Kat and Paul were best friends and stayed together throughout the war. Paul did not know what to do when Kat died, he is at a loss of words, and wanted to hurt himself to stay with Kat and go wherever he went. He is courageous even though he witnessed an awful death. Although Paul is a good comrade and a smart decision maker, his best trait is that he is a brave
Kat’s pack leader leadership positively influences Paul and the men. Henceforth, leadership is very important in our everyday lives, let alone war. All Quiet on the Western Front displays many different kinds of leadership that influence its main characters, both positively and negatively. Kantorek displays hypocritical leadership through his push of having students sign up, but being a horrible soldier himself.
The trenches of World War I reveal the petrifying realities of war and the profound bond between soldiers in the chaos of battle. The All Quiet on the Western Front Novel follows the life of Paullistened to by Paulclimbed, a young man who has just joined the war as a German soldier fighting on the Western Front. Alongside him are his schoolmates and other soldiers going through similar hardships. Comradeship is shown strongly across All Quiet on the Western Front, which Erich Maria Remarque supports by showing the bond between classmates, the connection between enemy and friendly soldiers, and the struggles that these soldiers go through together. The strong bond between these men is shown throughout the novel in the early chapters, especially between Paul and his schoolmates.
Fighting in WWI on the Western Front was a brutal, bloody, and fatal battle where very few made it out alive. In “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque the most compelling complex character in my opinion was Katczinsky. The leader of Paul Baumer's group, Katczinsky, expressed great wisdom and had an alluring sixth sense while commanding the troops. Katczinsky was overwhelmingly accurate when it came to bombardments, he would tell the soldiers, “I can feel it in my bones” (Remarque 53).
I am going to be talking about a boy named joby whom just have entered the army by force. And of course because of his age he’s the heart of the army and not just because he’s the drummer boy. The authour of the story is ray bradbury and the story is called the drummer boy of shiloh. The boy joby feels lonley alot becasue he’s with alot of grown men who which he does not know any of them but the general who he encounters a conversation with. He soon will meet his destiny in war as he realizes he is the heart of the soldiers just like he was told an soon very soon will be leading them.
All Quiet on The Western Front shows the dependence the soldiers convey to one another. For example, Kat, “Kat appears I think I must have been dreaming he has two loaves of bread under his arm” (Remarque 39). Without Kat the soldiers would be starving all the soldiers realize this and appreciate him for being there. Kat has the ability to find food in the middle of nowhere. The soldiers also depend on each other for comfort.
In the autumn of 1918, after the bloodiest summer in Paul’s wartime experience, Paul is the only living member of his original group of classmates. The war continues to rage, but now that the United States has joined the Allies, Germany’s defeat is inevitable, only a matter of time. In light of the extreme privations suffered by both the German soldiers and the German people, it seems likely that if the war does not end soon, the German people will revolt against their leaders. After inhaling poison gas, Paul is given fourteen days of leave to recuperate. A wave of intense desire to return home seizes him, but he is frightened because he has no goals; were he to return home, he wouldn’t know what to do with himself.
Once the bloodshed of two nations falls into the hands of a soldier, that unfortunate man begins to fall apart as his subconscious thoughts change his perspective of the world around him. Throughout the classic war novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Erich Maria Remarque builds up a memorable story about survival in the eyes of a German soldier named Paul Baumer. By the influence of their unified government and their intimate relationship with grown-ups, Paul and his comrades are being taken to the front line to stand and fight for their war-torn country against France. The longer they stay at the front, the more conflicts they tend to face during the time of the Great War. As the novel progresses, Remarque transforms the German Soldiers' perspectives of their glorious fatherland and dear comrades to reveal the hidden side effects of war.
Throughout the story Paul shows that he cares about his comrades by protecting them from the dangers of war, and he also displays that he will guide them in war. Paul uses his skills of intelligence to guide his team in the trenches and at the front, and he passes on his knowledge and tricks of war to the new recruits. Not many soldiers have all of these qualities, which makes Paul stand out more than his comrades. Even today some men don't express the passion and leadership Paul shows in All Quiet on the Western Front, which brings up the fact that the war needs more men like Paul. To sum up, Paul is an honest and true man who will always be there for his comrades when needed, and he is a man the troops are proud to say is a patriotic
You might be wondering, “When do I stop, shake and scream.” Well all of these are typical reactions of people with post traumatic stress disorder also known as PTSD. This disorder is show in, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, in 1928. This story is a novel that takes place during World War One. Shellshock, as it was once known, is a physiological disorder which is normally caused by a person's exposure to horror, such as warfare activity which causes a person to reminisce older experiences.
All Quiet on The Western Front is a novel about growing up in the sense that the reader watches most characters, especially Paul, transform from young, patriotic school boys to shattered men destroyed by the war. Paul and his comrades face their obstacles together and never leave a man behind, but although they have the support of one another, the war still takes a severe mental toll on all the men. Paul enlists in the army with his school friends excited to fight for their country, but soon realises that war is nothing but horror, and forget what they are even fighting for. Throughout the war Paul has experienced so much terror that he can’t even begin to explain what war is like to his family, and finds that things he used to hold dearly
The images that left a presence in my mind was this constant theme of death. Death has unfortunately traumatized my childhood through various reasons, therefore causing myself to be quite pretentious. The moment that I had realized that death had created this large facade through the novel’s writing, it instantaneously reminded myself of those darker portions of my lifetime. Though this experience was upsetting for myself, it also created this oddity that I’ve pondered of throughout the novel. These soldiers deemed to amaze me.
The war novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque depicts one protagonist, Paul, as he undergoes a psychological transformation. Paul plays a role as a soldier fighting in World War I. His experiences during the war are not episodes the average person would simply experience. Alternatively, his experiences allow him to develop into a more sophisticated individual. Remarque illustrates these metamorphic experiences to expose his theme of the loss of not only people’s lives but also innocence and tranquility that occurs in war.
“An Argument that Abortion is Wrong” The debate over abortion has been going on for years, as this controversial topic has never been settled and never will be. It is due to the fact that people are entitled to their own opinions and beliefs, of whether or not abortion is permissible or impermissible. One view on abortion comes from the scholarly paper of “An Argument that Abortion is Wrong,” by Don Marquis. In this paper, Marquis attempts to show that abortion is morally impermissible by appeal to his account of the wrongfulness of killing, the “Future Like Ours” (FLO) account. With this account, abortion is impermissible due to the FLO account because life is meant for one to experience and value it, one cannot do so if they are prematurely
"Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy? If we threw away these rifles and uniforms you could be my brother just like Kat and Albert (Remarque 223)". Comradeship among soldiers is a major theme throughout the novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front" because the soldiers knew each other before the war, protected each other during combat, and can relate to one another without having to literally speak. This story 's theme shows comradeship because Paul and the other soldiers were in class together before joining the war. In the beginning of the novel Paul introduces his friends he went to school with before going to war with. "
