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All Quiet on the Western FrontGallipoli

ely ends his life. Baumers mother and Uncle Jack have a unique role in Paul and Archys story because they are the only other characters who truly connect life before and after joining the army. Since they do not participate in the war, Baumers mother and Uncle Jack do not change like Paul and Archys friends. In actuality, these characters are reminders of how Paul and Archys childhood was not awfully long ago.Thomas Hardys poem The Man He Killed can directly be applied to the comparison of Paul and Archy. In The Man He Killed, the speaker in the poem ponders over the idea of how alike he and his foe are. He concludes that, under different circumstances, his foe and he could be friends. But unfortunately, this was not the case because these two men were participating in a war that pitted each mans respectable country against one another. Paul and Archy share the same role in each of their respective stories. The role is a young man who joins the war for the wrong reason and then dies for no reason. Paul and Archy are capable of being the two characters in Hardys poem. Under the circumstances of World War I, these men are enemies. Yet, if it were not for the hostility of the feuding countries, one can reasonably assume that the two can conceivably be trusted companions. Hardy was correct in the sense that war makes potential friends into certain enemies....

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