Character Analysis: All Quiet On The Western Front

It was now the sunday morning of December 7, 1941, where many military personnel had a time of leisure. Many of them either were still sleeping, in halls eating breakfast, or getting ready for church. I who had been in the mess hall having breakfast sat with a group of men, enjoying a warm bowl of oatmeal and coffee. As I took a sip of coffee I felt all my muscles awaken and gain strength ready for what this day would bring me. It was just another day of work, or that is what we all thought. The hall was full of cheerful men laughing, talking, and eating. All of a sudden we heard the sounds of planes racing through the thick air, and the crowd of people grew silent. I looked around as everyones faces grew with fear and confusion, as they ran outside to see what was going on.

The impact war has on society is one that changes life the way we know it permanently.

The main characters in this story would be: Albert Kropp, muller, Leer, Paul Baumer, Tjaden, and Stanislaus Katczinsky.

Experiences in war and the drastic change in everyday life from home versus in war can take a large toll on soldiers. One of the most significant impacts war has on soldiers is the detrimental cutting of ties between soldiers relations with their home lives once they return from war. In the book All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, several symbols including butterflies, potato pancakes, and books are used to express the cut ties between soldiers and their home lives.

World War one was a war of severe tribulation. resulting in over 50 million deaths, it was one of the deadliest conflicts in human history. Known as the “Western Front”, the border of Germany and France was the site to some of the bloodiest battles of the war. There are very few novels that truly exemplify the events that took place along this front. Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Displays important themes, imagery, and symbolism, that help show how this great war affected the soldiers, the countries involved and the world.

‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ by Erich Maria Remarque follows the voyage of the protagonist and narrator, Paul Baumer, who is a nineteen year old man fighting for the German army in the front lines in World War I. Baumer joins the war voluntarily with a group of friends after repeatedly listening to the patriotic speeches from their teacher. When the men first join they are innocent and young, but as the novel progresses they become old men in a young man’s body. Throughout the novel each character dramatically changes and loses their identity in different ways

World War I took a devastating toll, not only by dismantling numerous countries economically, but by crippling the millions of dutiful soldiers as well. These soldiers, devoid of any full understanding of the reason for this brutal war, destroyed their entire lives for the cause. All Quiet on the Western Front depicts the how World War I ultimately devastated Paul and his soldier friends, psychologically and physically.

He is still a boy, however, he is old enough to be in the military. He was chosen to be a doctor for the union. He scrambles across the field during the battle of Vicksburg. He is looking for the fallen soldiers who need a medic. He has already seen too much gore during this battle. Whenever he goes out looking for someone he never knows if he is going to be shot at. He knows that the Confederate army has a strategy where they shoot the doctors so the soldiers cannot go back into the battle. He had seen many horrors on the battlefield that he would never forget. One time during an amputation, he got so scared he froze up and could not help the other doctor. From that day forward, he no longer amputates the men in agony. Though he was always

The author presents a young soldier who come from a small village and wants to make a difference in his life.He against his mother’s will and join the army,but he doesn’t know the truth about war.He is very immature at first.

About a two years ago America had been dragged into the European conflict called the Great War. The war was like the one the world had never seen, and it war had claimed millions of lives and my brother had been drafted into military service. It had also caused many house wives to work in factories. As I got to 12th St. took a left and headed down Gorman Rd. Which was my least favorite house to deliver to because of the steep hill. I pedaled up the hills, my legs burning, and stopped on the side of the road just halfway up the hill. I wheezed and looked up the rising sun ‘Gotta hurry’ I sighed to myself. I sped up the hill, reached into my bag and threw the paper to the left. I felt the bag and smiled to myself, in the bag an extra newspaper. I smiled to myself and thanked my boss Gerald.

"Dulce et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori" War and an honorable death are portrayed as grand and exalted deeds throughout history, even though a war is a series of bloody conflicts that rack havoc on the human mind. WW1 is one of the prominent examples of this. Several philosophers and individuals have pointed out this fact and even published literary works about it. All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest cases of this because it accurately shows the emotions, living conditions, and hardships of the WW1 soldiers.

Going to war changes a man in many ways. Only the ones who have been to war can know what it is like and anyone who says differently is most definitely wrong. All soldiers, sailors and veterans know that once their time serving their country comes to an end things will never be the same and that fitting in will be nearly impossible. When Paul Baumer returned to his hometown of Duisburg Germany he experienced just that. Through paul's memories of before the war when he was still a normal citizen, you can clearly tell he has changed dramatically. When Paul comes home, he cannot even bring himself to talk about his experiences from the war. During his combat experience Paul must learn not to feel pain, compassion and not to mourn his lost and

After having been in combat during World War I, Erich Maria Remarque was determined to capture the worst horrors of the war in many of his fiction novels, including All Quiet on the Western Front. This novel focuses on the protagonist, Paul Bäumer, and his friends as they face physical and emotional challenges during World War I. As a result of volunteering for the war at eighteen, it seems that Paul’s only role model before the war was his professor in school, who later in the novel can be deemed hypocritical and misleading. His lack of a strong role model or mentor forces Paul to develop his own way in the world after he becomes a soldier. Paul displays qualities exhibited by an honorable role model in the way he continues doing what needs to be done and adapting to life as a German soldier in the midst of World War I, despite his doubts about the war and how his actions ultimately deteriorate him physically and emotionally; a condition which is prevalent in American society amongst

In the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich M. Remarque, the author depicts the life of a young German soldier fighting in the World War 1. Throughout the novel, Paul Bäumer, the narrator of the story, is challenged to overcome the brutality of war and the numerous deaths of his comrades. The character development of Paul contributes to the theme of comradeship as his relationship with other soldiers, his family, and his past self changes. Paul is a twenty year old soldier at the beginning of the book, who enlisted into the army with his classmates.

“Don’t worry Milliarde, things are moving along now.” He smiles at me. My brother is the only person left in the world who I let call me by my full name,