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Paul enlisted in the army.
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As the new rookies come in paul feels more experienced.
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Paul says, "I nod and wonder what to say to encourage him. His lips have fallen away, his mouth has become larger, his teeth stick out and look as though they were made of chalk. The flesh melts, the forehead bulges more prominently, the cheek-bones protrude. The skeleton is working itself through. The eyes are already sunken in. In a couple of hours it will be over"
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The are putting up barbwire and are getting ready for battle just in case the enemies try anything.
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Men start discussing what life would be like if they were out of the war. They start talking about what kind of jobs they would have or what they would do during there spare time.
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Men rush to the front as they hear bombs crashing down around them. They pass a bombed school house as they look to the side of them they see a high stack of coffins piled up beside the school house, nearly brand new.
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The mens attention has turned to the rats that are over running the camps, stealing all the food.
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They men are afrid that when the women go into battle they will gt scared and run away.
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Paul returns back to base where he knows almost no one, they seem to be all rookies.
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Prisoners are trading food for clothes. They barely have anything left.
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Paul sits and guards the burial grounds of the fallen russians. He listens to the hymns that they sing as they die and it makes him feel like he is one of them.
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Paul returns back to te front and asks where Kat and Albert are but no one has herd from them
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Paul yells at the corps i didnot mean to kill you, you were only an abstraction.
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The bring two blind men into the room, one trys to kill himself so now they wont let him eat with a knife
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Paul waxes about death coming faster, easier, and more terribly now at this stage of the war. The desperate clinging to life gets more intense men eat faster, more violently and more urgently, as if sucking in every last second before the death that they know will come to them.
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Months pass through the summer of 1918, there losing but there general tells them to push on.
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