All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Mariaremarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" is one of thegreatest novels on World War I that exists today. All Quiet on the Western Front was written in a first-person perspective inwhich one soldier, Paul Baumer, tells the story of what it is like to be a German Along with Baumer are his friends Behm, Kemmerich, Haie, Detering, Leer, Tjaden, Muller, Kropp, & Katczinsky. Behm is never really explained much of. At first, he does not want to join thearmy, but teasing and hounding from fellow classmates convince him to join. Kemmerich is one of the first to die, so the story never really involves himmuch. After being shot in the leg, the need for amputation arrives. Shortly after hisleg is amputated, a different infection is formed, and slowly kills him. Because ofKemmerich, the book is able to show how important material things are to those in Haie was a large man described by Baumer as a peat digger. Haie is one ofthe characters in which the book is able to explain some of the extreme and unusualthings that the soldiers did to keep occupied and not let the chains of boredom catch
He would make them all do humiliating things to shape them intobetter soldiers. This luck, however,did not last very long. When Kropp gets a fever he isscheduled to be dropped off at the next stop. That is until one nightBaumer and Leer get entrapped in a shell hole. The look of calm and serenity on his face proves that he welcomeddeath with open arms. The book describes his death as "his face had anexpression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come. After a short period, Baumer returns to the front and it isthe last time that Baumer and Kropp see of each other. After a few more weeks Paul and Kropp part, Paul going back to the war andKropp going home. The fragments that cut his hip also cutan artery and in a few minutes, Leer falls over and dies. Once there, Baumer and his buddies are taken under strict training byCorporal Himmelstoss. He is described as apeasant who thinks of nothing more than his farmland and his wife. Since no inhabitants were left they were ableto go through the houses to take and use whatever they wanted. Paul Baumer's death, no matter how disturbing, allowed him tofinally escape the torturing war that had taken the lives of so many of his friendsand companions. Being the last one ofBaumer's friends, Paul tries desperately to save him.
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