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All quiet on the western front

Paul Baumer, a youthful soldier, to demonstrate how war is not the glamorous, idealistic scenario that many people make it out to be but the gory, inhumane, and inescapable experience that it truly is. In the beginning of the novel the young student was ambitious, but as time goes on Pauls attitude toward life completely changes. In the beginning, he felt that there was hope for him and that he could have a pleasant life after the war. The battles invasion of the serenity and holiness of the cemetery depicts the all invasiveness of war. Pauls attitude began to change soon after going home on leave when he realized that he no longer had any connections with his old community except for his school mates who also enlisted and eventually died in the army. Even the conditions at home were hopeless as illustrated in the moldy food, his fathers futile efforts to change the situation, and his mothers illness. The hopelessness of war is obvious to the reader and to Paul when Tjaden and Paul are severely injured while attempting to protect a town. They resist medical treatment due to the number of fatalities that result from amputation. They realized that death was almost inescapable if they allowed themselves to be treated in just any hospital. At the end of the novel, one of Pauls closest friends, Katczinsky has recently died due to a small splinter to the head as Paul was attempting to carry him to safety on one of the last days of battle. At this moment it is evident to the reader that because of the war this young man has lost everything that he once held including all of the members of his class and the ability to connect with the rest of the world. In October 1918, Paul even lost his most precious commodity - his life to a stray bullet on what the army pronounced to be still and quiet day on the entire front. It is ironic that the army considers only a few deaths to be a peaceful and quiet day. Death has become such apart of reality that ...

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