Characters
This is the last name of the narrator and protagonist of the book.
What is Baumer?
When Paul is on leave and he goes home to visit his family, he is going to this country.
What is Germany?
The setting of this book is in the late 1910's in this part of the world.
What is France/ the Western Front?
This character is the first to die in the book due to an infection from a wound in his thigh.
Who is Franz Kemmerich?
A character named Josef has a "shooting license," meaning he can get away with anything due to an injury on this part of his body.
What is head/ brain?
This is the nickname of a leader who Paul and other soldiers look up to because he feeds them and cares for them.
Who is Kat?
When Paul is camped in the moors, he is stationed next to a POW camp filled with prisoners from this country.
Where is Russia?
This literary device describes a message that is universal.
What is theme?
What is beat him up/ jump him?
This character gets injured with Paul during a French attack; they end up getting on the same train together after offering a bribe.
Who is Albert Kropp?
This character is bedridden and very sick with cancer.
Who is Paul's mom?
Paul and his friends travel across this to spend time with a group of French girls.
What is a canal/ river?
One major theme from the book is that the best part of conflict/ war is this.
What is comradery/ friendship?
This character visits Paul with Paul's dad when he is camped in the moors.
Who is his eldest sister, Erna?
In chapter 10, Paul and his friends are stationed in this kind of town, which they say is a "good job" because they have access to food, cigars, and bedding.
What is abandoned?
This French teacher convinces Paul and his friends to enlist, calling them "Iron Youth."
Who is Kantorek?
Some new recruits die from gas here because the gas falls to the lowest point, and they took their masks off too quickly.
What is a trench?
This device describes an unexpected, surprising event that goes against what the reader would predict.
What is irony?
When Paul goes home, he spends time in a room with his collection of this item; eventually, he leaves, finding no comfort in his old hobbies.
What are books?
One example of irony from the book comes when Paul gives this food item to the Russian POW's, who are supposed to be his enemy.
What are potato cakes?
This character, one of Paul's friends, ends up acquiring his friend's boots in the beginning of the book; by the end, he gives the boots to Paul because he dies.
Who is Muller?
While on the battlefield, Paul says this weapon symbolizes the true horror of war for him.
What are tanks?
One example of irony from the book is when Paul gets to go on leave; instead of improving his mood, he says it makes everything "______."
This recruit's story is told in chapter 6; in it, the recruit has an accident in his pants, gets injured, and eventually passes away.
Who is the fair-headed recruit?
This character ends up going AWOL at the end of the book after collecting branches of cherry blossoms that remind him of home.
Who is Detering?