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Paul doesn’t see a difference between himself and the prisoners. He feels the prisoners are now animals suffering inside of their bodies that were told to fight another person’s war.


Paul breaks his cigarettes in half and hands them out to the prisoners. One of the prisoners found out that Paul plays the piano, and the prisoner plays the violin making Paul feel more sympathy.


Paul sees his father and his sister before he is sent to the front again and they talk about their mother’s illness. She is in a hospital and they didn’t dare to ask the cost because they were afraid that if they did they wouldn’t treat her.


Paul’s mother give him cakes and he hands them out to the prisoners but then he feels that she made them special for him while she was cooking in pain so he saved two for himself.