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All Quiet On The Western Front - Term Papers

All Quiet On The Western Front

The remains of Paul Baumer's company had moved behind the German front
lines for a short rest at the beginning of the novel. After Behm became
Paul's first dead schoolmate, Paul viewed the older generation bitterly,
particularly Kantorek, the teacher who convinced Paul and his classmates to
join the military, feeling alone and betrayed in the world that they had
left for him. Paul's generation felt empty and isolated from the rest of
the world due to the fact that they had never truly established any part of
themselves in civilian life. At boot camp, Himmelstoss abused Paul and his
friends, yet the harassment only brought them closer together and developed
a strong spirit amongst them. ...

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the members of Paul's unit, who were then only
mildly punished. During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul's unit were
killed. Paul was given leave and returned home only to find himself very
distant from his family as a result of the war. He left in agony knowing
that his youth was lost forever. Before returning to his unit, Paul spent
a little while at a military camp where he viewed a Russian prisoner of war
camp with severe starvation problems and again questioned the values that
he had grown up with contrasted to the values while fighting the war.
After Paul returned to his unit, they were sent to the front. During an
attack, Paul killed a French soldier. After discovering that this soldier
had a family, Paul was deeply shattered and vowed to prevent other such
wars. Paul's unit was assigned to guard a supply depot of an abandoned
village, but he and Kropp were soon wounded when trying to escape from the
village. Paul headed back to the front, only to engage in final ...

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Added: 10/16/2004 10:08:24 AM
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