The Main Cause Of Death In War By Paul Baumer

In World War 1, artillery weapons such as: rifles and machine guns, Artillery is a class of large military weapons built to fire munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry small arms caused 70% of all battle casualties, this was the main cause of deaths in war(s). Paul Baumer is an iconic 19 year old figure who was sent out into the front line that was exposed to artillery fire, whilst watching his best of friends die he begins to lose hope. Throughout the story his actions changed from a wide-eyed teenager who didn't know what he was getting into, to a shattered young man by the end of the war.
At the beginning of the story, Paul was a 19 year old who really didn't know what he was getting into, he didn't know that it was going
The passage says ¨We can hardly credit that such things still exist, A girl in a light summer dress, with a red patent-leather belt about her hips! She is standing with one hand on a railing and with the other, she holds a straw hat.[...]¨ At the very end of the story, Paul is very shattered from all of his experiences that the war has brought him, he sits there lonely. The passage says ¨I am very quiet. Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me.¨ (Remarque 295)
In summation, Paul was an eager 19-year-old teenager who didn't know what he was getting into as he joined the war and as he journeyed through the war his experiences made him miss home, lose hope, and much more. Eventually, at the end of the story he was the last to die of his friends, he died by artillery shot or a