https://padlet.com/mokokaunity/yudzggkn0p0h All Quiet on the Western Front en-us 2018-09-26 16:33:30 UTC 2018-09-26 17:26:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Tent.png mokokaunity https://padlet.com/mokokaunity/yudzggkn0p0h/wish/286133258 Paul’s deaths could be regarded as a tragedy.]]> 2018-09-26 16:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mokokaunity/yudzggkn0p0h/wish/286133258 mokokaunity https://padlet.com/mokokaunity/yudzggkn0p0h/wish/286136941 Paul is not a famous war hero. He is not a high-ranking, superstar officer. Instead, he is just a regular boy with a family at home and an unfinished play sitting on his bedside table. He likes to drink beer and think about girls, he has been to school and he likes to read , but he is too young to have had any major life experiences before enlisting in the war. He's your typical teenage boy—excited for his future, but still naive to certain things in life. That is, until the war changes everything and makes him an expert in death.

]]> 2018-09-26 16:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mokokaunity/yudzggkn0p0h/wish/286136941 mokokaunity https://padlet.com/mokokaunity/yudzggkn0p0h/wish/286139808 Paul had to disconnect his artistic and poetic inner self from his outer, gun-toting, animistic self. We detect his need to suppress emotion in his storytelling. For example, instead of writing diary entry after diary entry about how sad he is to lose Albert Kropp, he simply tells us that he had to leave his friend, and that was that ("Parting from my friend Albert Kropp was very hard. But a man gets used to that sort of thing in the army." (10.236)). Paul fights battles, plays pranks, gets injured, goes home, makes friends, loses loved ones, leads men, and eventually dies a death that is painted as relief. In contrary,  the fact that Paul appears relieved to be done with life is a deep criticism of the war as a whole because of Paul's need to kill the soft and kind inner self in order to continue to survive.  Paul was spiritually dead before he was physically dead.

]]> 2018-09-26 16:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mokokaunity/yudzggkn0p0h/wish/286139808 mokokaunity https://padlet.com/mokokaunity/yudzggkn0p0h/wish/286145590 Paul learns early on that he is part of a ruined generation, a lost generation. As a young man in his late teens, he begins the war with lots to live for. All he knows are his schoolbooks, his family, his hometown, and his love of writing. He still has a lot to learn and see of the world. War scares that desire and hunger for knowledge away. As a soldier Paul learns how to kill and, more importantly, how not to be killed. While he might have once wanted to grow up to be a writer, to date lots of girls, or to travel the world, these dreams have been essentially buried. Paul does not tell us about his hopes and plans, though the fact that he writes this account of his experiences might indicate that he hopes to be a writer or to uncover the realities of the war, realities of which were downplayed by German politicians and newspapers.  Still, Paul is a visionary. One thing is for certain, however, by the time the novel ends, Paul has learned that the war has robbed him of his future. He dies soon after this realization hits.

]]> 2018-09-26 16:57:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mokokaunity/yudzggkn0p0h/wish/286145590 mokokaunity https://padlet.com/mokokaunity/yudzggkn0p0h/wish/286152342 The ending of the novel showed that Paul was the only one among his circle of friends still living. He had watched nearly all of them (Kemmerich, Müller, Kropp, Kat, Bertinck) disappear. Each death affected him in a different way, tearing something of his humanity away from him. By the time all of his friends have died, Paul did not have much left to live for. The greatest tragedy of the novel arrives when Kat is wounded one summer day, Paul binds his wound and then carries him though the storm of gunfire to the nearest makeshift hospital. Paul puts his own life on the line so that he might save the life of his closest friend. When he realizes that a shrapnel splinter has hit the back of Kat's head and that Kat has died, Paul is devastated. Not long after this incident Paul dies.This is evident enough that Paul's death was tragic. ]]> 2018-09-26 17:09:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mokokaunity/yudzggkn0p0h/wish/286152342