All Quiet on the Western Front

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Symbolism

CHARACTER                             

1.  Paul

 Every time his friends die a part of him dies.  He is connected to his friends and they are they to support him.

2.  Kat

 Kat is Pauls best friend and when he dies the last part of Paul dies he has no other reason to live. 

3.  Albert Kropp

He is Pauls classmate and is really smart.  He is the clearest think of all the classmates and all the friends.  

4.  Leer

 He is one of Pauls friends and the first one to grow a beard, his showed the people that these boys were still young and couldnt even grow a beard. 

5.  Franz Kemmerich

 He was one of Pauls friends and die in the beginning of the story, he gives Muller the boots and after that Paul gets Franz boots.

6.  Detering

 He was a farmer and a loner, he didnt really want to be in the war because there was no one to take care of his farm, he ran from the war and no one heard from him again.

7.  Kantorek

 He loves war so much and persuades his students to join the army but has no clue what being on the front is all about 

8.  Corporal Himmelstoss

  At training camp he is so mean on the soldiers but on the front he is a scared little boy and wants to sit on the front.

SCENE OR SITUATION                              

1. The theft of Kemmerichs watch

This symbolizes that in a war anyone would do anything to get something no matter what they are doing.  Kemmerich should have brought the watch into the war because it was a good watch and some one was going to take it. 

2. Kemmerichs

 It showed to Paul that was a real part to this was and that he and his friends werent protected from it. 

3. The front

 The front I think represented because it was at the front were most of the men died.  The men thought of every time they were sent to the front. 

4. Earth! Earth! Earth!

Earth was the only think that protect them while they were alive, like trenches, and they were in the ground when they died.   

5. Coffin stacked against a schoolhouse wall

 The soldiers knew that the coffins stacked against the school were for them when they died.  Death was coming for them.

6. The of the horses

 Horses had nothing to due with this war and but were force onto the battlefield to die.

7. Paul dreaming of childhood scenes during a y battle 

 Paul dreamed of childhood a scene because he wants to remember how it was when he wasnt worried about dying every second and how peaceful his life was before the war.

8. The plight of the infantrymen during battle

The infantrymen during the battle were men that were going to die from this war. 

9. The young recruits [the infants]

 The government started to send these infants to die on the front.  These young recruits were sent out to the war just for one reason to die.  There would be no German people left.

SCENE OR SITUATION

10. The encounter with the French s

 Paul and his friends were too young to have a real relationship with any women when they left.  So when he encountered the French s he didnt feel any love.

11. Pauls visit home

 When Paul visited home he had so many emotions and he realized that all these people had no idea of what war was.  He was missing his life at home and wanted to be with his mom

12. The Russian prisoners

 Paul realized that these prisoners were just like him but from another country and spoke another language.  He wondered how people could treated someone so alike, so meanly just because the country they are from.

13. Sharing the goose with Kat

 He was sharing food with his best friend in the world and this brought Paul closer to Kat.  Kat was his friend and they were going through this war together.

14. The of Gerard Duval

15. Pauls friends voices in the dark during combat

 Paul thinks that his friends are talking to him and this sort of brings him some comfort to know that his friends are still some where near him.

16. The of Kat

 The of Kat totally destroyed Paul because he was the last of his friends to die and now Paul was the only one left and there is no one to share his pain.

17. Pauls

 Pauls was Paul letting go.  He was at peace no, there was no more and war for him, and he could go join his friends.

18. The boots

Every time a person dies the boots gets a new owner so after Pauls , there is no new owner because his friends are all died.