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Paul's Insanity In All Quiet On The Western Front

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Isaac Saldua #21 1-6-23 L.L.L. Writing Paul’s Insanity Have you ever felt like joining WWI and experience a lot of negative emotions such as insanity? Because if you do, you would relate to Paul in the book: All Quiet On The Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, the story follows the main character, Paul, on his journey in joining WWI to provide some money for his family and experience a once in a lifetime adventure. Sadly during his journey, Paul experiences many negative psychological problems. One of them being Insanity. He experienced insanity seeing the consequences of killing people during the war and experiencing the death of his comrades. A moment when Paul encountered his insanity is when he talked with …show more content…

Because of this Paul starts believing he will have to start doing things that may cost him his life in the war and may cost his mentality. “We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world, and we had to shoot it to pieces.”(pg 87). During the war, Paul loses so much, even control of himself that all he felt in the war was mostly insanity. Paul also experiences insanity by seeing so many of his comrades dying. “Besides us lies a fair-headed recruit in utter terror. He has buried his face in his hands, his helmet has fallen off. I fish hold of it and try to put it back on his head. He looks up, pushes the helmet off, and as a child creeps under my arm,”(pg61). Paul experiences death like it’s an everyday occurrence. This contributes to Paul’s insanity by giving him the thought that he might die very soon. Because how Paul and his comrades were so young. They started to see the world differently after joining the war to the point, they start to feel saddened in living their life. “We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world, and we had to shoot it to pieces.”,(pg 87). During the war, Paul loses so much, even control of himself that all he felt in the war was mostly

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