e these combatants experienced the real life threats such as poisonous gasses, rapid machine gun fire and a constant flurry of explosive shells, these were propelled into a New World of killing or being killed. They are fighting with animal like instincts and all their proper manners that they are raised with vanish. The new technology that came about in World War I drastically changed they way things were done. Technology started to change and as it changed it played a crucial role in World War I. As people were trapped in the cruelest battle, the men had to dodge the animosity of the powerful machine guns while escaping from the poisonous gasses. No one can out run a machine gun. Its ability to eliminate men by the dozens led to one stalemate after another. There were being built more compact, with more force and accuracy. Another more vicious form of death that came about during the war was the use of poisonous gases. This filled mens lungs up, which choked and burned them in an inhumane way. If you were not wounded physically, than you were wounded mentally. Two years of shells and bombs- a man wont peel that off as easy as a sock ( Remarque 87). The wounded soldier, Paul Baumer, not only sees himself as part of a lost generation, but also feels that way for everyone his age that is included in this horrific war. We agree that its the same for everyone; not only for us here, but everywhere, for everyone who is of our age; to some more and to other less. It is the common fate of our generation ( Remarque 87). The war ruined everyone for everything. These young men have lost their youth and their innocence. They can no longer experience the same feelings and memories the same way. In the trenches, they can not experience them at all. Remarque explains in the middle of chapter six (page 122), that even if our youth was given back to us, we would hardly know what to do with it. These kids who went off to war could no longer experience...
