All Quite On The Western Front

A detailed Summary of All Quite On The Western Front

The remains of Paul Baumer's company had moved behind the German front lines for a short

rest at the beginning of the novel. After Behm became Paul's first dead schoolmate, Paul viewed the

older generation bitterly, particularly Kantorek, the teacher who convinced Paul and his classmates to

join the military, feeling alone and betrayed in the world that they had left for him. Paul's generation

felt empty and isolated from the rest of the world due to the fact that they had never truly established

any part of themselves in civilian life. At boot camp, Himmelstoss abused Paul and his friends, yet the harassment only brought them closer together and developed a strong spirit amongst them. Katczinsky,

or Kat, was soon shown to be a master scavenger, being able to provide the group with food or virtually anything else; on this basis Paul and him grew quite close. Paul's unit was assigned to lay barbed wire

on the front line, and a sudden shelling resulted in the severe wounding of a recruit that Paul had

comforted earlier. Paul and Kat again strongly questioned the War. After Paul's company were returned

to the huts behind the lines, Himmelstoss appeared and was insulted by some of th

result of the war. He left in agony knowing that his youth was lost forever. Before returning to his unit, Paul spent a little while at a military camp where he viewed a Russian prisoner of war camp with

This novel was written very well. The plot was fast paced and the incredibly realistic war depiction's kept my attention alone. Yet merged with the physical activity in this book was an extraordinary depth of the emotional impacts of the war upon the soldiers. I did not find the characters to be superficial in any way. Their physical actions and mental ideals coincided very closely. The emotional state of characters developed very genuinely throughout their endeavors; this realism forced me to look at the purpose of war more closely and examine its results on the militia. Foremost, I have gained a multitude of new perceptions, some of which make a great deal of sense, from the vividly portrayed physical results of war and the depth in which the dynamic emotions of the soldiers, particularly Paul, were presented. This book has simply given me new views of war. It was an incredible work to read.

Numerous times Paul found his unit to be separated from the rest of the world. He found no belonging

to civilization but instead a brotherhood amongst his comrades in the military. The constant questioning

whom he had comforted earlier, Paul went home finding that war had isolated him from his family

become his family. The mental anguish was again vividly displayed after Paul killed a French soldier; discovering that the soldier had a family, Paul slipped into a dee

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Category: English