All Quiet on the Western Front: How entering war at an early age can change a person.

<Tab/>Paul Baumer is the protagonist in All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque. Paul changes his values throughout the novel as a result of having to adapt in order to survive. As Baumer struggles to survive the war, he transforms as shown by his thoughts, actions, and the conversations that he contributes in. <Tab/> One way that Paul changes is that his …

…personality appears to contrast with the way the war forces him to act and feel. Paul becomes unable to imagine a future without the war. He no longer pauses to mourn fallen friends and loses his ability to speak to his family or other civilians. War can change any man, but enlisting at such a young age can morally corrupt a man because he has nothing else but the war. .Without morals, there is nothing.