Summary Of All Quite On The Western Front!

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filled with terror and groaning." It is very loud, also, with constant bombardments and frequent attacks. "At that moment," Paul says, "it breaks out behind us, shells, roars, thunders." The screamhs of injured people is even worse then the blaring explosions and the earsplitting sound of machine gun firing because they know that the wounded soldiers could have easily been them. He says, "This appalling noise, these groans and screams penetrate, they penetrate everywhere."
The effects this place has on Paul and his fellow soldiers are devastating and it is changing them every day. Paul used to find comforts in his books, but when he was on leave, he found they didn't give the feelings of excitement they use to bring him. He felt like a stranger around his family and the people he knew before the war. In one part of the book, where they are talking about what they will do after the war is over, Haie says, "If I were a non-com, I'd stay with the Prussians and serve out my time." ...

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