Chapter 2
In school, Paul used to write these.
Poems
The Second Company is assigned to lay down this on the front
barbed-wire
This small insect is crawling all over the soldiers' uniforms. Haie's have red crosses on them.
lice
The weapons the men are given are in this condition.
bad/poor
This person trained Paul's platoon.
Himmelstoss
Paul and his friends do this to Himmelstoss to get revenge on him for his harsh training.
give him a hiding (beat him up)
Paul says that on the front, instincts take over, and men are transformed into this.
"human animals"
Haie has a job doing this back home. He dislikes it so much that he says he would rather become a non-com than return to that line of work.
peat digger
Paul belives that the entire war is a game of this.
chance
Kemmerich gives his boots to this soldier.
Muller
Kat and the other soldiers believe that the men who are given authority tend to use it in this manner.
unjustly; they abuse it
The men experience a bombardment in which several of this type of animal are injured.
horses
This happens to Tjaden and Kropp as a result of disrespecting Himmelstoss.
They are arrested.
This animal is eating the company's rations of bread and cheese.
rats
Paul and his classmates were taught that patriotism requires suppressing these.
individuality and personality
Tjaden and Kindervater wet the bed due to their poor health. Himmelstoss does this to try to make the men stop.
sleep in bunk beds
When Kat and Paul find a wounded man, they think they should do this.
kill him/put him out of his misery
Kat and Paul catch this and share the feast with Tjaden and Kropp.
geese
This many men remain in the Second Company after the attack.
thirty-two
Paul thinks that he and the other young men of his generation were cut off from life just as they had begun to live it. The older soldiers have jobs and families to which they can return after the war, but the younger men have this; the war has become their entire lives.
nothing
Does Himmelstoss ever discover who gave him the beating?
No
Paul personfies this. He ruminates that, for the soldier, it takes on a new significance at the front: he buries his body in it for shelter, and it receives him every time he throws himself down in a fold, furrow, or hollow.
Earth
Why was Himmelstoss sent to the front?
He was caught tormenting his recruits excessively and was sent to the front as punishment.
Fresh coffins are piled by the dozens already lying next to the schoolhouse. The soldiers make jokes to distance themselves from the unpleasant knowledge that the coffins have been made these people.
Themselves