Chapter 12
In this chapter Paul is off the front lines recovering from inhaling some gas. He is in the garden thinking how life will be after the war. He talks about how the generations before and after his will be just fine. The generation before will go back to their occupations they had before the war. The generation after will “be strange to us and push us aside.” But his generation will not know how to adapt. The war is all they know. “The years will pass by and in the end we shall fall into ruin,” he says. As much as Paul wants the armistice and the war to end, he is nervous for what is to come of his future.
In the end, Paul never has to face his fear of post-war life. Paul is killed in October 1918. “On a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front.”
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