This chapter/section realy starts to show what the soldiers do to compensate mentally for the war. They get new reinforcements and get to feel like veterenas. it makes them feel powerful, but they also feel like they are being hypocritical because they hate the power ladder of the army. They all gather around and propose different ways to cope rather than war, one guy says that the leaders of each nation should battel to the death instead of armies, but then they realize that all leaders are cowards. So they think of their own leader Himmelstoss, and loathe him. Paul is in a blood rage and him and his friends amush Himmelstoss and beat him. This chapter really starts to develope Paul as the war changes him. He is becoming instinctuous and angry.
War SUX
Peter
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Western Front Blog
Paul is truley haunted by the war. All he can do is think about his old life and how foolish he was to leave it behind when it was just staring to get good. He begins to think about all the patriotism coaches that tricked him and his friends and feels distant witht everyhitn besides his friends and death. He despises the fact that they are at war, but is thrown back into reality as Kemmerich begins to die. Paul tries to comfort him but he sees his missing leg and begins to weep. When pual returns he is already dead.
This gruesome account really puts the reader into the pychological factor of war. And how tragic it is that young men are lured into war when they have their whole lives ahead of them. This chapter was definitly written to show the mental side of things and not just the bloodshed.
Love,
Peter
This gruesome account really puts the reader into the pychological factor of war. And how tragic it is that young men are lured into war when they have their whole lives ahead of them. This chapter was definitly written to show the mental side of things and not just the bloodshed.
Love,
Peter
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