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| Before enlisting in the war. |
Throughout the young soldiers' journey in All Quiet on the Western Front, they go through major changes in their mentalities. Before enlisting, they were taught to be excited and enthusiastic about the war. They were still children, immature to the realities the war would instill upon them. When thrown into the crossfires of the battlefield, they experienced pain, death, and numbness. These teens were quickly forced to mature into old men in their minds, as well as evolve physically into fighters. While on leave, they're unable to accommodate to a normal citizen's daily schedule. The war is fought in a disarray of random events, so they are no longer able to sympathize with their families' routine lives. These soldiers are no longer teenagers with hope for their future, they are men. Men who struggle to make it to the next shell hole, and hope to make it through the next day; for that's all they can see.
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| Despair during the war. The events will change the soldiers forever. |
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