Chapter Six Literary Reflection
An Important Experience with Friends

Chapter Seven Socratic Seminar

Chapter Seven

My thoughts on the chapter

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In this chapter, there are many points that were made about Paul’s personal life and how it may never be the same again after all the death he has experienced out on the front. Paul, in this chapter, has plenty of time off from direct combat, so he tries to re-humanize himself. He tries to hook up with French girls, he tries to go home to see his family and childhood friends, yet when he talks with all of these people all they want to talk with him about is the war; in particular, his father and his friends were talking in a way that made Paul, his knowledge of warfare and his position in the army seem utterly useless. When the talk of the war never seems to end, Paul feels as if he can’t separate himself from war at all and that nothing is, or will never be the same. He finds himself to be very impatient in talking with people and very explosive with some people. Throughout this chapter we see Paul look back at his former lifestyle and then truly believe that he can’t go back to that ever again. Going forward in the book, I will be looking at how he deals with talking to people and his overall morale.

 

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