Coping with Horrific reality of war
“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow.” (Pg. 263) All Quiet on the Western Front is a surreal story of a young man named Paul Baumer, who was tricked into war by his teacher Kantock who gave a powerful “patriotic speech about how all these young men in his class can become heroes and grow into strong men if they joined the World War I. These young innocent boys were convinced and went to fight for the “Motherland.” So they went to basic training. Quickly after joining the military Paul and his classmates realize that it’s not all what Mr. Kantock made it out to be. They were pushed hard by their most hated Corporal Himmelstoss, who was very power hungry small man, who was once their postman. They were pushed hard in basic training but it was nothing compared to the horrific things they were about to experience on the Western Front. When the young men arrived to the Western Front they immediately figured out that the war isn’t really as “Glorious” as it was previously explained. Paul and his classmates were thrown into the battle field and “”””””””””””””. They got a rude, scary, horrific awakening by the war. There is “nothing heroic about …show more content…
These men would often go days without food and when they got it, it was not your five start meals. The men even got into a fight with one of the chiefs because the chief didn’t want to give them their food for one-hundred and fifty men because only about half of them were dead. So the remaining men rightfully believed that they deserved all the food. In the hard times when they were without food, their very resourceful, older friend Kat would frequently find food to help feed his fellow comrades. The strong comradeship these men had for each other was