Soldiers
Symbols and Themes
Classmates
At the Front
World War I
Potpourri
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A 19 year old skinny locksmith.
Who is Tjaden?
A large peat-digger who wants to stay in the army after the war.
Who is Haie Westus?
A postman in peace time.
Who is Himmelstoss?
A cobbler.
Who is Kat?
Farmer.
Who is Detering?
The death of the horses and the crater holes represent this.
What is Destruction of nature?
Paul says soldiers become animals at the front, representing this theme.
What is the dehumanization of man/ animal nature of man?
Symbol of death own by Kemmerich, Muller, Paul, and finally Tjaden.
What are boots?
Term used when Paul returns on leave and feels like he doesn’t belong anymore.
What is Alienation?
Death of the soldiers, and the soldiers inability to adapt to life after the war is this theme.
What is the destruction of man/soul?
The narrator of All Quiet on the Western Front.
Who is Paul Baumer?
Wanted Kemmerich’s boots after his death…dies by being shot by a flare gun.
Who is Muller?
Has a full beard, first of class to have sex, and dies by a leg wound.
Who is Leer?
Daily Double!!
The only classmate to survive.
Who is Albert Kropp?
Died before the novel began by being shot in the eye.
Who is Josef Behm?
The large animals that consumed the corpses.
What are rats?
School teacher who encouraged his students to enlist patriotically at once.
Who is Kantorek?
Worst horror of the war, cause searing of the lungs.
What is Poison Gas?
Paul kills this man with a knife in a shell hole.
Who is Gerald Duval?
The last soldier to die in the novel.
Who is Paul Baumer?
Author of the novel who fought in WWI.
Who is Erich Remarque?
What does Paul value the most of the things that come from the war.
What is Comradeship/ Friendship?
The tiny animals that bite and bother the soldiers.
What are Lice?
Paul comments that the Russian prisoners of war look like this animal.
What are St. Bernard dogs?
The assassination of this man triggered World War I.
Who is Archduke Ferdinand?
Believed to be the author’s real last name.
What is Krammer?
Ironically saves Paul during the bombardment in the cememtary.
What is a coffin?
When the young recruit inhales the poison gas, Kat suggest doing this.
What is shooting him?
Style of warfare that characterized World War I.
What is Trench Warfare?
The ruler of Germany, inspected the troops in Chapter 10.
Who is Kaiser Wilhelm II?
Final Jeopardy
The four surviving characters of the novel. Final Jeopardy The four surviving characters of the novel.
Himmelstoss Tjaden Detering Albert Kropp.