*All Quiet on the Western Front shows the change in attitudes of the men before and during the war. This novel is able to portray the overwhelming effects and power war has to deteriorate the human spirit. Starting out leaving you're home and family pr

d and ready to fight for you country, to ending up tired and scarred both physically and mentally beyond description.

*At the beginning of the novel nationalist feelings are present through pride of Paul and the rest of the boys. However at the end of the war it is apparent how pointless war really is.

*All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel that greatly helps in the understanding the effects war. The novel best shows the attitudes of the soldiers before the war and during the war. Before the war there are high morals and growing nationalist feel

gs. During the war however, the soldiers discover the trauma of war. They discover that it is a waste of time and their hopes and dreams of their life fly further and further away. The remains of Paul Baumer's company had moved behind the German front l

es for a short rest at the beginning of the novel. After Behm became Paul's first dead schoolmate, Paul viewed the older

ght. "He is in a panic; he is new to it too. But it makes me mad that the young recruits should be out there and he here." (P 131) The soldiers were being crushed and seeing things get destroyed, but because they had detached themselves they thought t

etrayed. " We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted. Life is short." (P 139) Views of death and becoming more comfortable with their destiny in the

dead are thrown from their graves. The destructive power is so great that even the fundamental differences between life and death become blurred.

ant to kill you...Why do they never tell us you are poor devils like us... and that you have the same fear of death...If we could just throw away these riffles and this uniform you could be my brother..." ( P. 223-224). The apparent change in views on

ight at the French girls' house. After he just felt worse and unfulfilled. "...we are crude and sorrowful and superficial-- I believe we are lost."(P123) When Paul realizes that we are all brothers, true mental struggle is seen. " Comrade, I did not

y were able to handle it. " We believe in such thi

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