The company rests after the battle
The novel tells about soldiers of one company. Omitting the details, we have compiled a brief summary. “All Quiet on the Western Front” is a work that mainly describes a company, which included the main characters - former classmates. It has already lost almost half of its members. The company is resting 9 km from the front line after meeting with the British guns - “meat grinders”. Because of the losses suffered during the shelling, the soldiers receive double portions of smoke and food. They smoke, eat, sleep and play cards. Paul, Kropp and Müller head to their wounded classmate. These four soldiers ended up in one company, persuaded by their class teacher Kantorek, with his “sincere voice.”
The company is resting
In the first chapter, the author shows the real life of soldiers - unheroic, terrifying. He emphasizes the extent to which the cruelty of war changes people - moral principles are lost, values are lost. This is the generation that was destroyed by the war, even those who escaped the shells. The novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” begins with these words.
The summary of the first chapter begins with the fact that German soldiers are resting after a difficult battle. Out of a company of 150 people, only 80 soldiers returned from the front line. Paul Bäumer, on whose behalf the story is told, talks about his comrades. He, Leer, Müller and Kropp were nineteen years old. They joined the army voluntarily.
Rested soldiers go to breakfast. The cook prepared food for the entire company - 150 people. They want to take extra helpings of their fallen comrades. The main concern of the cook is not to give out anything beyond the norm. And only after a heated argument and the intervention of the company commander does the cook distribute all the food.
Kemmerich, one of Paul's classmates, was hospitalized with a thigh wound. The friends go to the infirmary, where they are informed that the guy’s leg has been amputated. Muller, seeing his strong English boots, argues that a one-legged man does not need them. The wounded man writhes in unbearable pain, and, in exchange for cigarettes, his friends persuade one of the orderlies to give their friend an injection of morphine. They left there with heavy hearts.
Kantorek, their teacher who persuaded them to join the army, sent them a pompous letter. He calls them “iron youth.” But the guys are no longer touched by words about patriotism. They unanimously accuse the class teacher of exposing them to the horrors of war. This is how the first chapter ends. Its summary. “All Quiet on the Western Front” reveals chapter by chapter the characters, feelings, aspirations, and dreams of these young guys who find themselves face to face with the war.
How Joseph Bem was killed
Joseph Boehm, the hero of the work “All Quiet on the Western Front” (we describe the summary), did not want to go to war, but, fearing refusal to cut off all paths for himself, he signed up, like others, as a volunteer. He was one of the first to be killed. Because of the wounds he received in his eyes, he was unable to find shelter. The soldier lost his bearings and was eventually shot. Kantorek, a former mentor to soldiers, sends his regards to Kropp in a letter, calling his comrades “iron guys.” So many Kantoreks fool young people.
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Death of Kimmerich
Kimmerich, another of his classmates, was found by his comrades with an amputated leg in a field hospital. His mother asked Paul to look after him, because Franz Kimmerich was “just a child.” But how can this be done on the front lines? One look at Kimmerich is enough to understand that this soldier is hopeless. While he was unconscious, someone stole his favorite watch, received as a gift. There were, however, some good leather English knee-length boots left, which Franz no longer needed. Kimmerich dies in front of his comrades. The soldiers, depressed by this, return to the barracks with Franz's boots. Kropp becomes hysterical on the way. After reading the novel on which the summary is based (“All Quiet on the Western Front”), you will learn the details of these and other events.
Remarque “All Quiet on the Western Front” - summary
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The height of the First World War. Germany is already at war against France, Russia, England and America; Paul Bäumer, on whose behalf the story is told, represents his fellow soldiers. Schoolchildren, peasants, fishermen, and artisans of different ages gathered here.
The company has lost almost half of its strength and is resting nine kilometers from the front line after meeting with English guns - “meat grinders”.
Due to losses during shelling, they receive double portions of food and smoke. The soldiers sleep off, eat their fill, smoke and play cards. Müller, Kropp and Paul go to their wounded classmate. The four of them ended up in one company, persuaded by the “sincere voice” of class teacher Kantorek. Joseph Bem did not want to go to war, but, fearing “to cut off all paths for himself,” he also signed up as a volunteer.
He was one of the first to be killed. Due to the wounds he received in the eyes, he could not find shelter, lost his bearings and was shot dead. And in a letter to Kropp, their former mentor Kantorek conveys his greetings, calling them “iron guys.” This is how thousands of Kantoreks fool the youth.
The guys find their other classmate, Kimmerich, in a field hospital with an amputated leg. Franz Kimmerich's mother asked Paul to look after him, "after all, he is just a child." But how to do this on the front line? One look at Franz is enough to understand that he is hopeless. While Franz was unconscious, his watch was stolen, his favorite watch received as a gift. True, there were still excellent English knee-length leather boots that he no longer needed. He dies in front of his comrades. Depressed, they return to the barracks with Franz's boots. On the way, Kropp becomes hysterical.
There are new recruits in the barracks. The dead are replaced by the living. One of the recruits says that they were fed only rutabaga. The breadwinner Katchinsky (aka Kat) feeds the boy beans and meat. Kropp offers his own version of waging war: let the generals fight themselves, and the winner will declare his country the winner. And so others are fighting for them, who did not start the war and who do not need it at all.
The company with replenishment is sent to the front line for sapper work. Experienced Kat teaches recruits how to recognize shots and explosions and hide from them. Listening to the “vague rumble of the front,” he assumes that at night “they will be given a light.”
Paul reflects on the behavior of soldiers on the front line, how they are all instinctively connected to the ground, into which they want to press themselves when shells whistle. She appears to the soldier as “a silent, reliable intercessor; with a groan and a cry, he confides his fear and his pain to her, and she accepts them... in those moments when he clings to her, squeezing her long and tightly in his arms, when the fear of death is under fire makes him bury his face and his whole body deeply in her, she is his only Friend, brother, his mother.”
As Kat had foreseen, the shelling was of the highest density.
The pop of chemical shells. Gongs and metal rattles announce: “Gas, Gas!” All hope lies in the tightness of the mask. "Soft Jellyfish" fills all the funnels. We need to get up, but there is shelling. Page 1 ]
Replenishment of the company with recruits
Arriving at the barracks, the soldiers see that they have been replenished with new recruits. The living replaced the dead. One of the new arrivals says that they ate only rutabaga. Kat (the breadwinner Katchinsky) feeds the guy beans and meat. Kropp offers his own version of how combat operations should be conducted. Let the generals fight on their own, and the one who wins will declare his country the winner of the war. Otherwise it turns out that others are fighting for them, those who do not need the war at all, who did not start it.
The company, replenished with recruits, goes to the front line for sapper work. The recruits are taught by the experienced Kat, one of the main characters in the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” (the summary only briefly introduces readers to him). He explains to recruits how to recognize explosions and shots and how to avoid them. He assumes, having listened to the “roar of the front,” that they will “be given a light at night.”
Reflecting on the behavior of soldiers on the front line, Paul says that they are all instinctively connected to their land. You want to squeeze into it when shells whistle overhead. The earth appears to the soldier as a reliable intercessor; he confides his pain and fear to her with a cry and a groan, and she accepts them. She is his mother, brother, only Friend.
Night shelling
As Kat thought, the shelling was very dense. The pops of exploding chemical shells are heard. Metal rattles and gongs announce: “Gas, gas!” The soldiers have only one hope - the tightness of the mask. All funnels are filled with “soft jellyfish”. We need to get up, but there is artillery fire there.
The comrades count how many people from their class are left alive. 7 killed, 1 in a mental hospital, 4 wounded - a total of 8. Respite. A wax lid is attached above the candle. Lice are dumped there. During this activity, the soldiers reflect on what each of them would do if there was no war. The former postman, and now the main torturer of the guys during the Himmelstoss exercises, arrives at the unit. Everyone has a grudge against him, but his comrades have not yet decided how to take revenge on him.
The fighting continues
The preparations for the offensive are further described in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque paints the following picture: coffins smelling of resin are stacked in 2 tiers near the school. Corpse rats have bred in the trenches, and they cannot be dealt with. It is impossible to deliver food to the soldiers due to the shelling. One of the recruits has a seizure. He wants to jump out of the dugout. The French attack, and the soldiers are pushed back to a reserve line. After a counterattack, they return with the spoils of booze and canned food. There is continuous shelling from both sides. The dead are placed in a large crater. They are already lying here in 3 layers. All living things became stupefied and exhausted. Himmelstoss is hiding in a trench. Paul forces him to attack.
Only 32 people remained from a company of 150 soldiers. They are being taken further to the rear than before. Soldiers smooth out the nightmares of the front with irony. This helps to escape from insanity.
Erich Maria Remarque "All Quiet on the Western Front"
A sharply anti-war work, and one gets the clear feeling that it was written from the eyewitness’s own vivid impressions. It’s simply difficult to imagine that it is possible to depict even more vividly and clearly all the horror of war that the heroes of this work had to endure. And everything is written in simple everyday language, without inappropriate pretentiousness or twisting details, and which only emphasizes the artistic skill of the author. (Here, it’s probably worth saying a special thank you to the translator.)
Unfortunately, as the history of the author’s work and this work in particular shows, all the author’s efforts to convey to the world, to the rear, to the offices of officials and rulers, to descendants, the smell and horror of the past and what he experienced, to instill lasting immunity against repetition of this in the future, went to waste , and this is not the author’s fault; he fulfilled his duty then and later did everything he could. The book was written by a German after the events of the First World War and was first published in Germany. Almost 10 years after the War, in 1929, the publisher formed the opinion that in the German country the memories of the war were still so fresh that no one would want to read the book and it would not be in demand. He turned out to be radically wrong: they read it, and the book became a sensation, and the effect of reading it turned out to be zero... - Ten years later, Germany, inspired by the new Fuhrer, gets into a new hellish cauldron of military madness, many times more destructive and larger than the previous one, and drags the rest of the world follows. Perhaps the Book had some influence outside of Germany (and besides the USSR, which was also intensively preparing for a new repartition of the world), since most other countries reacted sluggishly to Hitler’s actions and essentially slept through the moment when they could try to nip the war in the bud , costing orders of magnitude less casualties.
Almost 100 years later from the events in the book, the world is again on the brink of a new global bloodshed; at the time of writing this review, dozens of countries are already involved in Syria alone, and the number of civilian victims is confidently approaching half a million, not counting other local wars, of which stick out the ears of the same new possible Fuhrer, who believed in his own rightness and his own right to reshape the world at will, a country that, unlike Germany, which at least learned its lesson the second time, did not make anything out of the two world wars conclusions.
It is very difficult to read the lines of this novel, very difficult and scary, especially if you realize that even now there is a real war going on and it is not so far away, and there are sitting in the trenches and dugouts exactly the same guys as Remarque’s heroes, starving, being maimed, watching how their friends die and shake their fists in their hearts from impotent anger at those whose irrepressible ambitions give rise to the horror of war in our seemingly progressive time. And I don’t understand how this book can leave anyone indifferent and not touch the soul at all, how this horror can be called “banal truths.” This is probably the trouble: for some, probably in order to penetrate, so that the insides of horses, the lungs burned by poison, the deaths of tens and hundreds of thousands of people do not seem banal, so that this hell breaks through the layers left behind from the sucked and invented events of Sapkowski’s Witchers, Thrones Martin and other consumer goods of a worse rank, you have to get drunk on front-line land under fire yourself.
I must say that I had not read Remarque before, and about the First World War, of the ones I read, I can only name another famous novel - “The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schweik.” But, although the “guts and shit” in both novels look the same, Remarque’s novel made a much stronger impression on me, remaining serious and not going into military satire and laughter through tears, although I would not call Hasek’s novel banal. It’s just that these works are in different genre categories and the talent of their authors is also different, I don’t want to disparage Hasek at all, whose post-war syndrome resulted in a satirical distortion of reality according to the principle “those who served in the army don’t laugh in the circus,” but I liked/affected Remarque more. Although both novels, in theory, serve the same purpose - to open the reader’s eyes and instill in him a rejection of mutual murder, no matter how unrealistic this is...
Thanks to this book, it turns out that 100 years ago the war already had a modern appearance: trenches, dugouts, hours-long shelling, gases, grenades, air raids, but the tanks are still a little archaic, but also instill fear; — I used to somehow perceive the First World War a little differently. The author writes that on both sides there are the same people - villagers, workers, others, who equally want to live and are equally reduced to a bestial state, ready to rip each other’s throats out in order to survive, whereas just yesterday they could sit calmly and friendly together over a beer in some or a diner, everyone has families, children and everyone equally wants to live. The author says that this is an absurd situation, since a German mountain cannot quarrel with a French mountain and a wheat field on French soil cannot offend a similar field on German soil. But the author is a little disingenuous, because immediately getting to the rear, in his own Germany, he quotes the mischievous mood prevailing there among the local burghers, as if everyone had offended us (Germany) and now the German soldiers must show it! and don't stop all the way to Paris. After all, it is thanks to their (German) ambitions that guys like the heroes of this book should die, and on the other hand, exactly the same, but French guys are dying. After all, no matter how many times the author is right, that the soldiers on both sides in his book do not want to fight and just want to live, but thanks to the sucked-out Aryan chosenness of some, others are forced to stand up and die defending their land, in principle, as in almost any other war ...
Through the lips of his hero on the pages of this work, the author promises to do everything, if he survives, in order to convey to people this absurdity and horror, everything so that this cannot happen again. The author kept his promise and did what he could in this vein, and it is not his fault that all his (and not only his) efforts went in vain...
Paul goes home
In the office where Paul was summoned, he is given travel documents and a vacation certificate. He looks at the “border pillars” of his youth from the window of his carriage with excitement. Here, finally, is his house. Paul's mother is sick. Showing feelings is not customary in their family, and the mother’s words “my dear boy” say a lot. The father wants to show his friends his son in uniform, but Paul does not want to talk to anyone about the war. The soldier craves solitude and finds it over a glass of beer in quiet corners of local restaurants or in his own room, where the atmosphere is familiar to him to the smallest detail. His German teacher invites him to the beer hall. Here, patriotic teachers, acquaintances of Paul, talk brilliantly about how to “beat up the Frenchman.” Paul is treated to cigars and beer, while plans are made on how to take over Belgium, large areas of Russia and the coal areas of France. Paul goes to the barracks where the soldiers were trained 2 years ago. Mittelstedt, his classmate, who was sent here from the infirmary, reports the news that Kantorek has been taken into the militia. According to his own scheme, the class teacher is trained by a career military man.
Paul is the main character of the work “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Remarque writes about him further that the guy goes to Kimmerich’s mother and tells her about the instant death of her son from a wound to the heart. The woman believes his convincing story.
Paul shares cigarettes with Russian prisoners
And again the barracks, where the soldiers trained. Nearby there is a large camp where Russian prisoners of war are kept. Paul is on duty here. Looking at all these people with the beards of the apostles and childish faces, the soldier reflects on who turned them into murderers and enemies. He breaks his cigarettes and passes them in half to the Russians through the net. Every day they sing dirges, burying the dead. Remarque describes all this in detail in his work (“All Quiet on the Western Front”). The summary continues with the arrival of the Kaiser.
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- In Russian translations, the novel was published under both of these titles, but the more common version is “All Quiet on the Western Front.”
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- Remarque, Erich Maria // Dictionary of modern quotations / compiled by K. V. Dushenko - M.: Eksmo, 2006.
- Retold by A. N. Kuzin.
No change on the Western Front.
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Arrival of the Kaiser
Paul is sent back to his unit. Here he meets his old friends. They are driven around the parade ground for a week. On the occasion of the arrival of such an important person, soldiers are given a new uniform. The Kaiser doesn't impress them. Disputes are beginning again about who is the initiator of wars and why they are needed. Take, for example, the French worker. Why would this man fight? The authorities decide all this. Unfortunately, we cannot dwell in detail on the author’s digressions when compiling a summary of the story “All Quiet on the Western Front.”
Paul kills a French soldier
There are rumors that they will be sent to fight in Russia, but the soldiers are sent to the front line, into the thick of it. The guys go on reconnaissance. Night, shooting, rockets. Paul is lost and does not understand which direction their trenches are located. He spends the day in a crater, in mud and water, pretending to be dead. Paul has lost his pistol and is preparing a knife in case of hand-to-hand combat. A lost French soldier falls into his crater. Paul rushes at him with a knife. When night falls, he returns to the trenches. Paul is shocked - for the first time in his life he killed a man, and yet he, in essence, did nothing to him. This is an important episode of the novel, and the reader should certainly be informed about it when writing a summary. All Quiet on the Western Front (its fragments sometimes serve an important semantic function) is a work that cannot be fully understood without paying attention to the details.
Feast in Time of Plague
Soldiers are sent to guard a food warehouse. From their squad, only 6 people survived: Deterling, Leer, Tjaden, Müller, Albert, Kat - all here. In the village, these heroes of the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Remarque, briefly presented in this article, discover a reliable concrete basement. Mattresses and even an expensive bed made of mahogany, with feather beds and lace are brought from the homes of escaped residents. Kat and Paul go on reconnaissance around this village. It is under heavy artillery fire. In the barn they discover two frolicking piglets. There's a big treat ahead. The warehouse is dilapidated, the village is burning due to shelling. Now you can get anything you want from it. Passing drivers and security guards take advantage of this. Feast in Time of Plague.
Newspapers report: "All quiet on the Western Front"
The summary of the chapters is already coming to an end. Let us describe the final events of the novel.
Maslenitsa ended in a month. Once again the soldiers are sent to the front line. The marching column is being fired upon. Paul and Albert end up in the monastery infirmary in Cologne. From here the dead are constantly being taken away and the wounded are being brought back again. Albert's leg is amputated all the way down. After recovery, Paul is again on the front line. The position of the soldiers is hopeless. French, English and American regiments advance on the battle-weary Germans. Muller was killed by a flare. Kat, wounded in the shin, is carried out from under fire on his back by Paul. However, while running, Kata is wounded in the neck by a shrapnel, and he still dies. Of all his classmates who went to war, Paul was the only one left alive. There is talk everywhere that a truce is approaching.
In October 1918, Paul was killed. At this time it was quiet, and military reports came in as follows: “No change on the Western Front.” The summary of the chapters of the novel that interests us ends here.
All Quiet on the Western Front summary
novel All Quiet on the Western Front was written in 1929. The book tells about the First World War, which brought a lot of suffering, as well as about the “lost generation” of young people who were unable to find themselves in a peaceful life. To better prepare for a literature lesson, we recommend reading online a summary of “All Quiet on the Western Front.”
The main characters are Paul Bäumer - a young soldier, yesterday's schoolboy, to whom the whole truth of the war is revealed. Other characters Albert Kropp, Muller the Fifth, Leer, Franz Kemmerich, Joseph Boehm are Paul's classmates, who all went to the front together, ending up in the same company. Stanislav Katchinsky is Paul’s colleague, a clever and cunning forty-year-old man. Tjaden, Haye, Detering are Paul's friends, his colleagues. Kantorek is the class teacher of Paul and his classmates, the main war agitator among young people. Himmelstoss is a corporal, a despotic commander of the squads in which Paul and his comrades underwent military training. Summary Chapter 1 The story is told from the perspective of a young German soldier, Paul Bäumer. Together with his school friends - Albert Kropp, Müller V and Leer - he is resting nine kilometers from the front line. They had to survive heavy fire from heavy English guns, the so-called “meat grinders,” which killed half of their company. Now they eat their fill, sleep, play cards, enjoying a little respite. The rumble of the front comes “very faintly, like a distant, distant thunderstorm.” Friends receive a letter from their class teacher Kantorek. It was under his leadership that the entire class, in formation, “went to the district military department” to sign up as volunteers for the front. Only one boy from the entire class - the good-natured fat man Joseph Boehm - refused to go to war, and it was he who became its first victim. After the death of a classmate, the boys' usual worldview changed forever. If earlier they recognized the authority of the likes of Kantorek, now they realized that they only “knew how to speak beautifully and had a certain dexterity.” The friends head to the field hospital to see their friend Kemmerich. He complains of “terrible pain in his foot,” which was amputated yesterday. The guy looks very bad, and it becomes clear to everyone that “Kemmerich will never leave this room.” Kropp experiences “front-line hysteria.”
Chapter 2 Paul reflects on the impact the war had on the young soldiers. Their “previous life was abruptly interrupted” without any assistance from them. Unlike older people, they have neither a profession, nor wives, nor children - “these bonds are already so strong that war cannot break them.” Apart from school and frivolous hobbies, twenty-year-old youths who found themselves at the front “have not yet had time to experience anything.” The main character recalls how they were taught the art of war for ten weeks, and during this time they “managed to re-educate them more thoroughly than in ten school years.” Endless drill made them callous and ruthless, but it was these qualities that were most useful to them in the trenches. “The only good thing that war has produced” is a sense of camaraderie. Kemmerich dies in front of Paul, who tries to cheer him up a little. Before his death, he asks to give his new shoes to Muller.
Chapter 3 Reinforcements arrive to the company. Most of them are old-timers, but there are also very young guys among them, younger than Paul and his classmates. Katchinsky offers the newcomers beans, and makes it clear that next time they will have to pay for them with cigarettes or tobacco. Katchinsky is a rare rogue, but “it’s good to be friends with him.” When needed, “as if from underground, as if by magic,” he gets food, firewood and everything he needs.
Chapter 4 Friends go “to the front line for sapper work.” The front is restless, “gunshots can clearly be heard from the other side.” After several hours of hard work, the soldiers lie down for a short nap. Soon the shelling begins, and in the intervals between shell explosions, “someone’s screams can be heard.” The British begin a gas attack. All thoughts are about one thing - is the mask airtight? Death from gas poisoning is painful - within a few days, victims “die from suffocation and vomiting, coughing up pieces of their burnt out lungs.”
Chapter 5 In the barracks, friends dream about what they will do after the end of the war. Haye first wants to screw the “strong woman”, and then remain in long-term service as a non-commissioned officer. Tjaden plans to beat up Himmelstoss, an incredibly cruel corporal who bullied his friends in the barracks. Soon such an opportunity comes his way. Kropp comes to Tjaden's aid, and for disturbing the peace, the friends receive a day of arrest. Meanwhile, Katchinsky and Paul manage to steal a goose from the headquarters poultry house. They cook a roast and treat it to their arrested comrades.
Chapter 6 A particular danger at the front are the so-called corpse rats - large, nasty, with beardless muzzles and long bare tails. They eat up the soldiers' bread, but no one raises the hand to throw it away. You have to cut off the “gnawed places”. These rats are so bold that they even attack local dogs and cats. The soldiers ambush them, but to no avail.
Chapter 7 Paul discusses how war changes a person's preferences. The true happiness of a soldier is “delicious food and relaxation.” A person gets used to everything, “even to a trench.” On the front line, people become animals - because this is the only way to survive. On vacation, they turn “into cheap wits and lazy people.” Such a metamorphosis occurs against the will. Feelings that “beautify a person in peacetime” are inappropriate and false in war. Paul receives two weeks of leave, at the end of which he “must report for courses in one of the rear camps.” When meeting his family, he cannot hold back his tears. The young man learns that his mother has cancer. The father begins to ask Paul in detail about the war. He is very proud of his hero son. It’s very difficult for the guy to leave his father’s house - he regrets that he got a vacation.
Chapter 8 Paul arrives at the rear camp, where company training takes place every day. Nearby there is a Russian prisoner of war camp. Paul is sad to watch “how they beg for something to eat.” He sympathizes with good-natured peasants suffering from bloody diarrhea. The hero understands that the Russians and Germans became enemies on someone’s orders, and could just as easily have been friends. He becomes afraid to “think this thought through to the end.”
Chapters 9-10 Returning to the front, Paul finds all his friends alive. Soon they are sent to the front lines. After the vacation, the hero “always somehow feels embarrassed in front of his comrades,” and he volunteers to go on reconnaissance. Finding himself in a large shell crater, he pretends to be dead. Soon, someone's body falls into the crater, and Paul, without thinking twice, plunges a knife into it. Having come to his senses, he bandages the wounds of the wounded Frenchman, helps him drink, but he still dies. It is very difficult for Paul to cope with his death. In the evening he breaks through to his people. Soldiers guard a village where officers' food supplies were discovered. They eat to their heart's content and enjoy the peace, but after three weeks the happiness comes to an end. During the retreat, Paul and Kropp are wounded. The hero is very scared - “in field hospitals, doctors amputate arms and legs without hesitation.” The doctor removes a fragment from Paul's leg. The friends manage to agree to be sent home on the same train. “Albert has a fever” on the train, and they are going to drop him off at the first station. Paul decides not to leave his friend, and they end up together in the hospital of a Catholic monastery. Albert's "leg is taken away entirely, all the way to the top." In despair, he is ready to shoot himself. Paul’s “bones just don’t want to grow together,” but after a while he begins to walk. After discharge, he is “granted leave”, after which he again goes to the front. Detering was caught by gendarmes when he fled "under the influence of an acute attack of homesickness." Muller is killed by a flare. Kat died from a shrapnel in the neck, Leer from a fatal wound in the thigh. Paul was the last of all his classmates to die - “on one of those days when it was so quiet and calm on the entire front that military reports consisted of only one phrase: “No change on the Western Front” ...
Conclusion Using the example of the main characters, the author shows that even all the horrors of war are not capable of destroying a person’s best qualities: mercy, loyalty and love for one’s neighbor. After reading the retelling of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” we recommend reading the novel in its full version.
