Chapter Seven of "All Quiet on the Western Front"

The chapter starts out with Paul and what's left of his company moving back into safe German territory. This is a huge break after being in the Front Lines for so long. While in safe territory, they eat good and get a lot of sleep. During this time they get to meet three French women and Paul loses his v-card. After this event, Paul is granted a seventeen day leave. He takes the train home after a couple of days of rest behind ally lines. When he gets home he meets up with his mom, dad, and sister. When he talks to his mom he lies about the war and finds out she is sick again with cancer. He meets up with a commander back in his hometown and Paul gets angry at the commander for making Paul look like a tool. After this event, Paul goes to the beer garden and meets up with some of his people in his hometown. His father and his school teacher ask him a bunch of question which he lies about. Kantorak is recruited later in the chapter and Middelstaedt talks trash about him being a sloppy soldier. At the end of the chapter he says good-bye to his mother and returns to the camp on the moors.