All Quiet on the Western Front Essay
             One of the major themes in Remarque's novel, All Quiet on the Western Front is comradeship. Paul, (the main character) experiences different kinds of comradeship: the comradeship of his regiment, and the comradeship of his adversaries. Paul deals with each type of comradeship differently and is changed personally by each experience. Remarque's use of comradeship throughout the book emphasizes how Paul conceived that in the outcome of the war all people are similar and equal.
             Paul had many friends in his regiment, but his best friends were, Kat, Tjaden, and Kropp. These three men were there for Paul during the virtuous and wretched times. Kat, the most experienced, was the father figure to all the men. He proved to be amazing in many ways. In one scene the regiment is in a deserted town; they are tired and enter an old building to sleep, but they complain that they are hungry. Kat asked someone in the regiment, from the town, if they knew where there was any food. The man replied "No". So Kat went looking, when he returned, "He had two loaves of bread under his arm and a blood stained bag full of horse flesh in his hand."(39). Kat could find anything for his men; he found food in a deserted town where the people that lived there could hardly get any. On the other hand Tjaden, the biggest eater of the group, has a great grudge against Himmelstoss. At one particular scene Tjaden and the boys get their revenge; "Tjaden unbuttoned Himmelstoss's braces and pulled down his trousers, holding the whip meantime in his teeth. Then he stood up and set to work."( ). These boys did everything together; they slept, ate, played, and fought together. They fought together on the front and in the back. Kropp and Paul went through many things together. Both Paul and Kropp were walking along a road when a bomb exploded next to them, they were both hit...