All Quite on the Western Front

- - In the movie 'All Quiet on the Western Front' we see the boys almost innocent as they sit in class. The teacher in this scene is pressuring the boys to go to war. He preaches that it is their 'duty' to fight. The teacher seems very pushy and strict. He is especially strict with Paul, the main character in the movie. In this particular scene, Paul is drawing a picture of a bird. In …

…dies he sees a bird and wants to draw it. The bird could resemble because in the classroom when he first drew a picture of the bird he was innocent but now when he is drawing a picture of the bird, Paul is cynical and enraged with killing. This could tell us that the boys were too young to fight in the war and they were forced to fight because of pressure of the others.