1. Paul: Every time his friends die a part of him dies. He is connected to his friends and they are they to support him. The Lost Generation
2. Kat: Kat is Paul�s best friend and when he dies the last part of Paul dies he has no other reason to live.
3. Albert Kropp: He is Paul�s classmate and is really smart. He is the clearest think of all the classmates and all the friends.
4. Leer: He is one of Paul�s friends and the first one to grow a beard, his showed the people that these boys were still young and couldn�t even grow a beard.
5. Franz Kemmerich: He was one of Paul�s friends and die in the beginning of the story, he gives Muller the boots and after that Paul gets Franz boots.
6. Detering: He was a farmer and a loner, he didn�t really want to be in the war because there was no one to take care of his farm, he ran from the war and no one heard from him again.
7. Kantorek: He loves war so much and persuades his students to join the army but has no clue what being on the front is all about
8. Corporal Himmelstoss: At training camp he is so mean on the soldiers but on the front he is a scared little boy and wants to sit on the front.
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1. The theft of Kemmerich�s watch: This symbolizes that in a war anyone would do anything to get something no matter what they are doing. Kemmerich should have brought the watch into the war because it was a good watch and some one was going to take it.
2. Kemmerich�s death: It showed to Paul that death was a real part to this was and that he and his friends weren�t protected from it.
3. The front: The front I think represented death because it was at the front were most of the men died. The men thought of death every time they were sent to the front.
4. Earth! Earth! Earth!: Earth was the only think that protect them while they were alive, like trenches, and they were in the ground when they died. It covers and protects the soldiers so its like the womb. Or death because it is also the place of death.
5. Coffin stacked against a schoolhouse wall: The soldiers knew that the coffins stacked against the school were for them when they died. Death was coming for them. Foreshadows how many deaths will happen that day.
6. The death of the horses: Horses had nothing to do with this war but were forced onto the battlefield to die. Symbolizes the destructiveness of war
7. Paul dreaming of childhood scenes during a bloody battle : Paul dreamed of childhood a scene because he wants to remember how it was when he wasn�t worried about dying every second and how peaceful his life was before the war. Symbol of escapism.
8. The plight of the infantrymen during battle: The infantrymen during the battle were men that were going to die from this war. Symbolic of the hopeless situation of the hopelessness of war.
9. The young recruits [�the infants�]: The government started to send these infants to die on the front. These young recruits were sent out to the war just for one reason to die. There would be no German people left. Destruction of youth and infants.
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10. The encounter with the French girls: Paul and his friends were too young to have a real relationship with any women when they left. So when he encountered the French girls he didn�t feel any love for. A momentary escape from war. The emptiness of sex without love. And the loss of innocence.
11. Paul�s visit home: When Paul visited home he had so many emotions and he realized that all these people had no idea of what war was. He was missing his life at home and wanted to be with his mom. It symbolizes Paul�s loss of youth and idealism.
12. The Russian prisoners: Paul realized that these prisoners were just like him but from another country and spoke another language. He wondered how people could treated someone so alike, so meanly just because the country they are from. Symbolizes shared humanity.
13. Sharing the goose with Kat: He was sharing food with his best friend in the world and this brought Paul closer to Kat. Kat was his friend and they were going through this war together. A symbol of comradery.
14. The death of Gerard Duval. This personalizes the war for Paul and shared humanity of the destructiveness of war.
15. Paul�s friends� voices in the dark during combat: Paul thinks that his friends are talking to him and this sort of brings him some comfort to know that his friends are still some where near him. Comradery.
16. The death of Kat: The death of Kat totally destroyed Paul because he was the last of his friends to die and now Paul was the only one left and there is no one to share his pain. Kat was so important to Paul that he wanted the whole world to know he was dead even though he knew no one cared.
17. Paul�s death: Paul�s death was Paul letting go. He was at peace, there was no more death and war for him, and he could go join his friends.
18. The boots: Every time a person dies the boots gets a new owner so after Paul�s death, there is no new owner because his friends are all died. They symbolize death and comfort for the soldiers and the soldier�s image.