The Iron Youth of Paul Baumer

all(prenominal) Quiet on the west contendd Front focuses on the compact youth  of capital of Minnesota Baumer, his classmates and their full(a) generation of teenage boys who occupy to fight on the German side of World state of war I. These issue men visualize the war full of warmth and national pride, but short realize that life on the front lines is no amour c are they were told or how they imagined it to be, resulting in them cosmos finished from either the material pressures of the war, or the mental core they were forced to carry, thus an wide generation was lost.\nBoth soldiers and war were perceived at this date as heroic and excellent by their society, which encouraged these newfangled men to join the array unitary way or another. They were expected to go to war, right away defeat the enemy, and return nucleotide as victorious heros. Unfortunately, before long after experiencing life in the trenches they realize that the romantic ideas they believed slightly the war were terribly wrong. alone of these previous beliefs are destroyed as soon as they encounter the harsh earth they were now apart of. Paul describes this life consisting of, Shells, gas clouds, and flotillas of tanks shattering, corroding, death. Dysentery, influenza, typhus fever scalding, choking death. Trenches, hospitals,[and] the common heartbreaking  and in Pauls opinion in that respect [were] no other possibilities  (283). These young men began to question the aspire for their deaths and are forced to smother their emotions in order to stick around mentally stable, but counterbalance they eventually lose hope. An inviolate generation on both(prenominal) sides of the war is lost this way, as they develop their sense of individuation after being unornamented of their innocence and humanity. The only thing this generation is left with are the thoughts of survival by both means necessary and the soused bonds that they have built with one anoth er, which too does not furthermost for long.\nIn the beginning of Remarques clean the audience is introduced to a gathering of carefree teenage ...