The battlefield is stained with blood. Tommies are firing, bombs are dropping, and people are dieing too. Young men are making the ultimate sacrifice, needlessly, just to defend their country. After months of death, famine, and life in the shadows, even the toughest of men and the most cheerful of men can be flipped upside down. Many soldiers had come into this war with valor and pride for their country and their livelihoods but few soldiers made it out. Many of these soldiers’ values had dramatically changed during the war. Paranoia and death was as dangerous as the guns in the battlefield
Many soldiers in World War I enlisted in the Army to defend their countries and their families. The men in All Quiet on the Western Front were young and invulnerable, or so they thought. Many came in with a cheerful attitude towards life, and a loathing for death. Throughout this book, Paul changes his values and his views on life, until he is finally killed in battle. Through the book, he learns to accept death, and he acts differently to Kemmerich’s and Kat’s death, he changes his take on life and what happened, and he gets experienced. He becomes a veteran. As this book says, “It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who even tho
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He also seems to questions things a lot less and accept them more, such as Kat’s death(page 290) compared to Kemmerich’s death (page 32). He feels as if it is his job to make sure Kemmerich didn’t die in vain. Paul never thought of questioning Germany and the war when he was young and naïve, but Paul soon gains some insight from some Russian prisoners who when seen close up, raise an epiphany in him. He Changes his core values during the book, such as acceptance of death, more seriousness towards injury and death and his values or will to live. This can be interpreted by his happy attitude on page 7, where he says “To-day is wonderfully good”. He starts thinking of how he will have to explain the death to Kemmerich’s family and his mother (page 18). When Kemmerich is hurt, Paul tries to talk Kemmerich into believing that everything is fine and that he will be ok(page 30). This can be seen in Chapter 12, when he talks of being burned out and weary if he returns home (page 294). He also seems to have gotten a lot of real-life experience. When Kat dies, Paul gets a more realistic feeling. They are in good moods when almost half of their company died (pages 1-3). He also packs up Kemmerich’s things before visiting him, because “he will need them on the way back” (page 13). He thinks of flowers, meadows, girls, etc (page 33).
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