We Couldn T Do Without Katczinsky Analysis

At a young age the socializing activity begins, people visit different places every day so at least in one you will encounter someone with the same interests or hobbies as you, or maybe not even someone with the same pastime but somebody only with an enjoyable conversation. Friends become your second family and more in a situation as a war, where your only companionship is a rifle, a pack of cigarettes together with a letter and a picture of your other family. Nobody act as a lone wolf in war, soldiers need comrades, these became a support to keep fighting. Paul found this pillar in Stanislaus Katczinsky. Paul describes Kat as “the leader of the group, shrewd, cunning, and hard-bitten, forty years age, with a face of the soil, blue eyes, bent shoulders, and a remarkable nose for dirty weather, good food and soft jobs” (Remarque 5) in other words, a mature figure in where Paul and the rest of the second company put their hopes to guide them to victory. Paul remarks Kat's abilities pointing out that “We couldn’t do without Katczinsky, [he] is the smartest I know” (Remarque 29) and meaning it because the crew was young and without experiences. In one part of the war, Kat suggested escape to find and cook a goose (something that Paul could never do), this represents the beginning of …show more content…
This becomes the reason why Paul suffers massively when Kat died in combat saying to himself ““All is as usual. Only that the Militiamen Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more” (Remarque 212)”. All quiet on the western front could not be the same without Kat. The development, personality, or analysis of the character are uncomplicated but the contribution and connection to the group of this soul represent crucial on the book. It exists characters that stick with you after you finish the book, Stanislaus Katczinsky is one of