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Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other—if only he can come out of the war alive.  \nplot summary  \nMore than fifty years after its jolting prose, haunting poetry, and powerful truths slashed their way into the consciousness of a worldwide readership, All Quiet on the Western Front still stands at the forefront of a host of novel s on that most tragic recurrence in the history of human experience: war.  \nThrough the observations of Paul Baumer, a 19-year-old volunteer to the German army during World War I, readers taste war in all its horror. Baumer and his classmates charge fresh out of high school into military service, egged on by parents, teachers, and other one-track-minded adults who are unable to foresee or unwilling to consider the hell into which they are cheering their “Iron Youth.”  \nBut war soon transforms Paul and his comrades into “old folk” and “wild beasts.” Thrust into an open-air asylum reeking of sulfur, excreta, and clotting blood, emblazoned by colorful fireworks that kill, teeming with flesh-eating vermin, these battered, weary, famished friends struggle to make sense of their plight, capturing some measure of peace only when they accept the fact that their reality makes no sense, has no reason. For these soldiers, there is no thrill of victory, only the certainty of one onslaught after another. To look to the future brings them no comfort: they envision no careers, no use for their pre-war education, no romance, no life beyond the battlefield. What lies before them is “the abyss.”  \nWar strips away ideals these boy-men once valued. Their respect for authority is eroded by their disillusionment with the schoolteacher Kantorek who pressed them into service—a laughingstock when forced to don a uniform himself—and is shattered by the contemptible tactics their superior officer Himmelstoss perpetrates in the name of discipline. Even their belief in the sanctity of human life must be compromised every time they kill; this is best illustrated by Paul’s journey from anguish to rationalization of his dispatch of Gerard Duval, the printer turned enemy who leaps into the shell-hole already occupied by Paul.  \nWar destroys these men—even those who survive the bombings, the bullets and bayonets. Yet unless their bodies are annihilated by physical attacks or their sanity exploded by the weight of one too many atrocities, some soldiers manage to maintain vestiges of humanness: their caring for animals (Detering, the farmer turned warrior, rails against the army for its  \nRandom House Academic Resources, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019  \n[HIGH SCHOOL:](HIGH SCHOOL: www.randomhouse.com/highschool)[ www.randomhouse.com/highschool](HIGH SCHOOL: www.randomhouse.com/highschool) • [www.rhimagazine.com](www.rhimagazine.com)[ ](www.rhimagazine.com)[QUERIES:](QUERIES: highschool@penguinrandomhouse.com)[ highschool@penguinrandomhouse.com](QUERIES: highschool@penguinrandomhouse.com)  \n2  \nTeacher’s Guide: All Quiet on the Western Front  \n“vilest baseness” in exposing innocent horses to slaughter; the group shares its once-in-a-wartime feast with a little grey cat); compassion for each other (Baumer, little more than a child himself, comforts a terrified, crying recruit and literally covers his behind); their sense of fun ","cbCaiafdk8n5jFlr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiafdk8n5jFlr","pdf",299905,"English","# about this book\n# plot summary\n# about the author","[{\"question\":\"Who is the main character and what happens to him early in the war?\",\"answer\":\"Paul Baumer enlists with his classmates in the German army. 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