Plot Overview
All Quiet on the Western Front is a story based on World War 1 and is narrated by Paul Baumer, a 19 year old volunteer of war. After being told buy his schoolmaster Kantorek that war service is honorable, Paul and his classmates readily become enlisted. After Joseph Behm, dies, they begin to realize the horrors of war. Throughout the war, Paul forms a bond with a group of friends and develops comradship and looks up to Katczinsky as like a father figure. When Paul returns home on a short leave, he realizes that he is not as close to his family as he had been. The war not only changed him, but his entire generation. Paul reduces to animal instincts as he dodges death and stabs a French soldier. After all of his friends had disappeared, died, or gone mentally insane, he was left alone and ironically, dies shortly before the end of the war. The army report on the day he died was, "All quiet on the Western Front."