Plot
This part of Freytag’s plot structure in All Quiet on the Western Front involves Kropps leg being amputated and Paul dying.
What is the Conclusion?
Paul is gaslight by war propaganda at the time to believe that war is honorable in this growth stage
What is the Beginning of Paul’s Growth?
The Point of view that All Quiet on the Western Front is told from.
What is First Person View?
Paul and his friends experience irreversible emotional damage, representing this kind of conflict.
What is Internal Conflict?
This protagonist is twenty years old, is a german soldier, is cynical, and is emotionally detached.
Who is Paul Bäumer?
This part of Freytag's plot structure in All Quiet on the Western Front involves a bloody battle against the allied forces.
What is the Climax?
The men are “wild beasts” and Paul does not feel emotion when killing in this growth stage.
What is the Middle of Paul’s Growth?
Paul is a character inside the story; not just the narrator, causing allowing him to express what he feels through similes rather than telling another character how he feels through this.
What is the voice of Paul?
This “Man vs.” conflict is shown to convey the brutality of modern warfare, focusing on chlorine gas and constant artillery rather than heroic battles.
What is Man vs. Society/Man vs. War?
This character is a soldier in Paul’s company, Paul’s best friend, forty years old, and believes war brings out the worst in people.
Who is Stanislaus Katczinsky?
This part of Freytag's plot structure in All Quiet on the Western Front involves Kemmerich’s Death and Paul’s company being bombarded in a graveyard.
What is Rising Action?
This is demonstrated by Paul’s death at the end of his growth along with many other soldiers at the time.
What is the Cost of War?
Paul’s first person view of war represents this generation of soldiers.
What is “the lost generation” of soldiers?
The Generational conflict of the older generations and the soldiers who wear led into war by this propaganda about the war.
What is the romanticization of war?
This character is a power-hunger non-commissioned training officer who taunts Paul and his friends during training.
Who is Corporal Himmelstoss?
This part of Freytag's plot structure in All Quiet on the Western Front Involves the introduction of all characters and extra rations due to 70 being loss from their patrol in the front.
What is the Exposition?
The men becoming wild beasts during various battles show them reverting to this primary instinct.
What are Survival Instincts?
All of the Similes and descriptions help the reader understand this.
What is Paul’s trauma / desensitization / dread?
Paul returns home only to realize he can’t relate to his family due to this gap of worlds.
What is he gap between Paul’s reality and the ignorance of the home front?
This character is a soldier that Paul kills in No Man's Land, traumatizing Paul.
Who is Gérard Duval?
This part of Freytag's plot structure in All Quiet on the Western Front involves paul being granted a short leave that he uses to visit his family, learning that his mother has cancer.
What is Falling Action?
Paul’s death signifies this stage of growth.
What is the End of Paul’s growth?
Because the Story is told in Paul’s voice, it allows the reader to feel this transition through Paul’s metaphorical language.
What is Paul’s transition from a patriotic student to a battle-hardened and disillusioned man?
Erich Maria Remarque (the author) portrays war not as a glorious endeavor, but as this instead.
What is an Impersonal, wasteful force that creates a lost generation.
This character is one of Paul’s old classmates that is in Paul’s company. He is one of Paul’s closest friends who willingly stands up to authority and questions the structure of the army.
Who is Albert Kropp?