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Paul enlists in the army
Paul enlisted in the army. -
Paul is superior to the rookies
As the new rookies come in paul feels more experienced. -
Pauls' experiences
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" -
Preparing for war
The are putting up barbwire and are getting ready for battle just in case the enemies try anything. -
Men discuss life without war
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. -
Attack on the western front
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. -
Rats!
The mens attention has turned to the rats that are over running the camps, stealing all the food. -
Women
They men are afrid that when the women go into battle they will gt scared and run away. -
To return once more
Paul returns back to base where he knows almost no one, they seem to be all rookies. -
Prisoner trade
Prisoners are trading food for clothes. They barely have anything left. -
Hymes of the fallin
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. -
Back to reality
Paul returns back to te front and asks where Kat and Albert are but no one has herd from them -
Paul talks to the dead
Paul yells at the corps i didnot mean to kill you, you were only an abstraction. -
Blind men
The bring two blind men into the room, one trys to kill himself so now they wont let him eat with a knife -
Reality kicks in
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. -
Months pass
Months pass through the summer of 1918, there losing but there general tells them to push on.