The soldiers finally get to leave the site of death, agony, despair, fear and go back to civilization to try to forget for the moment of the horrors of war. But for Paul it's a different story, he has to tell a hopeful mother that her son shall not return. As Paul lies to Kemmerick's mother and tells her that her son died a pain less death he denies it himself. I think that this chapter was a good way to retouch on some of the character backgrounds and was really needed to end questions like how are there families feeling and doing. Paul wishes he would have never come back to see what has happened to his own family like how his mother has cancer and how the will town is starving, these feelings put great stress and depression on to Pauls mind.
             When Paul gets back on to the battle field he has a hard time trying to keep focused and feels remorse when he has to kill a soldier who has a wife and child. This book really supports the theory of survival of the feudist because it is a war and only the strong survive , and the willing to kill. To be in a war you really have to put all of your morals aside and do what will keep you alive like kill another human being. In Pauls case he felt remorse after seeing a picture of the victims family and could have thought about the fact that the other man had a family and a job and friends. Throughout this book the themes of the novel keep getting brought up on the battle field but I think there was on theme that really did not stop through the whole novel and that was the fact that they have lost these years of there life for a war that will end and it will be without them. Years lost just for freedom really, because that is all they were really fighting for was just freedom and there rights which to me is a good reason to fight for.
             This bool only talks about this one group of people in the war but what about the others who gave their lives for the freedoms we have now, the thousa...