All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque

every Quiet on the Western Front In the book whole Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, the author uses nature, and comradeship, to answer for what the characters argon going done. Erich uses nature in several ways, such as describing how the soldiers are facing indescribable hardships, alike it reflects on their sadness, and provides a blood to the unnatural world of war. The author also uses the proposition Comradeship through exclusively the horrifying pictures of death and in worldly concern, he talks about when capital of Minnesota and his fri completes pick on Himmelstoss and beat him.We think its funny be flummox Himmelstoss deserves it for world rude to them, and capital of Minnesota and his conversancys are just giving him what he deserves. As we start going farther into the book, we start to realize that beating on someone isnt funny anymore. We read the how the soldiers feel after assaulting and killing new(prenominal) people, it gives us a disturbin g thought about war. Erich shows the theme Nature in many parts of the book. In chapter 2, when Kemmerich dies capital of Minnesota takes his appoint workforcet tags and walks outside.He then says I breathe as deep as I can, and feel the breeze in my lawsuit, warm and soft as neer before. (Remarque 33) This is one of many cadences, when nature has supported the men go through problematical experiences, and help them move on. Nature also reflects the terrible sadness of the befogged generation. In Chapter 4, capital of Minnesotas company sustains heavy losses and a recruit is wound so badly Paul and Kat consider killing him to end his suffering. The Lorries and medics arrive too quickly, and they are forced to rethink their decision.Paul watches the rain patch up and says It f altogethers on our heads and on the heads of the dead, up in the line, on the system of the little recruit with the wound that is so much too heavy(p) for his hip it fall(a)s on Kemmerich grave it f alls in our hearts. (Remarque The neaten rain falls upon the hopelessness of Pauls life and the lives of those around him. Throughout Remarques book, we also see a strong affinity between nature and upset dreams and memories. When Paul is on sentry duty in Chapter 6, he remembers his childishness 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 system was fragrant, the wind melodious these memories of nature cause a powerful unfeelingness and awaken a remembrance of what was but sadly, get out never be again. Finally, butterflies play gracefully and settle on the teeth of a skull birds drop through the air in a carefree pattern. This is nature in the center of death and destruction. While men kill each other and wonder why, the butterflies, birds, and breeze flutter though the killing fields and confine 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 dishful of life and hopes that he can stay alive until the laws of nature erstwhile again prevail and the actions of men bring placidity. 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 single out of a generation of men who, even though they may fork everywhere 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 unconnected generation, lost values, and lost humanity is surely one that should be required reading for all generations. . When Paul and his friends waylay Himmelstoss and beat on him, we laugh because he deserves it and they are only giving him his due. As time goes by, however, the pictures of camaraderie relieve the terrible descriptions of fro nt line assaults and death, and they provide a bright light in a place of such terrible darkness.A young 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 most amazing scenes of humanity and caring can be found in the story of the fathead roasting and the battle where his comrades voices cause Paul to regain his nerve. In Chapter 5, Paul and Kat have captured a goose and are roasting it tardy at night.Paul says, We dont talk much, but I believe we have a more complete communion with one another than even lovers have. We are two men, two minute sparks of life outside is the night and the turn 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 fine group of men. Even though Paul counts their losses at assorted points, he always considers their close relationship and attempts to keep them together to help each other.In Chapter 9, when Paul is alone in the trench, he loses his nerve and his circumspection 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 adjacent than lovers, in a simpler, a harder way I could bury my face in them in these voices, these words that have saved me and will corroborate by me. There is a grace here, in the face of all sorrow and hopelessness, a grace that occurs when men realize their humanity and their assent 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 overwhelming and so net that we do not hear Pauls reaction we only see him arrest down in the face of it. There is such final jeering 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 say, No, we are not related. It is the final stunning blow before Paul must go on alone.