Summary Of All Quiet On The Western Front

WWI a war that killed seventeen million men, wounded twenty million more and physically and mentally destroyed the lives of countless men that suffered the rest of their lives from traumatic events that stated place in WWI.
Erich Remarque brilliantly brings the tragedy into focus for the new generations in his historical novel All Quiet on the Western Front a book about physical and mental battles fought along the trenches of WWI. The story revolves around the early nineteen hundreds a group of young German men who will all join the war after being urged by one of their high school teachers to pursue in being patriotic to their country. The story starts out with nineteen year old Paul Baumer and his young comrades he went to highschool with, they enjoy the leftover rations from fallen soldiers who have died on the front. One of the first to die from their high school classmates and many more to come is Joseph Behm because the death of this
Kemmerich soon realizes his leg has been amputated and has accepted his fate but still has a hard time accepting the cold suppressing truth he may die. Paul tries to cheer his friend up but cannot do so, Kemmerich begins to weep and solemnly gives his possessions away including his boots to Muller a hardheaded practical young man also a close classmate to Paul before the war began. In following we are introduced to Stanislaus Katczinsky also known as Kat, a forty year old man with a “sixth sense” that can help him sense out food as well as bombardments on the front, also introducing Himmelstoss a un-commissioned prick strict former drill sergeant of Paul Baumer’s group. Paul’s group endures hard military labor from Himmelstoss as time passes during the training the young group of men form a grudge against Himmelstoss especially Tjaden for all the hell Himmelstoss put the young men