Paul Baumer

Paul Baumer:

He is a young German solider. For me, he is a person who is really sensitive and kind. At first, he thought that join the war was a thing that you can be proud of, but after join the war, he found out that the war was a diverter, people lose their humanity, they just keep killing each others.
The most important thing for Baumer are his friends in the front. When he has the opportunity to go home, he found out that he can't “fit” in; he wanted to go back to the front with all his friends. At the train camp, he met some starving Russian prisoners, and Baumer shared his food with them, and they made Baumer realized that their enemies are not faceless creature, but human beings. Baumer started appose the killing, cause he knew that the person you killed is also a human, he has his won family, his family will be sorrowful about his death, just like his family. Although Baumer is a soldier who fight this war, but the war didn’t make him lost his humanity and sensitive.
But during the war, Baumer lost all his friends, they all dead during the fight and all dead before Baumer dead. Baumer is amazed that he is still alive and this made Baumer really painful.
At last, Baumer on a "quiet day on the Western Front." He is killed by anti-climatic, but actually, losing all his friends kills him.