All quiet on the western front erich maria remarque chapters 1 – 5 character identification: write the letter of the appropriate character. a. leer b. muller c. kropp d. tjaden e. baumer f. westhus g. katczinsky h. kemmerich i. kantorek j. detering 1. a locksmith and voracious eater who is thin as a rail 2. a peat-digger with a large and powerful body 3. the protagonist and narrator of the story 4. in a letter, he refers to paul and his friends as the "iron youth" 5. he is unaware that his leg has been amputated 6. wants kemmerich's boots believing that kemmerich no longer has any use for them 7. a peasant with a wife at home 8. one of paul's close friends, intelligent, speculative and insightful 9. another of paul's close friends; first to lose his virginity 10. paul's best friend in the army; has a family at home