Fredrich Müller

Jacob Mackedanz

Character review

10/3/12

The character I chose to review from the book “All Quiet on the Western Front” was Fredrich Müller. I chose him because I feel he expressed the educational side of war fare and trying to become close to his friends around him by bringing up scenario and asking questions. My group reviewed chapter 5 and in chapter five Fredrich Müller ask what everyone would do if there was peace time. He goes around the group asking each one and they all give there scenarios of what they think they would be doing. He does this a couple other times in the book as well I think it adds character to book because it makes you think about the characters not only in a war time setting but also away from war as well.

Early in the book it states that Fredrich Müller brings all of his old school books into war with him because he feels it is important to keep his education going and never stop learning. Whilel the 2^nd company is under fire the author makes a point that Fredrich Müller really does care about his education by having him state some propositions about physics which I thought was kind of funny. Here he is in the middle of war and you have an 18 and a half year old man reciting school topics to help keep his mind off of things.

One of the things about Fredrich Müller that confused me or kind of made me angry was when he became interested in Kemmerich's boots. I understand that there were terrible conditions over there and they didn’t receive much for supplies and such but when he took his boots from him that kind of irritated me but at the same time I understand why he did it.

I think that Fredrich Müller dies one of the most unique ways out of any buddy in the book. He died by being shot point blank in the stomach with a flare gun. I think this is unique because it shows that the people in war were desperate to stay alive and would use any weapon they could get their hands on. Ooo and the boots that he “inherited” then got passed on to Paul so this also shows that the supplies must have been tight if even Paul would take his boots.