E.M.Remarque "Läänerindel Muutuseta"
understand.
A major becomes angry that Paul does not salute him in the street. As a punishment, he forces
Paul to do a march in the street and salute smartly. Paul wishes to avoid further such incidents,
so he begins wearing civilian clothing. Paul's father, unlike his mother, keeps asking him
questions. He doesn't understand that it is dangerous for Paul to put his experiences into
words. Others who don't ask questions take too much pride in their silence. Sometimes the
screeching of the trams startles Paul because it sounds like shells. He sits in his bedroom with
his books and pictures, trying to recapture his childhood feelings of youth and desire, but the
memories are only shadows. His identity as a soldier is the only thing to which he can cling.
Paul learns from a fellow classmate, Mittelstaedt, now a training officer, that Kantorek has
been conscripted into the war. When he met Kantorek, Mittelstaedt tells Paul, he flaunted his
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