Max Klapp

Mr. Krucli

English 2 E-Core

6 May 2002

All Quiet Group Work

Page 28-32: Theme of the destructiveness of war, foreshadowing and characterization of Kemmerich

Kemmerich looks as slight and as a child.  He is 19 ½ years old.  He is a scared person that does not want to die, and everyone else does not want him to die either.  He is a fighter who fights to try to stay alive.  But he really did not get the right amount of care so that he could stay alive.

The book shows the destructiveness of war in that it shows how the young adults are forced into way of life that is extremely rigorous during a war time.  It shows that they are just little boys at times when they are stripped but are men when they have on there uniforms.  It shows how war can warp the mind of a child, and how it can totally corrupt there minds.

When you first start to read the book you meet all of these young boys that are really excited to go into this war.  When they first hear about how they should be good citizens and join the army, they get all excited, but they dont know the downsides to war.  When Franz Kemmerich gets hurt you know that things might go worse and that everyone is not going to make it back alive.