One of the major themes in Remarque's novel, All Quiet on the Western Front is comradeship. Paul, (the main character) experiences different kinds of comradeship: the comradeship of his regiment, and the comradeship of his adversaries. Paul deals with each type of comradeship differently and is changed personally by each experience. Remarque's use of comradeship throughout the book emphasizes how Paul conceived that in the outcome of the war all people are similar and equal.

Paul had many friends in his regiment, but his best friends were, Kat, Tjaden, and Kropp. These three men were there for Paul during the virtuous and wretched times. Kat, the most experienced, was the father figure to all the men. He proved to be amazing in many ways. In one scene the regiment is in a deserted town; they are tired and enter an old building to sleep, but they complain that they are hungry. Kat asked someone in the regiment, from the town, if they knew where there was any food. The man replied "No". So Kat went looking, when he returned, "He had two loaves of bread under his arm and a blood stained bag full of horse flesh in his hand."(39). Kat could find anything for his men; he found food

In the trench warfare Paul faces many challenges, at one moment Paul is out scouting and gets lost. He gets into a shell hole and decides to wait out the day there. Paul then begins to hear the enemy attack; there is water in the bottom of the shell hole and Paul lays in it like he is dead. The first wave of the enemy goes past, then the second. Then the enemy begins to retreat and then Paul faces the most difficult challenge he has to partake in hand-to-hand combat. "I do not think at all, I make no decisions, I strike madly at home, and feel only how the body suddenly convulses, then becomes limp, and collapses."(216). Paul had just stabbed a man to death; now the guilt begins to set in and Paul feels remorseful. "There are three stabs. My field dressing covers them"(220). Paul helps the enemy in order to save his own life. If the enemy were to find him and see that he had tried to save this man they would not kill him right away. Paul has to sit there with the dead man for a long time and then decides to write to the family. He finds the mans wallet and doesn't want to see the name of the human he killed but he does. The man's name is Gerard Duval, a printer; he has a wife and a child. This affects Paul very severely, in his heart, or his old self, he wants to write the man's family but deep down he knows he won't. He begins to loose his mind because he has to stay with the dead man for so long. If he was on the battlefield and stabbed the man it would have meant nothing to him. Since he saw the man

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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)