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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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: High School

Paul first enlists with a group of his friends who all have much enthusiasm towards the war. ... You would not understand, you could never realize it. And you never shall realize it." ... Paul is horrified at his action. ... He realizes that the man he killed is no real enemy, that, in fact, he had a family, and is clearly very much like Paul himself. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This is a very common misconception that Remarque attempts to rid the reader of very early when in the first chapter, Pauls good friend Kemmerich has his leg amputated from a bullet and then dies a painfully slow death with Paul at his side. ... This is one of a great number of battle scenes that Paul and his comrades encounter throughout the book. ... When he realizes it is his own side, he comments about their voices, They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the...

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Written in 1929, the book is about Paul Baumer, the narrator, and his fellow classmates who enlist in the German army during World War 1. These young men become fervent soldiers, but they are soon to realize that their lives will be changed. ... They have no family or close friends to succor their hardships and distress, therefore confide into their fellow comrades. In the novel, Paul states "We are two men, two-minute sparks of life; outside is the night and the circle of death.... Paul, for example, becomes incompatible of imagining a future without war and also cannot visualize himself...

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