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Chapter 1 The book opens with Paul Baumer, the narrator, and the rest of Second Company a few miles from the front. They have just returned from the front the night before, having suffered unexpected and heavy losses. ... They all laugh, trying to imagine him there on the front. ... He was left for dead on the front, and when he tried to crawl back, blinded, he was killed before anyone could help him. ... They drop the subject, and the men begin to reminisce about hot summers at the training barracks and drills they were forced to practice--a long way away from the front line. ... Topic Tracking: Comrades 3 As they talk about this, Tjaden rushes up with news: Himmelstoss, their hated Corporal, has been ordered to the front. ... They havent seen him since the night before they left for the front, when they took revenge on him for his abuse. ... Pauls group is sent to the front to string barbed wire. ... "To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. ... 55 This is how Paul thinks of the front. At the front, he lives on instinct. ... He and his companions simply let animal instinct take over at the front. ... Directly in front of him, a shell hits and blows a hole in the ground. ... He has indeed been sent to the front, punishment for overzealously abusing recruits. ... When Paul and Kropp explain why Tjaden hates Himmelstoss, Bertink lectures Himmelstoss on the difference between the front and the parade-ground in training camp. ... After the game, Kat and Paul go hunting for the geese they heard on the way to the front for wiring detail. ... Pauls group is sent to the front early to prepare for a coming offensive. ... At the front, they can hear the sound of trucks bringing supplies to the enemy. ... To him and his comrades, life and death become meaningless on the front. ... They reach the enemy front line and fight in the trenches, then steal food and return to their position behind the protection of their artillery. ... Afterwards, on watch, Paul thinks of memories that are calm and quiet. ... Pauls group is relieved and they take a truck away from the front. Paul notes how much the season has changed from when they went to the front. ... He orders them to count off, but there are only thirty-two of the original 150 that went to the front at the beginning of the offensive. ... They are rested and well fed, and the terror of the front begins to sink down inside them. ... Bertink tells him that after traveling, he will report to a training camp before he returns to the front. ... Paul is confused, but realizes that the girl finds his leave boring, and would only be interested if he was going to the front. ... 160 Topic Tracking: Innocence Lost 9 He gives his mother and sister the food he has brought from the front. His mother becomes anxious and asks him how it is at the front, because she has heard stories from other soldiers. ... When the major hears that Paul is on leave from the front, he yells at him more and tells him that his "front-line manners" arent welcome there. ... That evening, his father asks a lot of stupid questions about the front. Paul got annoyed with the questions, because his father didnt understand that talking about the front wont make you understand the front. ... He is attracted and repelled by normal civilian life all at the same time, and ultimately can only think of his comrades back at the front. ... He thinks of Kemmerich, and contemplates visiting his mother, but that leads him to thinking about being with his comrades at the front. ... He swears anyway, and says he hopes he will never return from the front if he is lying. ... She warns him about French women and tells him to be careful at the front. ... At the end of Pauls trip back to the front, he discovers that no one knows where his regiment is, and he must find it himself. ... He finally finds some good information on them, but is told to wait until they return from the front in two more days to rejoin them. ... Rumors go around that they are being transferred to the Russian front. ... Topic Tracking: Comrades 10 On the way back to the front, they see a naked man hanging in a tree. ... In front of them are "black troops," or men dressed in black uniforms that are hard to see. ... Another week, and they are ordered back to the front. ... Paul shouts for quiet, but one of the nuns tells him that prayer is more important than sleep. ... Albert goes to an institute for artificial limbs, and Paul goes home for sick leave, then back to the front. ... The trees are green and spring has come to the front. ... 271 For the men on the front, nothing exists besides life and death. ... They know only two things, fighting and the hospital, where doctors send men who shouldnt fight back to the front to fight. ... "He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. |
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