All Quiet on the Western Front Post 10

In this next section we finally get to see what is like actually fighting on the front lines for Paul and his comrades. We left off with the beating of General Himmelstoss and the boys being high as a kite with satisfaction for they had been wanting to do that for a very long time. But now life on the front is not so fun. The section starts off with Paul, Kat, Muller, and a couple other friends of Pauls getting trucked out of the base. When they arrive at the front it is all calm and they are just getting set up for no fighting is occurring at the moment. But as the night progresses Kat, being the man of many mysteries, can feel it in his bones; there is going to be a bombardment tonight. Sure enough in the middle of the night the sky becomes like the fourth of July and Kat and Paul are on the run. There is a lot of gunfire but that is the least of anyones worries for the bombs are the only thing on any soldiers mind. They are able to find shelter behind trees, hills, and in ditches. But they are in the middle of a graveyard, so as each bomb falls to the ground bodies and coffins are flung into the air and land ontop of many soldiers. After a small bomb explodes right next to the pile of dirt Paul is hiding behind, Paul decides to make a jump into the hole it has created, for Paul says,"a bomber never lands in the same spot twice." Sure enough no harm comes to him but just as soon as the bombing stops the French unleash the gas. Kat yells over to Paul to put on his gas mask and tells him to pass it on to soldiers nearby. But being 1914 the masks barely block out the gas that they are exposed to. Paul's lungs begin to ache and he starts to get dizzy, but and the last second he forces himself awake. The fighting continues through the night and into the next morning and early afternoon. The section ends with Paul and Kat finally going back to base camp.