Summary Of Paul Baumer's Life On The Western Front

Paul Bäumer is a German, young boy, who, together with his classmates, enlists for the army to fight in the Great War. Full of enthusiasm and adventurous thoughts, they arrive at the front, but then are faced with the horrific and soul-destroying war. One by one the classmates are fall in action…

In “All quiet on the western front” by Erich Maria Remarque, the main character is Paul Baumer. He is a survivor in the world war I.

Germany betrayed Paul Baumer and his comrades. All Quiet on the Western Front is told from the perspective of Paul Baumer, an enlistee in the German army during World War One. He enlisted as a teenager after a push from his schoolteacher to fight for his country. Paul and his fellow comrades experience the horrors of war as they are told to kill and lay down their lives for their country. Paul goes through battles, injuries, the loss of friends and comrades, and he inevitably loses his life.

“We have lost all feeling for one another. We can hardly control ourselves when our hunted glance lights on the form of some other man. We are insensible, dead men, who through some trick, some dreadful magic, are still able to run” (Remarque 115). This quote shows the thoughts that run through Paul Baumer’s mind during a long battle. The quote demonstrates the stripped sense of humanity and self-control the soldiers have, and the animalistic nature the soldiers have developed. Throughout the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Baumer and the Second Company become isolated from their humanity, their childhood, and other humans.

Paul Bäumer (BOY-muhr) The sensitive twenty-year-old narrator of the novel, who has written poems and a play entitled "Saul." Paul reaches manhood during three years' service as a soldier in the Second Company of the German army during World War I. His loss of innocence during the cataclysm is the focus of the author's antiwar sentiment.

Taking place in World War I, the story of Paul Baumer and his group of friends closely bonded while fighting for the German army is related from the perspective of Paul himself. The group of friends go through a series of bombings and attacks from the opposing army from France. One by one each of the members of the group dies during battle and while they fight, the effect the war has had on them is clear. In Erich Maria Remarque’s critically acclaimed novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the author presents the demise of many soldiers, especially Paul Baumer in order to display the ruinous effect that war has on the soldiers that fight in it.

At one point during the story, Paul Baumer returns home for a short leave from the front line. While at home he is faced with old faces, some who want only to hear of the war. Those who want to hear the war and stories constantly put a strain on Paul’s psyche. He describes in several occasions that when the conversation of war came up he would only others funny stories but nothing of his hardship. Some, like his mother, asked about the conditions of the front line. Paul is unable to describe world of the front line because he is afraid once the conversation starts he will be unable to control his feelings. “I am afraid they [words] might then become gigantic and I be no longer able to master them” (Remarque, 165). This is paramount to the life a soldier, he must be able to control his emotions in order to survive. In other circumstances, the older men wish to know of the progress of the war. In one part of the story, a few elderly gentlemen were speaking of strategy and how to win the war with Paul. The older men do not appear to be very sympathetic to Paul’s struggles and ask him sensitive questions. Paul, though angry, does not react to their prying. At one point one of the men talks of destroying the “froggies” and “johnnies”, in reference to the French and English soldiers, and remarks that Paul and the army should “shove ahead a bit out there with your

In Remarque’s book, the main character, Paul Baümer and his comrades all have a bitter feeling towards their once

The book I read about a soldier named Paul Bäumer who joined German army due to the World War I. His class was rearranged to the different places and Paul was sent to the Western front with his friends: Leer, Müller, Kropp and a lot of another characters. During he stay at the front he met Kat(Stanislaus). Kat was the oldest soldier with big experience in the war and he became a mentor of Paul. While fighting, Bäumer and his comrades have to engage in frequent battles and endure insidious conditions of the war.

1. Paul Baumer and his friends, as German soldiers in World War I, collectively fight any who oppose the German army. However, Corporal Himmelstoss is an enemy whose transgressions are taken far more personally by Paul and his friends. Himmelstoss often torments Paul and his comrades for the sake of doing so, as he is power-driven and tries to exert control over others whenever he can. It is never stated that the soldiers hate or even dislike the enemies that they fight daily on the battlefield; yet they disfavor Himmelstoss openly. In addition, they all begin to harbor distaste for their former teacher, Kantorek, for encouraging them to join the army. All of the men also struggle against the knowledge that

The novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, is story of the fictional character Paul Baumer and his troop Troop 9 as they battle in World War I on the Western Front for Germany. This novel differs from most war novels in that it does not portray the men as valiant soldiers protecting their country. The way that the story is told strips away the romanticized view warfare and portrays the raw emotions that come with being on the front lines of a battle. As both Paul Baumer’s life and the battle progress, Paul’s values, along with those of the other soldiers, evolve until they culminate in Baumer’s own passing.

The novel is written in the perspective of Paul Baumer, who directly experiences the effects of authority figures. For example, the boys are convinced against their better judgement to enlist in war by their school teacher, Kantorek. Although the young boys hesitate to join, Kantorek's position of authority influences the men to volunteer. Ironically, one

The adventure began on July 28th, 1914 and Paul Baumer is five miles behind a French front. As the First World War begins, the soldiers believe it is honorable to join but as they spend more time in war and gain experience they realize war is a lot different from what they had in mind. The soldiers become more hopeless as the days and years pass. The life in the trenches was risky, and every day could be the soldiers last. “I am so alone and so without hope that I can confront them without fear” (Remarque 295). This quotation shows how Paul Baumer has lost all his hope, and desire. The soldiers no longer fight for their country, they do not desire to make it out alive, the First World War has made them so miserable, and so hopeless they have lost feelings for everything. Everyone except for Paul Baumer has died from his class. It is the beautiful season of autumn, and it starts by

When someone thinks of war, it is usually the uniform, the pride, that comes to mind. The aftermath of war, to those who do not know much about it, will come as a surprise. In the movie, All Quiet on the Western Front, the character, Paul Baumer, enters the war as an innocent person; with no idea on the effects, it may have on him. In the beginning of the movie Paul is shown as an innocent eighteen-year-old teenage boy who likes to draw and read. It is when he enters military training that his innocence starts to wither away. During military training, Paul no longer does what he likes to do, and only spends his time training on how to become a good German soldier. During training, Paul is tortured by his training officer, Corporal Himmelstoss.

     “I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another (263).” Powerful changes result from horrifying experiences. Paul Baumer, the protagonists of Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front utters these words signifying the loss of his humanity and the reduction to a numbed creature, devoid of emotion. Paul’s character originates in the novel as a young adult, out for an adventure, and eager to serve his country. He never realizes the terrible pressures that war