Theme
"War is a cause of death like cancer..." (235)
What is the anti-war theme?
Narrator for the duration of the story
What is Paul Baumer?
Paul Baumer fights for what country?
What is Germany?
Where the war occurs between the German's and the Allies, both sides trying to take over each other land through trench warefare.
What is on the western front?
Disconnection from Humanity
What is the result after fighting in the war?
"When a man has seen so many dead he cannot understand...why there should be so much anguish over a single individual." (160)
What are the psychological effects of war on the soldier theme.?
Had a bed wetting accident which caused them to be tormented throughout boot camp
What is Tjaden?
A place where when being bombarded, Paul and others hide out among other "soldiers"?
Where is a graveyard?
The boots are first shown here at this place with Franz lays.
Where is hospital?
or
Where is Franz death bed?
These people were considered to be "entertainment" and "disposable" to outsiders
What is a soldier?
"It is as though formerly we were coins of different provinces, and now we are melted down, and all bear the same stamp." (236)
What is the nationalism?
Was a power abuser of his rank and tormented Paul and friends
Who is Corporal Himmelstoss?
Kemmerich's boots symbolized
What is lack of value for human life?
Three Women meet German troops here and they later will start to "bond" with the troops
What is France?
They are the same people but are forced to pit against each other. This is where Paul realizes it from looking at these people.
What is the realization between Paul and the Russian prisoners?
"It is a great brotherhood...It has awakened in us a sense of comradeship." (236-7)
What is the comradery theme?
Calls Paul and his generation "Iron Youth" and encourages them to get involved in their country
Who is Kantorek?
The point in the story where the war is at the most quiet part and third view point narrator talks briefly
What is the end of the book?
or
What is Paul's death?
Many like them but this one was where we find Himmelstoss faking an injury.
What is a Trench?
Keep composure, stay calm and focus, keep moving, and fight.
What is Paul and his fellow soldiers strategy? (element)
"We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost." (123).
What is the generation gap (the lost generation)?
Gets sick but is driven to another hospital with main protagonist
Who is Kropp?
Generation being lost due to the war and those who survived will never be the same but cold, distant, and empty.
What is Paul's fear?
The family home where we find someone with cancer, a sort of barrier between family and soldier, and where identity crisis kicked in for this character
Where was Paul's leave?
Daily Double:
The overall message of the book
What is this describing?
War is bloody and cruel. It changes people to something they never were and would never be the same again. You'll do things you don't want to because you were told you had to. Don't get caught up with everything. Make your own decisions and don't think war is the place to be.