all quiet on the western front blog 7

After the battle, Paul is given an 18 day leave. He has also met a women who lives on the other side of the canal, but it becomes nothing serious. But during his leave he goes back to his hometown to find out that his mother has cancer. In the end of the chapter he wishes that he had never come back home. He believes that is just made is harder to go back and leave his mother. I predict that the next chapter Paul will become a higher soldier than he is now, maybe leautenant.