I am not familiar with this story. Metaphors are comparisons without using the words “like or as”. Such as, “She is prettier than a sunflower”.
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This text is an excerpt from "All Quiet on the Western Front" written by Erich Maria Remarque. In this story we are introduced to Paul Baumer, a German soldier in the first world war. The book presents all the terrors and destruction that a war is capable of causing and in the excerpt presented in the question above, we can see Paul showing the conditions of the wounded and dead soldiers in the war hospital, a scene that impacts him a lot and makes him very thoughtful about what the war is causing and what will be the future of all who are there. That's because he entered the army with a very patriotic thought, but he realized that war has nothing to do with patriotism, but with death, pain and suffering.
I believe she is the maid of Atticus...
