All Quiet On The Western Front: The War Against Disillusionment

Part I of Essay
In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, the theme of disillusionment is seen and stated over and over by the experiences that Paul and his classmates encountered from their graduation day to the end of World War One. Disillusionment is to lose or lack any faith, hop ....

Part II of Essay
.... only significant things are when his friend and companion Kat died, and in the end Paul himself died. With these events in mind this is how the rest of this is organized: chronologically. Paul and his friends started to lose their innocence the day they enlisted after their school days. In school their master, Kantorek pounded into them an idea that they are men and are obligated to do their duty for the country of Germany. Kantoreks blind patriotism led all the boys, none more than twenty to enlist. He sends them off thinking he did Ge ....