What Are The Major Changes In All Quiet On The Western Front

In “Soldiers Home” and All Quiet on the Western Front, both Harold and Paul mature from friendly, well-adjusted children to lonely, disconnected adults who have trouble function in society due to their experiences in war, this created major changes to the ways they lived. Before Harold and Paul went to war they were well-adjusted teenagers, who had goals and wanted to succeed in life. Krebs as a kid was a normal teenage boy. “ Before Krebs went away to the war he had never been allowed to drive the family motor car” (Hemingway 134). He was not allowed to use the family car. The familial relationship between father and son shows how innocent he was before he went to war. When Paul was just a kid he “knew nothing about the war, we had been

Before the war Paul was innocent. He knew none of war and was just a kid who had never experienced anything bad. War can effect one in a way that can never be changed. Due to how they used to be the war has changed them so much that they will never be friendly, well-adjusted children again. Not just war has created major effects on the way people live it also somewhat belongs to the person themselves. In “Soldiers Home” Paul used to never be able to take out the family car even when he wanted to. When his mother says says, “Yes. Your father has felt for some time that you should be able to take the car out in the evenings whenever you wished but we only talked it over last night”(Hemingway 139). His mother is providing and opertunuty for him to get a job and girlfriend. This is a major turning point showing how his father and mother are trying to help him change but the war has had too much of an effect on his life. In contrast in All Quiet on the Western Front Paul says, “When my mother says to me "dear

As Paul is talking he says, “And men will not understand us – for the generation that grew up before us, though it has passed these years with us here, already had a home and a calling; now it will return to its old occupations, and the war will be forgotten – and the generation that has grown up after us will be strange to us and push us aside. We will be superfluous even to ourselves, we will grow older, a few will adapt themselves, some others will merely submit, and most will be bewildered; – the years will pass by and in the end we shall fall into ruin”(Remarque 190). Paul talks about how generation ofter generation with push one aside after the other, and the outcome will always be the same. He also states that they will never be able t return to their old lives. He states that war was the only thing they new and they could never be a normal human in society. The war has traumatized anybody who was brave enough to join and made them think about the reason to