Paul Bäumer

Paul Bäumer is the narrator of the novel. He was only 19 when the novel begins and was a member of Second Company in the German Army. Paul was interested in literature. He wrote some poetry and started writing a play. He enjoyed studying and he collect lots of books. But everything changed after the war began, he felt cut off from the past and has no hope and future. The war destroyed his former life and interests. There's nothing except friendship that supported him stay alive. He even thinks that home is no long home, the front line is his home. But that is all he has left. During the war, his friends was killed one by one. There is nothing left for Paul to live for. He is died in battle in October, 1918.