Their attitudes show a great deal of change from the start of the war until the end. The novel shows the powerful effects war can have upon a person. These soldiers start out by feeling patriotic ready to fight for their country, to ending up feeling exhausted emotionally and physically. They are scared about what’s to come for them, and don’t know whether they are going to ever see their families again or not. This novel helps the audience understand the effects of war. The author stresses that the soldiers are no longer fighting to protect their country as they were before. They are now fighting for their survival. The novel does not make war look “attractive.” It makes war look brutal and gruesome. A war most people would not want to fight in. It sets out to portray war as it was truly experienced from the soldiers point of
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They were experiencing life changing events. For example, the first traumatic event that happened to the soldiers was when they were in the trenches and were bombed. 80 soldiers out of the 150 they began with were killed in this incident. Another incident that occurred that changed their perspective on the war was when their friend Kemmerich got injured. Kemmerich had a wound to his leg and had to get his leg amputated, and eventually died from doctors not caring about enlisted men who were in the hospital. This was one of the first real injuries to their one of their friends. They now see that they all might not make it home. The company is caught in a bloody battle. Men are blown apart, limbs are blown off the bodies, and rats ate off of the bodiesThey also had to deal with the filthy conditions of the trench warfare. Paul feels that he must become non-human in the battle, only trusting himself. After the battle, only thirty-two out of eighty men were still alive. Their attitudes are now starting to change from positive to negative due to the
They were experiencing life changing events. For example, the first traumatic event that happened to the soldiers was when they were in the trenches and were bombed. 80 soldiers out of the 150 they began with were killed in this incident. Another incident that occurred that changed their perspective on the war was when their friend Kemmerich got injured. Kemmerich had a wound to his leg and had to get his leg amputated, and eventually died from doctors not caring about enlisted men who were in the hospital. This was one of the first real injuries to their one of their friends. They now see that they all might not make it home. The company is caught in a bloody battle. Men are blown apart, limbs are blown off the bodies, and rats ate off of the bodiesThey also had to deal with the filthy conditions of the trench warfare. Paul feels that he must become non-human in the battle, only trusting himself. After the battle, only thirty-two out of eighty men were still alive. Their attitudes are now starting to change from positive to negative due to the