All Quiet on the Western Front taught me many new lessons about the war. The book had showed everything from good to bad. I found the book very interesting and a good resource to learn more about the war. Paul had been the longest soldier who had fought out of his group. Paul had overcome many challenges and had experienced many different events. Paul was a young soldier who did not have much to go back home to besides his family, but many other soldiers had families of their own. We saw Paul go through many challenges if it being watching his friend die, going back home, or killing his enemy. Paul was by his friends side the whole time that he was dieing. Paul friend Kemmerich had got his foot amputated and had died from all the bleeding and pain. In the novel we saw at the hospital how poorly the patients got treated and how quickly they got kicked out. During the war I had imagined them being treated better than what they had been treated in hospitals. Kemmerich had a lot of pain and Paul had sat by him the whole time in the hospital. Kemmerich had believed that he would be able to still fight even though he was in a lot of pain. Paul had sat with him until he had died. …show more content…
Everyone in the town kept asking Paul about the war. The mayor and Paul dad had kept asking him questions, and Paul was getting angry with his dad and the mayor, because he did not want to talk about it. Paul had also really missed his friends and was worried about them and hoped they would be okay when Paul had returned. I did not realize that Paul did not like that subject to be brought up, because in his head he sees many terrible scenes going on and many bombs being very close to him. Paul wanted to spend time with his mom, because he knew that she would be dying soon of cancer. Paul mom had never questioned Paul about the war she had left him alone and talk about what he wanted to talk
He cared for him and attempted to make him feel comfortable. Paul made himself aware of the man's humanity and he apologizes to the dead soldier. 2- We always realize something big in life when it's way too late and it has already affected our life. Pg 833 #3-6
A large majority of the soldiers fighting experience a psychological change that causes them to lose their emotions. He eventually gets wounded and returns home on leave, but the dehumanization of war shows damage has been done - Paul decided to return to the front early when he can’t live the way he used to in his hometown. As for his attitude towards his comrades, he shows his insensitivity when Kemmerich is dying and wants his boots. Kat is the only close friend Paul has left, but he is hit in the back of the head by piece of a bomb and dies. Paul’s attitude changes once again, where this time he no longer cares if he lives or
Paul was forced to join the army when he was young. Paul was almost shot down in the army by a gun. War brought problems to Paul's family by money wise because there was no money. Young Paul was a wise young man. Paul was always watching his dad do metal work.
After earlier in this novel Paul being one of the men to comfort
I was a soldier, and now I am nothing but an agony for myself, for my mother, for everything that is so comfortless and without end. I ought never to have come on leave. " Paul cannot connect with his mother, father, or any of his personal possessions because he realizes that he is not the same person. He has to live in fear of the dangers of war, not of the superficial worries of his past. He has formed a new family, and eventually as all his friends die, he becomes satisfied with his own impending death because he knows that although his entire time has been filled with struggles, he will no longer have to fight and will be at peace.
Throughout the story Paul shows that he cares about his comrades by protecting them from the dangers of war, and he also displays that he will guide them in war. Paul uses his skills of intelligence to guide his team in the trenches and at the front, and he passes on his knowledge and tricks of war to the new recruits. Not many soldiers have all of these qualities, which makes Paul stand out more than his comrades. Even today some men don't express the passion and leadership Paul shows in All Quiet on the Western Front, which brings up the fact that the war needs more men like Paul. To sum up, Paul is an honest and true man who will always be there for his comrades when needed, and he is a man the troops are proud to say is a patriotic
He had joined the war in his young age and he doesn’t have much background comparing to the older generations. Paul is used to the front line life and he feels everything was strange to him when he went home for his 16 days vacation. He states, “ Still I do no give up hope. I do not indeed, go to my room any more, but comfort myself with the thought that a few days are not enough to judge by. Afterwards--later on--there is plenty of time for that.”
Paul and all of his friends died. Death was a very real thing during the war. All the time comrades were dying. “Under the skin the life no longer pulses, it has already pressed out to the boundaries of the body. Death is working through from within.
In addition, Paul was injured in the book and goes home and stays with her family while he recovers. He is no longer able to relate to his family, since it is very difficult to think and have emotions and at the same time with much death all around him in the war. There is much talk of how he and his friends do not think about deep things, but just think about eating and silly things. His father and people over all his people want me to tell them stories of war and hate Paul because their experiences are horrible. Paul has just returned to the fight and basically everyone in the book is wounded and dies.
When a man has seen so many dead he cannot understand any longer why there should be so much anguish over a single individual" (181). Knowing the unlikely chance of staying alive in war, Paul, unlike Kemmerich 's mom, knows how easy being killed is. Although her reaction appears over-the-top, she probably believes that she is acting
In chapter 9 Paul has ruptured to the front, and finds Kat, Müller, Tjaden, and Kropp are still alive and are ok. Paul and his friends think that if thirty people would have said “no” the war wouldn’t have happened and they would have been there. Paul also volunteers to go into No Man’s Land to gather info about the enemy. Paul gets lost on his way back and finds shelter in a shell hole, after a while a soldier go into the same hole and Paul is forced to kill him. It was to bright outside for Paul to make his way back to camp so is has to stay there until night with the dead body.
Paul is happy to be home but is frustrated by all of the questions. He is on leave and would prefer to not talk about the pain and suffering of the war. Paul is struggling with feeling at home as he has spent so much time away, and has already had close friends die and seen horrific things, why would he want to relive that? Especially because it is his mother, he doesn't want to explain the awful parts of the war. He then decides to lie to her.
Kat and Paul were best friends and stayed together throughout the war. Paul did not know what to do when Kat died, he is at a loss of words, and wanted to hurt himself to stay with Kat and go wherever he went. He is courageous even though he witnessed an awful death. Although Paul is a good comrade and a smart decision maker, his best trait is that he is a brave
Paul experiences this deep sorrow and depression because he feels that he has been completely robbed of his sentiment. Furthermore, Paul feels that because of war’s ability to manipulate his feelings into becoming almost static, he has no choice but to have self control and bottle up his emotions. This emphasizes the fact that war causes pain by twisting a soldiers emotions so they fall into a deep despair and begin to crumble, until eventually they are left with nothing but a skeleton of what they once were. Moreover, In the same conversation with his mother, Paul wishes to be taken back in time so he can escape the anguish he currently feels: “Ah! Mother, Mother!
Paul learns that war obtains the capability to demolish society. War destroys so many innocent people’s lives, whether it kills innocent human beings or shatters the innocence of those who fight in