Paul believes that he was tricked into joining the army and fighting in the war. This makes him very bitter towards the people who lied to him. This is why he lost his respect and trust towards the society. Teachers and parents were the big catalysts for the kids to join the army. They used words to convince the young men to enlist. Teachers would talk to the students like they were friends, bu

alizes that society tricks you into doing what they want, but now the war has opened his eyes.

Throughout the novel, Paul goes through a period of enlightenment, which makes him realize that his bond of comradeship with his fellow soldiers is all that he has left. The society that had raised him turned their backs on him. He had no way to communicate with the people on the home front. He could not even talk to his own mother with out feeling distant and alone. Paul realized this and that is why he was glad that he was died soon after the war because he had nothing to live for and no one to live with in his life of loneliness.

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strong his bond really is with the other soldiers. During one of his patrols one night, Paul gets pinned down in a shell hole. He becomes very scared and starts to panic. The only thing that calmed him down was the voices of his fellow soldiers. Paul describes it best, "At once a new warmth flows through me. These voices, theses quiet words, these footsteps in the trench behind me recall me at a bound from the terrible loneliness and fear o

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Approximate Word count = 780
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)