Summary Of All Quiet On The Western Front

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All Quiet on the Western Front began with one school teacher, Kantorek, who convinced Baumer and his friends to join the war. In the result of joining the war, Paul Baumer visits his childhood friend, Franz Kemmerich with an amputated leg. When Franz dies that night Paul realizes that war can take anyone’s life. Men are being sent to the front. On the way to the front, they are constantly being bombarded and are running out of food and water supplies. Haie Westhus, Paul’s friend, dies from getting hit in the back on the battlefield. After this trench warfare, there were only 32 people left. They give Paul 17 days of leave. He visits his mother, and finds out she has cancer. He regrets visiting home, because now he could only worry about his