Detering: Comes across cherry blossoms and picks some branches. He becomes homesick and heads toward Germany, but got caught by the field gendarmes.
Berger: Gets a case of front-line madness and leaves cover to find a wounded messenger-dog.
Others: Go so mad that they rave, run away, or dig themselves into the ground with hands, feet & teeth.
Müller: Was shot point blank in the stomach.
Everyone: is emaciated and starved. There's little to no artillery. Not enough horses. Fresh troops merely know how to die. A1 needs soldiers so the surgeons send injured soldiers up there when they shouldn't. Hopelessness.
Bertinck: Receives a chest wound, and his shin is smashed away by fragments. Leer's hip is torn open by the same fragment and he bleeds out quickly.
Kat: His shin is smashed to the bone and bleeds fast. Paul binds it and carries him to a dressing station. Kat gets shot in the back of the head right before they arrive at the dressing station. Paul thinks he saved Kat until the orderly points out that he's dead. Paul was unaware that Kat got shot.
Paul: He's losing all his friends, and is living a life of death. He reminisces the good times he's had with his friends, like finding the 2 geese with Kat, but it doesn't compare to everything else the war has made him and the others face. He feels as though the soldiers are transformed into "unthinking animals in order to give [them] the weapon of instinct" (page 274).
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Jessica L, Slade S
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