Abstract: "On the Western Front without Change" (Remark)

We propose to read the article about the war, written in 1929, to read its brief content. "On the Western Front without change" - so called the novel of interest to us. The author of the work is Erich Maria Remarque. Photo of the writer is presented below.

The next event begins with a brief summary. "On the Western Front without Change" tells of the height of the First World War. Germany is already at war against Russia, France, America and England. Paul Boiler, the narrator in the work, introduces his fellow soldiers. They are fishermen, peasants, artisans, schoolchildren of different ages.

Rota is resting after the battle

About the soldiers of one company is told in the novel. Lowering the details, we have compiled a summary. "On the Western Front without Change" is a work in which the company is described mainly, which included the main characters - former classmates. She has already lost almost half her composition. Rota rests 9 km from the front after meeting with the guns of the British - "meat grinders." Soldiers get lost because of losses under the experience of shelling double portions of cigarettes and food. They are full of smoke, eat, sleep and play cards. Paul, Cropp and Mueller go to their wounded classmate. These soldiers were in the same company as the four of them, persuaded by the class teacher Kantorek, his "sincere voice."

How Iosif Bem was killed

Josef Böhm, the hero of the work "On the Western Front without Changes" (we describe the summary), did not want to go to war, but, fearing that he could not cut all the ways for himself, enrolled, like others, as a volunteer. He was killed one of the first. He could not find the shelter because of the injuries he received. The soldier lost his landmark and was eventually shot. Kantorek, a former soldier mentor, in a letter to Kropp sends greetings, calling his comrades "iron guys." So many Kantorekov fool young people.

The Death of Kimmerich

Kimmerich, another of his classmates, the comrades found with an amputated foot in the field hospital. His mother asked him to look after him Paul, because Franz Kimmerich - "quite a child." But how can this be done on the front line? One glance at Kimmerich is enough to understand that this soldier is hopeless. While he was unconscious, someone stole his favorite watch, received as a gift. Remained, however, good leather English boots to the knees, which Franz is no longer needed. Kimmerich dies in front of his comrades. Soldiers, suppressed by this, return with Franz's boots to the barracks. With Cropp, hysterics happen along the way. After reading the novel, which is made up of a summary ("On the Western Front without Change"), you will learn the details of these and other events.

Replenishment of a company with recruits

Arriving at the barracks, the soldiers see that the recruitment of recruits has happened. The living replaced the dead. One of the new arrivals says that they were eating only a trouser leg. Kat (the Kachchinsky getter) feeds a guy with beans and meat. Kropp offers his own version of how to conduct military operations. Let the generals fight themselves, and the victorious country will declare the war victorious. And it turns out that others are fighting for them, those who do not need a war, who did not start it.

Replenished with new recruits, the company goes to the front line for sapper work. Teaches the recruits experienced Kat, one of the main characters in the novel "On the Western Front without Change" (the summary only briefly acquaints the reader with it). He explains to the recruits how to recognize tears and shots and to bury them. He assumes, after listening to the "rumble of the front," that they will be given a light at night. "

Reflecting on the behavior of the advanced soldiers, Paul says that they are all connected instinctively with their land. In it, you want to cuddle when shells whistle overhead. The earth appears to the soldier as a reliable intercessor, he tests his pain and fear with a cry and moans, and she accepts them. She is his mother, brother, the only Friend.

Night shelling

As Kat thought, the shelling was very dense. Cases of exploding chemical shells are heard. Metal ratchets and gongs announce: "Gas, gas!" One hope for the soldiers is the tightness of the mask. All funnels are filled with a "soft jellyfish". We must go upstairs, but there is artillery fire.

Comrades calculate how many people from their class have survived. 7 killed, 1 is in a madhouse, 4 are wounded - only 8. A rest. A cover from the vaccines is attached to the candle. Lice are dumped there. The soldiers reflect on this occupation about what each of them would do if there was no war. The former postman, and now the chief torturer of the guys at the teachings of Himmelstos, arrives in the unit. Everyone has a tooth on him, but his comrades have not yet decided how to take revenge on him.

The fighting continues

Preparation of the offensive is further described in the novel "On the Western Front without Change." Remark paints such a picture: smelling of resin coffins are laid in 2 tiers near the school. Cadaver rats have divorced in the trenches, and they can not cope with them. It is impossible to deliver food to soldiers because of the shelling. One of the recruits had a seizure. He wants to jump out of the dugout. The French are attacking, and the soldier is pushed back to the reserve. After a counterattack, they return with trophies that make up booze and canned food. Continuous firing from both sides is carried out. In a large funnel lay the dead. They are already in 3 layers. All the living were dulled and exhausted. In the trench hid Himmelstos. Paul forces him to attack.

Only 32 people remained from the company, which consisted of 150 soldiers. They are led to the rear farther than before. Ironically, the soldiers smooth the nightmares of the front. This helps to escape from insanity.

Paul goes home

In the office, where they called Paul, he was given travel documents and a vacation certificate. He examines with excitement from the window of his car "border pillars" of youth. Here, at last, and his house. Paul's mother is ill. Demonstrate feelings are not accepted in their family, and the words of the mother "my dear boy" tell a lot about. The father wants to show his son his son in uniform, but Paul does not want to talk to anyone about the war. A soldier thirsts for solitude and finds him behind a mug of beer in the quiet corners of local restaurants or in his own room, where the atmosphere is familiar to him to the smallest detail. He calls to the German teacher of beer. Here patriotically minded teachers, Paul's acquaintances, argue bravo about how to "beat the Frenchman." Paul is treated to cigars and beer, while making plans for how to capture Belgium, large territories of Russia and the coal regions of France. Paul goes to the barracks, where the soldier drilled 2 years ago. Mittelsted, his classmate, who was sent here from the infirmary, reports the news that Kantorek was taken to the militia. According to his own scheme, he is drilled by a skilled military man.

Paul - the main character of the work "On the Western Front without Change." Remark writes about him further that the guy goes to the mother of Kimmerich and tells her about the instant death of her son from a wound in the heart. A woman believes his convincing story.

Paul shares cigarettes with Russian prisoners

And again the barracks where the soldiers drilled. Nearby is a large camp, which contains Russian prisoners of war. Here on the post stands Paul. Looking at all these people with beards of apostles and children's faces, the soldier reflects on who turned them into murderers and enemies. He breaks his cigarettes and through the grid halfway passes them to the Russians. Every day they sing memorial services, burying the dead. All this is described in detail in his work Remarque ("On the Western Front without Change"). The summary continues with the arrival of the Kaiser.

The arrival of the Kaiser

Paul is again sent to his unit. Here he meets his old friends. They are chasing a week on the parade ground. Soldiers on the occasion of the arrival of such an important person are issued a new uniform. Kaiser does not impress them. Spores begin again about who is the initiator of wars, for which they are needed. Take, for example, a French hard worker. Why should this man be at war? All this is decided by the authorities. Unfortunately, we can not dwell on the author's digressions, making a brief summary of the story "On the Western Front Without Change."

Paul kills French soldier

There are rumors that they will be sent to fight in Russia, but the soldiers are sent to the forefront, to the very heat. Guys go to the intelligence service. Night, shooting, rockets. Paul got lost and does not understand which side of their trenches are. He spends the day in a funnel, in mud and water, pretending to be dead. Paul lost his gun and, in case of melee, prepares a knife. A lost French soldier falls into his funnel. Paul throws himself at him with a knife. When night falls, he returns to the trenches. Paul is shocked - for the first time in his life he killed a man, and after all, he, in fact, did not do anything to him. This is an important episode of the novel, and it should certainly be reported to the reader, compiling a brief summary. "On the Western Front without changes" (fragments of it sometimes carry an important semantic function) is a work that can not be fully understood without turning to details.

Feast in Time of Plague

The soldier is sent to guard the food warehouse. Of their separation, only six remained alive: Deterling, Leer, Tiaden, Müller, Albert, Kat - all here. In the village, these heroes of the novel "On the Western Front without Changes" Remarque, in a brief summary presented in this article, reveal a reliable concrete basement. Mattresses and even an expensive bed made of mahogany, with feather beds and lace bring from the houses of escaped residents. Kat and Paul go on a reconnaissance tour of this village. It is under heavy fire from artillery guns. In the barn, they find two frolicking pigs. Great treat is to be. The warehouse is half-ruined, the village is burning from the shelling. Now you can get anything from it. Driving chauffeurs and security guards use this. Feast in Time of Plague.

Newspapers report: "On the Western Front without Change"

The summary of the chapters is already coming to an end. Let us describe the final events of the novel.

"Maslenitsa" ended in a month. Again the soldiers are sent to the front line. Shell the marching column. Paul and Albert fall into the monastery infirmary of Cologne. From here they constantly take the deceased and bring the wounded again. Albert is amputated to the very top. After recovery, Paul again on the front line. The situation of the soldiers is hopeless. French, British and American regiments are coming on tired of the battles of the Germans. Myller was killed by a lightning rocket. Wounded in the shin Kata from the shelling on his back endures Paul. However, during the dashes Kata injures the neck with a splinter, and yet he dies. Of all the classmates who went to war, Paul alone survived. Everywhere they say that a truce is approaching.

In October 1918, Paul was killed. At that time it was quiet, and military reports came as follows: "On the Western Front, without change." The summary of the chapters of the novel of interest to us ends here.