However none of this affected Paul. ... He creates stories to make his life seem great which results in him not having any friends in his life. ... Paul feels that this decision is the only solution to his problems, and when he realizes this only temporarily fulfilled his dreams, he gives up and decides to take his own life. ... Paul is introduced as a smiling young man with disrespect for most things but the reader slowly comes to realize that his sense of the world is irrational and his inner flaws are gradually exposed.  ... Coming to understand the way Paul substitutes art and music with...

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Paul and his friends soon realize that war is not glorious and honorable. ... After the incident, Paul and his friends are sent to guard a supply depot for three weeks. During the next battle, Paul breaks his leg and injures his arm, and one of his friends is injured as well. Shortly thereafter, all of Paul's friends are killed in battle one by one. ... Paul and his friends were taught that patriotism required suppressing individuality and personality while in combat. ...

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The story begins with a childhood fantasy and ends with Paul and his friends facing the real horror of actual war as a soldier. ... While at war, these boys began to realize that their dreams and beliefs were no close to reality. ... The defining moment for Paul where he realized his reality was when he had to kill Gerard Duval; the printer turned enemy who jumps into the same shell-hole as Paul. ... War destroys Paul and his friends. ... But as the war continues and Paul's friends die on the battlefield, first Kemmerich, then Westhus and then Muller, Paul's hope that he will make ...

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Paul's letter to the Romans is exactly one of these difficult to understand works. ... As we can see throughout the letter, Paul's situation is a delicate one indeed. ... Making the letter more personal so as to ease its awkwardness, he greets his friends Prisca and Aquila who he met earlier and now had returned to Rome, as well as Andronicus and Junia. Paul knows what's happening in Rome. ... Realizing that the Jews and Gentiles are at odds due to their different takes on justification due to law or faith as well as problems with each other's practices, Paul speaks ...

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He realized that not all of the men returned. ... He returns home wondering how many of his friends are going to die while he is gone. ... Paul did not realize this until he carried him a long distance. ... Paul is the only one left out of all his friends that joined the army. ... Paul realizes he has nothing left to go home to. ...

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The one thing he valued was his nice boots, and de requested that his friends deliver them back to his family when he died. Behind his back, one of his friends stole his boots and ran away. ... Paul then realized that this man was just like him, a scared man fighting for his life. ... Paul eventually gets his chance for leave. ... Depressed, Paul heads back to the war, realizing that it is the only place where he belongs anymore. ...

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Corporal Himmelstoss was a training officer who lets power go to his brain and nearly tortures Paul and his friends throughout the training process. ... Detering, another of Paul's Second Company friends, tends to think of nothing more than his farm and his wife back at home. ... Then I look at friends of mine training in the Naval Academy and realize that this is it, this is the age, this is the time, and this is "our" world as we know it changing before our eyes. ... It is soon there after that he realizes this man has not died and agony sets in. ... His friends explain to him and...

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When Paul meets the Russian prisoners, he begins to realize just who his enemies were. He realizes that that their enemies were not the people they were fighting against, but in reality the people who started the war in the first place. ... As Paul returned from leave, he is worried that his friends are not living. ... Paul and Kat were best friends. ... Paul could not live much longer without the friends, who were "nearer than lovers" to him. ...

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Paul and his friends found neither glory nor praise on the battlefield. ... (Stickel 1) After his time at war, he comes to realize that most pre-war society doesn't understand the war for what it is. ... The only way that Paul can come to grips with reality is to disassociate himself from his parents and his old friends. Paul realizes they remind him of his pre-war days of innocence. Paul realizes his only friends now are the ones in the military, because they are the only ones who can understand how he feels. ...

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Paul realizes that outside the war this would not have happened. He and his friends would have been too compassionate towards Kemmerich to even notice his boots. ... Paul also recalls that his parents, teachers, and elders all encouraged he and his friends to enlist, passionately. ... But after the war began, the soldiers realized that the older generation had failed them, and Paul reacts to this failure with anger and disdain. ... Every single event in the war molded Paul and his friends into people they shouldn't have been. ...

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The war brought everything that are bad to Paul and his friends, the lived in terror and fear every single day. ... Paul's friends let him one by one, Paul got alone, and finally died in peace at the end of the war. ... The author expressed this theme through Paul and his friends' thoughts and conversation very successfully. ... Paul became very regretful about what he did; because he realized that his enemy was only an inculpable solider, just like him. ... In general I like the book better, but for the ending of these two, I prefer the one in the film: Just about the end of the ...

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Instead, he hears the voices of his friends: "I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same fear and the same life...I could bury my face in them, in these voices...... When Paul and his friends talk about enemies, they do not speak of the soldiers on the other side. ... When Paul kills the Frenchman, he has realized that it wasn't him who made him commit the act, but the idea of war that his superiors have put in his mind. ... But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind..."" (79) Here, before Paul realizes how similar the Frenchman was to himsel...

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Alice Paul was born on January 11, 1885, in Moorestown, New Jersey. ... Alice attended Moorestown Friends School, where she then graduated at the top of her entire class. ... This is where Alice realized her true calling. ... Paul and several other suffragists where forcibly fed in torturous methods. ... After her death in 1977, the Alice Paul Institute was founded. ...

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It also angered Paul that he did not have anything to go back to after the war. ... As the novel continued, Paul realized that he had to accept the war. ... Paul was able to maintain sanity during war, but at the cost of his priceless youth and innocence. ... Lastly, the French girls remark is true in that the soldiers lost touch with their friends and families. ... In the novel, Paul disaffiliated himself from his parents and others back at home. ...

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Paul displays this characteristic in the Gerald Duval incident. ... - However, this is not how Paul used to be, and so Paul points a finger at Kantorek and all like him. ... Before the war, Paul is a normal youthful teenager. He would hang out with his friends and play games. ... When Paul took his trip home, he saw townspeople talking about the war, not realizing how terrible it was. ...

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Paul has several friends who enlisted with him. ... Katczinsky, commonly called Kat, is Paul's best friend. ... Of all Paul's soldier friends, Kat is the most resourceful. ... When he makes it home, he realizes he has changed. ... Paul realizes that the enemy is no different from himself when he meets up with Duval in a shell hole. ...

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However, as soon as he meets Himmelstoss in a real battle situation, he realizes the insecurities and the cowardice behind the bullying. ... Paul also had an affinity with nature and in particular, birds. ... Jim and Paul were only at war due to peer pressure from their friends swept up in the idealistic vision of war and from the ever-present propaganda from their respective nations, Australia and Germany. ... However, Paul was more influenced by his friends and his schoolteacher, who had encouraged his pupils to protect the fatherland'. ... Jim and Paul both demonstrated their reluctan...

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Kammerich's friends are more concerned with ensuring the possession of boots rather than with the dying comrade. ... Remarque shows the transformation of young soldiers by representing the whole generation in a single human being, Paul. ... We are revealed to the fact that Paul does not want to kill Gerard but he is afraid that he would get killed himself. In addition, Paul makes a promise to the dying soldier to send money to his family. ... Paul's experience of the close combat makes him realize that he is fighting citizens just like himself; thereby, creating a feeling of guilt to...

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For example, when Paul is behind enemy lines alone wishing his comrades were there, he hears some footsteps and crouches, but soon realizes it is Kat, his friend, with the muffled voice. ... Here we see how the war has stripped Paul's knowledge of survival. ... The will to fight also declines, until the troops realize the love for each other. ... Like Paul, the bond between comrades saved the lives of many. ... For instance, when Paul is sitting in a small garden with the sun shining on him, while thinking how he is the last of his seven friends, he says to himself, "Had we returned home ...

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Paul's closeness with his comrades begins to grow until he sees the enemy ads comrades with different uniforms. ... This was said after Paul killed Gerald Duval and realized he had a family and friends just like Paul. ... War brutality is highly expressed as Paul sees many of his friends die, and to many it doesn't touch them anymore. ... Even if Paul survived the war, even if all of his comrades were still alive, all would be lost. ... "Words, words, words- said by Paul on his leave, so deep in thought that books just appear to be words on paper. ...

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Paul and his friends had a few escapades to break up the gloom of war. ... These events were spread throughout the duration of their fight to survive, and some of their friends were unable to take part in some activities due to their demise. ... After Paul returned to the front and saw the new recruits, he realized that he was truly experienced. ... The last friend Paul lost was Katczinsky. ... Soon after, Paul himself fell. ...

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Upon his arrival Paul realizes that he has been crushed without knowing it. ... It is now that Paul realizes the war has truly ruined him. ... When Paul's mother asks "was is very bad out there, Paul?" ... You would not understand, you could never realize it. And you shall never realize it"(Remarque, 161). ...

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They go to training for a few weeks and live life on the front they soon realize it is not all it was supposed to be. ... Throughout the book the characters lost people who they had been friends with forever. ... Paul, the narrator of the book, went to the war alongside of some of his friends Tjaden, Muller, Kropp, and some others. Paul and his friends were told that the war was a great and heroic thing but when they finally got there they found out the truth. Paul was the last one of his friends to survive which means he saw the most and was the most effected by the war. ...

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He is what Paul calls a "peat digger". ... His fear is realized when a French soldier does fall into the same trench. ... It is only after the attack; Paul realized this man that he stabbed was no more vicious than himself. ... He realizes that those on the opposite side have the same people waiting for them at home; the only difference is a nationality. ... His guilt stems from being alive beyond his friends. ...

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• Grade Level: High School