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Chapter Summary Of All Quiet On The Western Front

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Throughout All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul and some of his comrades wonder why they’re fighting a war that they have no relation to. Furthermore, that doesn’t give them a sabbatical for going home, even though they aspire to go home to their families. In the book, Paul and the other soldiers are taught that the country they are fighting against is their enemy, and whenever they are to approach any of the “enemies” they are to tranquilize them promptly. Just because you are fighting against a country that you believe is atrocious or corrupt, doesn’t mean that an individual on that side is in that manner. Nevertheless, a book should not be judged by a cover. In chapter 3, one of Paul’s comrades, Kropp states that war shouldn’t involve millions of uninvolved souls fighting the war for their country. Believing that generals and world leaders should fight against each other once and for all, not yanking people from their substantial lives just to be in a war that chances of survival. “Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers …show more content…

Therefore he used to be such a magnanimous person, clearly changes the reader’s point of Paul in chapter 9 when he kills the French soldier, Gerald Duval. “ I want to stop his mouth, stuff it with earth, stab him again, he must be quiet, he is betraying me; now at last I regain control of myself, but have suddenly become so feeble that I cannot any more lift my hand against him.” Earlier in the book, Paul wouldn’t have even had the urge to slaughter someone as quickly and fiercely as he did. However, Paul realizes that Gerald isn’t necessarily the enemy, in this case, individual people are not the enemies, the leaders are. Average citizens are not the cause of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, terrorists were but civilians are the one ones who have to pay for

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