Paul Baumer "All Quiet On The Western Front The story of Paul Baumer, the narrator from the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, is one of the stories that have a great impact on my life. The story centers on Paul Baumer, who enlists in the German army with glowing enthusiasm. ... Baumer and his classmates who enlisted into the army see the true reality of the war. ... This is how Baumer feels, he cannot relate with men who have not fought the war. ... Baumer and all soldiers are different, changed from when they entered the war. ...

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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. ... In the novel, Paul disaffiliated himself from his parents and others back at home. ... During a leave, Baumer visited his home town. ...

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Paul has several friends who enlisted with him. ... Baumer admires his wittiness and strives to be more like him. ... Baumer's troop has the assignment of guarding a supply depot. ... One day Kropp and Baumer are wounded while evacuating a village. Baumer fully recovers, but Kropp has to have his leg amputated. ...

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It focuses on a young German soldier by the name of Paul Baumer and the changes and struggles he faces throughout the war. ... Baumer and his classmates had volunteered for the war and their decision was mainly based upon what their schoolteacher had been telling them. ... Paul decides to go ahead and visit one of is an old classmate who is Kemmerich. Kemmerich had suffered a wound and it was obvious to Paul that he would soon die. Paul does not leave Kemmerich's side until he dies. ...

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I will help her, and your parents too, and your child -----"" The words of Paul Baumer relate to the theme of the story in that they express how much destruction and suffering war causes whether on the battlefield or off. It is see from Paul's concern and desire to ease the pain of the Frenchman's family that he is feeling the pain of war. Paul is also seeing the future pain of the French man's family as he saw in Kemmerich's mother when he lied to her about how Kemmerich had died. ... Paul and his comrades are taught to disregard that these men, the enemy, are people and...

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Paul Baumer is the main character of the story. ... Paul's schoolmaster, Kantorek, was the main influence on Paul joining the German army. ... Through Paul Baumer, Remarque shows how war makes man inhuman. ... Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is a story of the hardships of Paul Baumer, a nineteen year old student, and his friends as they are dehumanized in the war. ... Paul Baumer was the main character in the story. ...

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The story "All Quiet on the Western Front" centers on a young man named Paul Baumer narrates the story. ... Paul and Albert Kropp, one of Paul's young friends, were wounded and put on a train to seek treatment for their injuries. ... The most heart breaking loss for Paul was Kat. ... Paul is now the only one left. The concluding chapter leads to Paul's death. ...

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Through the eyes of Paul Baumer, a young man shipped off to fight, a story is told of hopelessness and desperation on the front lines of WWI. ... Once Baumer arrives, he immediately begins training while spurred on with the motto "kill or be killed." ... However, after watching a man die at his hands, Baumer can no longer cope with the idea of killing the enemy. ... Once a cordial and friendly man, Paul Baumer had been made into a monster, lacking all feelings of remorse. ... In fact, the effects of killing this man were so hard on Baumer that eh began to question whether he could continue...

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Paul Baumer, the narrator of the story, and his fellow classmates unpretentiously enter military service, but much to their chagrin, the realities of war soon revolutionize Paul and his comrades into "old folk" and "wild beasts". ... Paul only feels at home now on the front with his fellow soldiers, his friends who one by one die. "By the time Kat dies, Paul's best friend, Paul feels that his own life no longer has meaning," as said by William Mory. ... It could, and has been said that Paul's generation grew up, unintentionally, too fast. ... All Quiet on the Western Front told ...

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Paul Baumer is a young soldier who was changed drastically by the brutalities of war and may never be able to recover. ... Paul's best friend Kat is a very resourceful man and can always find food. He is also older then Paul and most of the soldiers at war. ... Kantorek, Paul's previous schoolmaster, is essentially why they were at the war. ... Duval, a French soldier, is the first person that Paul kills in hand-to-hand combat. ...

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Paul Baumer is a boy of 19 years, who voluntarily joined the Army with several of his friends after hearing a patriotic speech given at his school. ... Paul returns and goes to battle. ... Paul feels awful for hurting this man. ... The next battle injures Paul and Kropp. ... And in October 1918, Paul is killed. ...

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The main character Paul Baumer is a compassionate and sensitive young man; before the war he loved his family, his books, and he even wrote poetry. ... Paul continues to wait but his quiet rapture does not come. no matter how hard Paul tries to retreat to his prewar mentality he is unsuccessful. It is now that Paul realizes the war has truly ruined him. ... When Paul's mother asks "was is very bad out there, Paul?" ... People talk too much for Paul. ...

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The comparison of Odysseus and Paul or Achilles and Paul is quite absurd. ... But Paul was simply a teenager who just started going through war. ... And that is also why I believe that it is totally absurd to compare Odysseus to the man Paul Baumer. ... Now when it comes to our old friend Paul Baumer, it takes alot to transform from a boy to a man that acts like an animal, to have cat like reflexes to survive war, and must also dehumanize the enemy. ... Just like Paul, he thought he knew but he really had know idea. ...

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In chapter two one of the characters , Paul Baumer, realizes that his ten years of schooling have taught him less than ten weeks as a soldier. ... The book says that Paul has been at war and has not had time for love. ...

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The story is told by Paul Baumer, a German soldier during World War I. ... Finally she does speak to him and asks, "Was it very bad out there, Paul?" ... Paul decides to use words that are false because he does not want his mother to have to hear these awful things but Paul creates separation between his mother and himself. ... During the course of his leave, Paul also sees his father. ... Paul is horrified at his action. ...

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