Brotherhood In Ww1

War has many hardships from death to missing family. Soldiers during this time need people to get through the hardships together. Soldiers with their fellow soldiers create a relationship with each other greater than a friendship, almost like love. It’s called brotherhood. A soldier’s brothers are people they can spend time with not during combat. They are there for each other when no one else is. This benefits the soldiers because their brothers they make memories with and they make each other feel better. The bonds created in the war affect soldiers because during the war the create a brotherhood with their fellow soldiers and create a bond stronger than friendship that helps them through the war. The Brotherhood created by soldiers effects

You decide for yourself to pull the trigger”. This quote shows how Timothy in this situation cared about his men getting killed and didn’t want it to happen so he took a risk by firing at civilians to keep his men alive. Following this, a similar quote by Sebastian Junger talks about how during a fight the “death” of one soldier affects another. He says, “The worst thing that happened to him in Afghanistan was one of his men was hit in the head with a bullet in the helmet, knocked him over. They thought he was dead. It was in the middle of a huge firefight. No one could deal with it, and a minute later, Kyle Steiner sat back up from the dead, as it were, because he'd come back to consciousness…. "Steiner's been hit in the head. Steiner's dead." And he was thinking, "I'm not dead." And he sat up.And Brendan realized after that that he could not protect his men, and that was the only time he cried in Afghanistan, was realizing that. That's brotherhood.” In this context, it shows how when one soldier was “dead” but he “came back to life”. The leader in this quote became heartbroken at this because he realized that he couldn’t keep his men protected. Lastly in All Quiet On the Western Front Paul Baumer shows his

In All quiet on the western front Paul and Kat create a relationship known as brotherhood, they are there for each other at all times. Also this brotherhood relationship is a bond stronger than a regular friendship. In all quiet on the western front they represent this perfectly with Paul and Kat. It says, “We sit opposite one another, Kat and I, two soldiers in shabby coats, cooking a goose in the middle of the night. We don't talk much, but I believe we have a more complete communion with one another than even lovers have. We are two men, two minute sparks of life; outside is the night and the circle of death. We sit on the edge of it crouching in danger, the grease drips from our hands, in our hearts we are close to one another…What does he know of me or I of him? formerly we should not have had a single thought in common--now we sit with a goose between us and feel in unison, are so intimate that we do not even speak.”(ch5). This quote illuminates that the relationship created between Kat and Paul is like no other. They have everything alike and help one another when they need it. This relationship is stronger than friendship and is brotherhood. Also in How to Tell a True War Story one man by the name of Rat Kiley saw his best friend get killed. Rat wrote to his best friends sister