In chapter one, it tells how Paul was a German student who had been persuaded by his schoolteacher to join the war effort. He was not the only one, their school teacher had persuaded the entire class to sign up, most of them only 19 years old. One such student was Franz Kemmerich. He was wounded in combat and had his leg amputated. He was sick and was not going to recover from the operation, and all his classmates knew it. Muller had wanted his boots for use on the front, rather than let a hospital orderly have them.The conditions in hospitals were not ideal, and death by infection and amputations was common. most of the time the bodies would have to be dragged off so they could use the bed it had recently occupied.Medicine was not nearly as advanced then as it is today. Those few lucky enough to survive the front usually did not survive the hospitals they were sent to. as the war dragged on, the supplies the military had for medical treatment were dwindling, and some were not even treated and just sent back to combat.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Franz Kemmerich's Death
In chapter one, it tells how Paul was a German student who had been persuaded by his schoolteacher to join the war effort. He was not the only one, their school teacher had persuaded the entire class to sign up, most of them only 19 years old. One such student was Franz Kemmerich. He was wounded in combat and had his leg amputated. He was sick and was not going to recover from the operation, and all his classmates knew it. Muller had wanted his boots for use on the front, rather than let a hospital orderly have them.The conditions in hospitals were not ideal, and death by infection and amputations was common. most of the time the bodies would have to be dragged off so they could use the bed it had recently occupied.Medicine was not nearly as advanced then as it is today. Those few lucky enough to survive the front usually did not survive the hospitals they were sent to. as the war dragged on, the supplies the military had for medical treatment were dwindling, and some were not even treated and just sent back to combat.
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Nice picture i like how you show'd the conditions and how many people there would be in one of these rooms. I also like how you explained how the conditions were like when you said when someone died they would just be dragged off to the side and someone else would get put there immediately after that person died.
ReplyDeleteI love how you mentioned the boots that was one of
ReplyDeletemy favorite parts in the book. Like at first I didn't really understand why the men wanted his boots so I bad it was so sad in my eyes to take your friends boots who's about to die. Those boots were the safety or help of survival for the other men who needed them. And when Kemmerich died someone got those boots and soon they got to Paul and Paul was the lat of them to die so they were still on him and those boots kept me going with the story.