... Paul returns and goes to battle. ... Paul feels awful for hurting this man. ... The next battle injures Paul and Kropp. ... And in October 1918, Paul is killed. ...

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The story is told by Paul Baumer, a German soldier during World War I. ... Finally she does speak to him and asks, "Was it very bad out there, Paul?" ... Paul decides to use words that are false because he does not want his mother to have to hear these awful things but Paul creates separation between his mother and himself. ... During the course of his leave, Paul also sees his father. ... Paul is horrified at his action. ...

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The radical suffrage was call the National Woman's Party (NWP) and was headed by Alice Paul. ... Alice Paul started the National Woman's Party (NWP), after returning from working on woman's suffrage in Britain. ... Paul did not have the patients to fight a state-to-state battle for suffrage like the NAWSA. Paul want directly to Washington DC in order to get a federal amendment. ... Paul and members of the NWP where jailed and want on hunger strikes in protest. ...

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This is a very common misconception that Remarque attempts to rid the reader of very early when in the first chapter, Pauls good friend Kemmerich has his leg amputated from a bullet and then dies a painfully slow death with Paul at his side. ... This is one of a great number of battle scenes that Paul and his comrades encounter throughout the book. The soldiers are even sometimes wakened in the middle of the night to unexpected attacks as in the one explained by Paul, We wake up in the middle of the night. ... In Pauls case, he enlisted with some of his classmates, but the bond they were fo...

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Each being a promising representative of a lost generation of young men, the respective protagonists of 'All Quiet On the Western Front' and 'Fly Away Peter', Paul and Jim, are both swept up in the celebratory attitudes of the people around them as they prepare for war. ... Paul likewise casts aside his future as a promising writer, another Goethe or Schiller according to Professor Kantorek, his mother observing "Oh Paul. ... Even though they are victims of their naivety, it illustrates that both Jim and Paul are courageous enough to set aside their own ambitions and even s...

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