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A 3 page paper which examines how Paul and his friends deal with war and how it affects them as seen in "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. No additional sources cited.
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concerning war and the affects that war has on those who are involved. In this story we have young innocent men who are eager to join up and enter into
WWI but as the story progresses they begin to see the horrors of war and find that war itself rips them apart inside, taking away their innocence and hope. The
following paper examines how the war affects Paul and his friends in Remarques novel "All Quiet on the Western Front."
All Quiet on the Western Front When this novel opens we are already set in the midst of the hardships of war as told by the narrator
Paul. In this chapter, the first chapter, we are also introduced to the past, when Paul and his friends and classmates first joined up to fight. They joined up with
grand notions of patriotism. They had ideals and they possessed a great deal of innocence, innocence that was to be lost. In this first chapter we see some of the
simple innocence gone: "The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been
able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy" (Remarque 11). One of the most powerful examples of the transformation, the stark contrast
between the present in relationship to their experiences as soldiers, and their past as innocent young men, comes on page 21 of the novel when Paul is describing the impending
death of a friend and the future retrieval of his boots. One character Muller, wants Kemmerichs boots. Kemmerich is dying from battle wounds and it is only a matter of
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