They keep the feathers to make pillows. Paul feels an intimate closeness with Kat as they roast the goose. They eat their fill and take the rest to Tjaden and Kropp. An intelligent, speculative young man, Kropp is one of Paul's closest friends during the war. His interest in analyzing the causes of the war leads to many of the most critical antiwar sentiments in the novel.
What does Paul say might have been different if they'd returned home in ? Paul becomes the last of his seven classmates. The novel then shifts away from Paul's first-person perspective and ends with an announcement that Paul has died. The army report issued on the day of his death stated only this: All quiet on the Western Front.
After Kat dies from a shrapnel splinter in the head , the loss of "Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky" seems all the more intolerable, as though the final prop has been knocked from beneath Paul, leaving him defenseless in the face of the interminable war.
Leer bleeds to death from a thigh wound. The summer of is horrific. Though they are obviously losing, the Germans keep fighting. Rumors of a possible end to the war make the soldiers more reluctant to return to the front lines. Lesson Summary Haie is killed in an attack on the front when he's hit in the back. He serves as a tragic reminder of the consequences of war and its brutality. Kropp jokes, "Seen the infants?
Kat jokes about the scarcity of decent food and promises an upgrade to current fare. Haie says, "Revenge is black-pudding," which, presumably means that revenge is good. They troops were learning to salute on a sunny day. Paul says that the soldiers have the two things they need for contentment, which are good food and rest.
Kemmerich is a boyish young man and schoolfriend of the narrator, Paul. He is very popular with women; when he and his comrades meet three French women, he is the first to seduce one of them. Unfortunately, Kat sustains another injury—shrapnel in his brain—while Paul is carrying him and dies almost instantly. This death is among the most shocking for Paul; he had assumed his friend was only slightly wounded.
Why will this make it easier for Mittelstaedt to return to the front lines? Mittelstaedt torments Kantorek by using his power and rank to put him down, and he also repeated all the things that Kantorek said to him.
He also appoints Kantorek as squad leader, which means he has to do double the training. Paul is a compassionate and sensitive young man; before the war, he loved his family and wrote poetry.
Because of the horror of the war and the anxiety it induces, Paul, like other soldiers, learns to disconnect his mind from his feelings, keeping his emotions at bay in order to preserve his sanity and survive.
She demands to know how he died. Paul lies to her by telling her that he died quickly with little pain and suffering. He also wishes that he had never come home on leave because it only awakens pain for himself and his mother. After years of fighting, Paul is finally killed in October of , on an extraordinarily quiet, peaceful day. There is still fighting, and men are still dying on both sides.
Haie Westhus dies of an injury to his lung that he sustained in the trenches. Haie Westhus dies a bloody and painful death in the midst of battle in the trenches. In the summer of , Leer bleeds to death from a hip wound. He dies from a shot of a light pistol in the stomach.
He survives half an hour in terrible pain, handing over his precious boots to Paul during his last minutes. He bears a deep grudge against Corporal Himmelstoss. Kantorek - A pompous, ignorant, authoritarian schoolmaster in Paul's high school during the years before the war. After being wounded above the knee, Albert vows that he will kill himself before living life without his leg, which is amputated at thigh level.
Perhaps as object lesson, a musician who shares his ward tries to stab himself in the heart with a fork, driving in the tines with blows from his shoe. After years of fighting, Paul is finally killed in October of , on an extraordinarily quiet , peaceful day. There's a good reason for this: Himmelstoss humiliates Tjaden during basic training, because Tjaden has a problem with bed-wetting.
Tjaden's story ends a little differently than the rest of his friends' do he doesn't die. At least in this novel. What is the message of All Quiet on the Western Front? Thus, the theme of All Quiet on the Western Front is the individual's struggle against forces beyond his control: technology, institutions, politics, social conventions, disease, and death. The soldiers become automata, trying to avoid death more than actually fighting.
How did Muller die in all quiet? In Erich Maria Remarque's famed anti-war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Muller demonstrates the mindset that was necessary for survival in the war.
Sadly, Muller doesn't survive the war and is killed by a pistol shot. He gives Paul, the narrator, his prized boots as he dies. Why is all quiet on the western front banned? The Nazis also revoked Remarque's citizenship because of his views as put forth in the novel.
Although the book does not describe how Paul died, the cinematic version of All Quiet on the Western Front does attempt to fill in the blanks. In the film, Paul is shot dead by a French sniper as he calmly and carelessly reaches out of his trench in an attempt to touch a butterfly.
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