Paul appears to have an infelicitous fate that is written out for him as soon as he joins the army. Right in the beginning of “All Quiet On The Western Front”, Paul is doomed to an undesired fate. However, near the middle-end of the book he seems to gain hope for his future. Erich Maria Remarque, the author of this novel does a good job demonstrating how Paul lives during the war. When Paul is at war the audience is given the sense that he is sentenced to a life of misery that one cannot escape. But after a terrifying encounter that changes him, he is given a sense of hope. Paul is doomed from the beginning of the novel, but the actions of the war give him hope for the future. Paul is doomed to a poor future when he is at war. Paul begins losing his sense of humanity. He seems to only view the facts as being …show more content…
When Kemmerich is lying in the bed dying, Paul and Müler only think about the boots that they could have once Kemmerich passes. “We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are scarce.” (pg 21) When Paul leaves the hospital after Kemmerich’s death, he seems to lose his sense of humanity and becomes more animalistic. Another moment of Paul’s future is when they are fighting, after the battle Paul states that they seem lost. They are still children and yet they have seen and experienced more than the average man at a much older age. Paul and his small group of comrades realized that they have no hope for their future and they have no idea what they could do after the war. They are stuck in the middle of being a child and an adult. “We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men… I believe we are lost.” (pg 123) When Paul returns home because he is on leave, the world is so much different then he remembered. Paul realizes while on leave that even when the war is over, he