Paul's Frustration

When paul comes home to find his mother and quickly realized she is sick, he does become upset. She did irritate him by asking questions like " was it very bad out there, paul?'' when she said this it really angered him because she doesn't know the least of what he has been through. When paul sees his old teacher the teacher was instructing paul and telling him how they should be fighting and handling the war. This is wrong because this is the teacher that made this group of boys sign up for the war leading to a lot of their deaths. The teacher was asking him if he had been in one on one, hand combat which is extremely dangerous. Paul was insulted by the almost joke like tone in the teachers voice, however he is incredible respectful so he doesn't say anything. Paul has to tell Kemmerich's mother about her sons death, she was incredibly sad and paul lied to her and told her that his death was quick and painless. Kemmerich's mom didn't believe him but he promised. I think paul was irritated by all these incidents because nobody knows what he has been through, and he realizes that his life will never again be the same. The war has permanently been imbedded in his life style and once he has lived under these conditions and been put in these situations his life will never return to the way it was before.