Character Analysis: All Quiet On The Western Front

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In All Quiet on the Western front, we are brought to the narrator of this reading, Paul Baumer. Paul Baumer is known as a protagonist someone who is compassionate and sensitive for a 19 year old young man who is battling in the war. Paul Baumer shows himself being compassionate towards his comrades in many different scenarios. For starters when Kemmerich is in the hospital and he is injured Paul goes with him and is trying to help him stay calm in his situation. Kemmerich is concerned that he is going to die so he won't make it back home and Paul continues to tell him not to “talk rubbish; Franz, in a couple of days you’ll see for yourself. What is it anyway--an amputated leg? Here they patch up far worse things than that (Remarque 27).”