World War I was one of the most tragic wars in world history up to that time. Some of the deadliest weapons and tactics were used in this war that killed nearly a whole generation of young men. These young men were influenced to join a fight that seemed like a great adventure, but it turned out to be one of the most horrific experiences a person can have. The injuries of war might be drastic, but Paul and his comrades do not focus on the past and how the got injured. They focus on the present and the future of their lives. A few conversations occur between Paul and his friends on how the war started, however the book’s main idea is not whose fault on how the war even started. Paul experiences personality changes, which he did blame on the war
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With this being said and the age of Paul and the other soldiers, it may have been hard for them to get a clear idea of life. All they know is how to fight and how to survive. The war has stripped the life of them other than what they learned in training. On page 122, Paul talks of childhoods and memories that the soldiers and him have and how they are all they have left. Even then they are painful to think about because they are full of dead faces Therefore rendered a meaningless memory and clouding their minds of the one true objective in war for these young men, which was staying alive to fight another day. Paul also says on page nineteen and twenty how the older men once they get out, they will return back to their families and their previous jobs and lives, whereas the young men of this generation have no life yet to return to. Their dreams and aspirations have been stripped from them and replaced with a gun. For example, Paul's play that he said he had been writing and how later in the war he cannot understand why he wrote it in the first place (pg. 19). This was a common struggle of the young men of the time. A main reason why many of them did not do great things after the war was because they were deprived of everything they knew, except one primal instinct,
With this being said and the age of Paul and the other soldiers, it may have been hard for them to get a clear idea of life. All they know is how to fight and how to survive. The war has stripped the life of them other than what they learned in training. On page 122, Paul talks of childhoods and memories that the soldiers and him have and how they are all they have left. Even then they are painful to think about because they are full of dead faces Therefore rendered a meaningless memory and clouding their minds of the one true objective in war for these young men, which was staying alive to fight another day. Paul also says on page nineteen and twenty how the older men once they get out, they will return back to their families and their previous jobs and lives, whereas the young men of this generation have no life yet to return to. Their dreams and aspirations have been stripped from them and replaced with a gun. For example, Paul's play that he said he had been writing and how later in the war he cannot understand why he wrote it in the first place (pg. 19). This was a common struggle of the young men of the time. A main reason why many of them did not do great things after the war was because they were deprived of everything they knew, except one primal instinct,