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“’Comrade, I did not want to kill you… Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony – ‘I will write your wife … I will tell her everything I have told you. She shall not suffer. I will help her, and your parents too, and your child -----‘” The words of Paul Baumer relate to the theme of the story in that they express how much destruction and suffering war causes whether on the battlefield or off. It is see from Paul’s concern and desire to ease the pain of the Frenchman’s family that he is feeling the pain of war. Paul is also seeing the future pain of the French man’s family as he saw in Kemmerich’s mother when he lied to her about how Kemmerich had died. The war destroys to these young men’s lives. The characters are being affect