Tucker
Muse
Period
3
May
7, 2004
SYMBOLISM
Directions: For each event or character listed, state the symbolic meaning and offer a supporting reference from the text. (18 points).
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CHARACTER SYMBOLISM Supporting Reference
1. Paul
Paul the youth of a dieing nation when he dies right before the war ends pg.
2. Kat
Represents the older male fighting for his country that is trying to make it for his family
3. Albert Kropp
He is a person who always strives to do his best. Unfortunately the war destroys him.
4. Leer
He is our normal teen being obsessed with women. First to have a sexual experience
5. Franz Kemmerich
Franz Symbolizes the destructiveness of war. He represents the youth of there lost dreams because he dies for a politicians fight
6. Detering
He represents the simple man that is destroyed by war. He lives on a farm and a simple life.
7. Kantorek
Kantorek represents the nationalism in the youth and the good of the country. He is symbolic of generational betrail
8. Corporal Himmelstoss
Corporal Himmelstoss represents the power hungry leaders and how it corrupts
Scene or Situation SYMBOLISM Supporting Reference
1. the theft of
Kemmerich’s watch
Symbolizes the time of life and the theft the watch symbolizes the taking of life.
2. Kemmerich’s death
The loss of youths dream and the destructiveness of war
3. the front
The two boundaries between life and death. Its like a vortex that sucks you in.
4. Earth! Earth! Earth!
It symbolizes friend mother brother, savior of a soldier, and lastly death.
5. coffin stacked against
a school-house wall
The death of the youth the next generation. The youth will no longer learn but die instead
6. the death of the
The total destructiveness of war because horses were said shouldn’t be in battles.
7. Paul dreaming of
childhoos scenes during
a bloody battle
He dreams so he feels sheltered from the war.
8. the plight of the infantrymen during battle
It represents chance getting killed by there own shells
9. the young recruits
[“the infants”]
The sending of infants/ the next generation to be basically slaughtered and showing how the men are still children and their dreams
Scene or Situation SYMBOLISM Supporting Reference
10. the encounter with the French girls
Paul misses out on love the war causes disconnection from emotions.
11. Paul’s visit home
His life in war has changed what he feels like. Also shows destructiveness of war. The war has made him uncomfortable around people who have not been fighting.
12. the Russian prisoners
Like Paul they were suffering
13. sharing the goose with Kat
How the war can build friendships and talk to people you would never have done in real life
14. the death of Gerard Duval
It makes him feels like he is a murder.
15. Paul’s friends’ voices in the dark during combat
How his friends can still be by your side even when they are standing in front of death
16. the death of Kat
Total hopelessness, nothing is worth living for anymore total hopelessness and despair
17. Paul’s death
The end of the war and the end of his youths generation. The finally of war.
18. the boots
the boots represent the cheapness of human life in the war. Each person who inherits the boots gets killed A good pair of boots is more valuable and more durable than a human life. The question of who will inherit them continually overshadows their owners' deaths.