All Quiet on the Western Front Post 4

AQWF is getting pretty good. Right now in the book Paul Baumer and his fellow comrades just finished visiting their very good friend, who was also part of their troop, Kemmerich. Their friend Kemmerich is in the hospital for a reason that is unknown. All we know is that he has just woken up from surgery in which his leg has been amputated. Before Paul and his friends went into see Kemmerich the doctor told the guys that Kemmerich did not yet know that his leg had been amputated for he was just waking up from the surgery and was not fully "with it" so the guys were not supposed to mention anything to him. The doctor also mentioned that Kemmerich may not make it through the night. As the scene progresses the guys talk with their friend and fellow soldier. Kemmerich is in a good deal of pain and the guys try to keep his mind off it by reminising about old times. You can tell by the tone of Paul's thoughts that he is very sad that his friend will not be with him much longer. Paul can see the mourning in all of the guys' eyes and they all just sit around in a melancholy sort of manner. This is the first point in the book where we actually experience sadness and grieving on a first hand level with the soldiers. In past passages they had not been mourning but just sort of recalling previous deaths of other soldiers, this is the first dying friend of theirs that we actually encounter while he's still alive. The chapter ends with the guys walking out of the room and persuading the nurse with cigarettes to give Kemmerich some more morphine.