All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front In the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, the author uses nature, and comradeship, to describe what the characters atomic number 18 going through. Erich uses nature in some(prenominal) ways, much(prenominal) as describing how the soldiers are facing execrable hardships, also it reflects on their sadness, and provides a contrast to the unnatural world of war. The author also uses the fore Comradeship through all the horrifying pictures of death and inhumanity, he dialogue about when capital of Minnesota and his friends pick on Himmelstoss and beat him.We think its funny because Himmelstoss deserves it for being rude to them, and capital of Minnesota and his friends are just braggy him what he deserves. As we start going farther into the book, we start to transact that beating on someone isnt funny anymore. We read the how the soldiers notice after assaulting and bolt downing other people, it gives us a disturbing theme abou t war. Erich shows the theme Nature in many parts of the book. In chapter 2, when Kemmerich dies Paul takes his identification tags and walks outside(a).He then says I breathe as of late as I female genital organ, and feel the breeze in my face, warm and cushiony as never before. (Remarque 33) This is one of many times, when nature has helped the manpower go through bad experiences, and help them move on. Nature also reflects the terrible sadness of the addled generation. In Chapter 4, Pauls company sustains heavy losings and a recruit is wounded so badly Paul and Kat get wind cleansing him to end his suffering. The Lorries and medics arrive too quickly, and they are forced to second thought their decision.Paul watches the rain fall and says It waterfall on our heads and on the heads of the dead, up in the line, on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is so more than too big for his hip it falls on Kemmerich grave it falls in our paddy wagon. (Remarque The cleansing rain falls upon the hopelessness of Pauls living and the lives of those approximately him. Throughout Remarques book, we also trance a strong affinity in the midst of nature and lost dreams and memories. When Paul is on sen turn up duty in Chapter 6, he remembers his childhood and thinks about the poplar avenue where such a long time ago they sat beneath the trees and put their feet in the stream.Back then the water was fragrant, the wind melodious these memories of nature cause a powerful calmness and awaken a remembrance of what was but sadly, depart never be again. Finally, butterflies play gracefully and settle on the odontiasis of a skull birds fly through the air in a happy-go-lucky pattern. This is nature in the midst of death and destruction. While men kill each other and wonder why, the butterflies, birds, and breeze flutter though the killing fields and carry on as if mankind were quite insignificant.Even at the end when Paul knows there is so little time until the armistice, he reflects on the beauty of purport and hopes that he can stay existing until the laws of nature once again prevail and the actions of men bring peace. He describes the red poppies, meadows, beetles, grass, trees at twilight, and the stars. How can such beauty go on in the midst of such heartache? Remarque says that this novel will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. If words can touch what men hold to be dear in their hearts and so cause them to change the world, this book with its words of a lost generation, lost values, and lost humanity is surely one that should be indispensable reading for all generations. . When Paul and his friends waylay Himmelstoss and beat on him, we jape because he deserves it and they are however giving him his due. As time goes by, however, the pictures of chumminess relieve the terrible descriptions of front line assaults and death, and they prov ide a capable light in a place of such terrible darkness.A early days recruit becomes gun-shy in his first battle when a rocket fires and explosions begin. He creeps over to Paul and buries his head in Pauls chest and arms, and Paul kindly, gently, tells him that he will get used to it (Chapter 4). Perhaps the two nigh amazing scenes of humanity and caring can be found in the story of the twitch roasting and the battle where his comrades voices cause Paul to recollect his nerve. In Chapter 5, Paul and Kat have captured a goose and are roasting it late at night.Paul says, We dont talk much, but I debate we have a more complete communion with one some other than even lovers have. We are two men, two minute sparks of life outside is the night and the circle of death. As he watches Kat roasting the goose and hears his voice, it brings Paul peace and reassurance. Over and over again, in scenes of battle and scenes of rest, we see the comradeship of this tiny group of men. Even th ough Paul counts their losses at various points, he always considers their close relationship and attempts to animation them together to help each other.In Chapter 9, when Paul is alone in the trench, he loses his nerve and his direction and is afraid he will die. 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 we are nearer than lovers, in a simpler, a harder way I could bury my face in them in these voices, these words that have rescue me and will stand by me. There is a grace here, in the face of all sorrow and hopelessness, a grace that occurs when men consider their humanity and their reliance on others.Through thick and thin, battle and rest, horror and hopelessness, these men hold each other up. Finally, Paul has only Kat and he loses even this friend and father-figure in Chapter 11. Kats death is so overtake and so final that we do not hear Pauls reaction we only see him break down in the face of i t. There is such final irony in the medics question about whether they are related. This man, this hero, this father, this life has been closer to Paul than his own blood relatives and yet Paul must(prenominal) say, No, we are not related. It is the final stunning blow before Paul must go on alone.