All Quiet on the Western Front Post 5

AQWF is getting really good. Thanks to both Quinn Deeds and my mom and dad's reccomendations I have successfully chosen a book that I do not want to put down. I feel that I like it so much because the author, Erich Remarque's, writing style is so vivid and interactive that the reader feels as though he has known a character like Paul Baumer for a while. I left off where Paul and his comrades are just leaving the hospital. They have just visited their friend Kemmerich who has just had his leg amputated. They are all grieving for Kemmerich because the doctors told the guys that he will probably not make it through the night. As they enter his room all of them try to maintain the best of spirits but are still very melancholy. One of Pauls commrades sees a pair of Kemmerichs very nice, stern, top of the line boots lying under the bed and kind of pesters Kemmerich in which I portrayed to be a very jerk-like thing to do for a friend who is dying and needs all the confidence he can get. But as Paul's friend pesters Kemmerich to have the boots Paul notices that Kemmerichs eyes no longer have that "flicker of life" as they used to. He feels sorry for his friend and elbows his pestering commrade in the gut to make him stop. The guys leave the hospital all down in the dumps like for they are going to miss their old friend who used to fight alongside them, as would any human being at the loss of someone who was dear to them.