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This is the place that has rats, muddy water, lice, and cockroaches.
What are the trenches?
Who was Ginger?
The scene when Paul and Kat were cooking and eating the goose is an example of this theme.
What is comradery?
She eventually dies of cancer.
Who was Paul's mother?
It's the POV in which the novel is told.
What is 1st-person POV?
This place has barbed wire, mounds of dirt, shell holes, and no vegetation.
What is no-man's land?
Before the war, he was a postal character.
Who was Himmelstoss?
This overly intense pride in his country motivated Kantorek to encourage his students to enlist.
What are the dangers of nationalism?
Gangrene has infected his leg.
Who was Kemmerich?
He's the soldier who always manages to find food.
Who is Kat?
This is the place where Paul has conversations with the headmaster and his older German teacher.
What is the beer garden?
He was the last student from Paul's class to enlist and he was the first to be killed; his first injury was to be shot in the eyes.
Who was Joseph Behm?
Hunger, cold, disease, trauma, injury, and death are examples of this theme.
What are the effects of the trenches on the soldiers?
He dies on the last page of the novel.
Who is Paul Baumer?
It's the literary genre of this novel: fiction or nonfiction.
What is fiction?
This is the place that has a mahogany piano and a butterfly collection.
What is Paul's home?
He was a bed wetter.
Who was Tjaden?
Remarque includes many gory details in his novel in order to emphasize this theme.
What is the reality of war?
He dies of a head wound while being carried to safety.
Who was Kat?
This is the full name of the author.
Who is Erich Maria Remarque?
Territorial Kantorek was humiliated here by a former student.
What is training camp?
He wanted and ended up with Kemmerich's boots.
Who was Muller?
The passage "We are old folk" is an example of this thtme.
What is being young but feeling old?
He dies while trying to save a wounded messenger dog.
Who was Berger?
This is the name of the alliance or side of the war that Paul fought for.
What were the Central Powers?