It focuses on life in the trenches and the horrible conditions that they had to go through. Along with the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” which is closely related to the book. The poem describes the soldiers in the trench slowly crawling to their final destination. Later in the book Paul group gets bombarded with gas and has to warn others to wear their gas mask or they will die. Just like in the poem when the narrator warns the other troops that gas is coming. Then there are a few men that don’t put on their gas mas in time then they are choking and drowning in gas. Both the poem and the book illustrate what it was like to be a soldier during World
It focuses on life in the trenches and the horrible conditions that they had to go through. Along with the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” which is closely related to the book. The poem describes the soldiers in the trench slowly crawling to their final destination. Later in the book Paul group gets bombarded with gas and has to warn others to wear their gas mask or they will die. Just like in the poem when the narrator warns the other troops that gas is coming. Then there are a few men that don’t put on their gas mas in time then they are choking and drowning in gas. Both the poem and the book illustrate what it was like to be a soldier during World