How Does The Impact Paul Go To The Front Chapter 9

The war also changed Paul by hampering his ability to communicate with the people on the home front. Paul learns that it is hard to communicate with them when he visits his hometown. He realizes that people have no clue how bad war really is especially his own mother. "Suddenly my mother seizes hold of my hand and asks falteringly: Was it very bad out there, Paul?(143)" He did not know what to say so he lied to her and said that it was not so bad. Paul could not believe said that. Of course the war was bad, anything is bad when people are dying. He sees that the gap between him and society is getting bigger especially with his mother. Also Paul has no way to describe his experiences, he can not put them into words because the experiences were so horrible

"A wounded soldier? I shout to him-no answer- must be dead." The dead body has fallen out the coffin and the coffin has been unearthed because of the shelling. Even the dead and buried cannot rest in peace during this war. This just adds to the horror of the situation Paul is in.

Paul has constructed more self confidence to speak the truth compared to his antecedent self. When Paul first meets Tino, Victor and Hernando, on page 108 he states “My stomach started to knot again.” This reveals that Paul is obviously terrified of them because he's the reason for their suspension. In Paul’s mind, if he tells the truth they will tear him apart in millions of pieces, which makes Paul refuse to speak the truth. Later, Paul finally had the courage to admit that he was the one who ratted them out, however Tino reacted surprisingly calm about it. Paul realizes that they are actually really great people, once you get to know them. After Paul took the truth off of his chest, their relationship

Considering the boys were only eighteen when they enlisted in the army they did not have a chance to experience life after high school. They had been cut off from life just as they were beginning to live it. Paul remembers that as a high school student, he wrote poetry. He now has no interest in, or time for, poetry, and his parents seem to him a cloudy and unreliable memory. Reminiscing about his home life upset him. Paul soon learned that he would receive a leave of seventeen days; fourteen days leave and three days for traveling. Paul also learns that he will not return to the front immediately after he is done with leave but to a camp for a training course. After Paul learns of his leave he says farewell to his fellow comrades. He begins to worry about if the men he has grown so fond of will still be there. Despite all of this Paul packs up and heads to the train station to leave for home. As the train approaches his hometown all the memories come flooding back to him. When Paul finally got to his parents house he realized his life will never be

what the young men are becoming. Then, in an attempt to regain himself when he goes

While on leave, Paul also visits his father and some of his father's friends, but does not wish to speak to them about the war. The men are "curious [about the war] in a way that [Paul finds] stupid and distressing." They try to imagine what war is like but they have never experienced it for themselves, so they cannot see the reality of it. When Paul tries to state his opinion, the men argue that "[he] sees only [his] general sector so [he is] not able to judge." These men believe they know more about the war and this makes Paul feel lost. He realizes that "they are different men here, men [he] can not understand..." and Paul wants to be back with those he can relate to, his fellow soldiers. Paul wishes he had never gone on leave because out there "[he] was a soldier, but [at home] he is nothing but an agony to himself." When Paul returns to the battlefield, he is excited to be with his comrades. When he sees his company, "[Paul] jumps up, pushes in amongst them, [his] eyes searching," until he finds his friends. It is then

Each chapter is divided up into one argument. These chapters include key pieces of information for the reader to get a better understanding about the war and the affect it had on the nation. Through evidence and accounts from people in the war, Faust shows how and why the country changed on both the government and the citizen front. For the government, the war showed them the flaws in their soldier responsibilities. Because of the war the government changed many different policies to deal with death, created national cemeteries, implemented better identification and numbering systems, as well as worked out different programs to take care of the soldier’s families.

World War II is an important key point in history that addresses to young adolescents. The novel, T4 is based on a true story, in which the author, Ann Clare LeZotte is portraying a novel that is based on the theme of survival. It appears to be that the author’s argument in writing this novel is to simply maintain awareness of the past. Generally speaking, a story about survival is a difficult genre for young readers, “The majority of war stories for children are about World War II and the Holocaust.” (Huck 482) The reason war stories are mainly about World War II and the Holocaust is because it was the most recent, largest, and horrifying war during the twentieth century in Europe. Our textbook also states that these historical novels help children experience the past. Meaning, that it is important for a child to learn about the past including all the wars, conflicts, sufferings, and great happiness that had occurred so they can apply that to the present and to the future.

Paul realizes that he has no relation to his civillian life when he returns to him hometown during his leave. This goes to show that the war had irreversable damaging effects on the young men and they could not connect with their families or previous lives the same

Evidence of the dehumanizing effects of war is revealed even in the first chapter. Henry, a universal symbol of the everyman in the novel, questions his

His writing style can be broken into several aspects: themes, paragraph lengths, symbols, context,characterisation, etc. Chapters 1 to 3 may or may not have the same aspects compared to chapter 4. All four chapters had a casualty or an 'injured' that Paul has been acquainted with, e.g, Kemmerich, Joseph Behm,half of Pauls company,the horses,etc . This is a motiff, representing death and gore. As each character gets picked off, it shows how useless it is to become friends with soldiers, because you won't know who is going to die and who was going to survive. Becoming emotionally attached to a comrade and seeing him die in front of your eyes causes serious trauma, leading to 'post traumatic stress disorder'(PTSD), detachment from emotions and

There are many external conflicts throughout the story. Each of the main characters have their own conflicts that help to shape the story. The first one would be the draft. Two of the characters affected by the draft were Anna Sorensen who was living a carefree life singing opera with her boyfriend Nikolaus Sprink when it was announced that Germany had declared war and Nikolaus was being drafted. Young brothers Jonathan and William are told that they have both been drafted into the war as well. Although the two boys are excited about it at first, they soon get a rude awakening when William is shot and killed in the line of fire. The priest Palmer is chastised by his sanctimonious bishop for his desires to stay in the war environment with the soldiers instead of going back home to be with his church.

Sherriff and Peter Whelan developed the protagonists in their plays to reflect the impact the war had, not just on the world, but also on the individuals involved in war. May Hassle and Dennis Stanhope were clearly affected greatly by war; May, by what the war took from her, Tom; and Stanhope, by what the war gave him.

Throughout the war most people lost hope and suffered because of it, nevertheless, the individuals who stayed true to themselves were constantly much happier than those who didn’t. I truly believe one of the most important themes from this book represents the necessity of acknowledging and standing up for what you believe in, because everybody needs something driving them to prosper and survive. Frau Elena shows how many people will try to hinder your road to success by telling Werner, “They’ll say you’re too little, Werner, that you’re from nowhere, and you shouldn’t dream big. (25)” Werner who is a very dynamic character shows this with his constant change of attitude. This change of attitude becomes alarming when you register the strong

| Contrasting situations introduce the stark changes that the backdrop war causes to the characters in the story.