All Quiet On The Western Front Animalism Analysis

Everyone who fights in the war has to have animal instincts and basically shut off their emotions. Many moments of being animalistic are shown in All Quiet On the Western Front. One big moment in the book where Paul had to act animalistically is when he killed Gerard Duvall, Paul even says â€Å"I do not think at all, I make no decision-I strike madly at home, and feel only how the body suddenly convulses then becomes limp, and collapses† (Remarque 216). Paul did not even have to think about killing a man at this point, it was his instinct to immediately attack him. That is something that is animalistic and not totally humane. Also, when they make an attack earlier on, Paul says â€Å"No longer do we lie helpless, waiting on the scaffold, we can†¦show more content†¦Kropp does not really feel he has many reasons to keep living, so he decided that if he will have to suffer from the war even more, by losing an entire limb, he doesnt really need to live. The war has rea lly messed with him, because he is ready to kill himself if he feel he needs to. But not everyone who had been affected by the war ends up like how Kropp is. Detering went through something totally different compared to what Kropp went through. On page 275 Detering saw a cherry tree, which reminded him of his home and farm, and he started to want to leave, and on page 276, Paul noticed he was being a little strange and in the book it said â€Å"In order to turn him away from his thoughts, I asked for a piece of bread. He gave it to me without a murmur. That was suspicious, for he is usually tight fisted† (Remarque 276). Detering had been reminded of his home, and he started to miss it. That began to change him, and soon after Paul got suspicious of what he was doing, Detering left. He was captured soon after he fled from the war, and we can only assume he was killed. Remarque wrote the book for a reason, and even explained part of the reason why he wrote the book in a paragraph before chapter one. In the end of that paragraph, he wrote, â€Å"It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who †¦ were destroyed by the war† (Remarque). Remarque wrote the book in order to share how the war had changed the soldiers. This idea is clearer