The quote on page 131 of the book "All Quiet On The Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque is a great representation of what is happening in the image to the left. The quote is "A surprise gas-attack carries off a lot of them. They have not yet learned what to do. We found one dug-out full of them, with blue heads and black lips. Some of them in a shell-hole took off their masks too soon; they did not know that the gas lies longest in the hollows; when they saw others on top without masks they pulled theirs off too and swallowed enough to scorch their lungs. Their condition is hopeless, they choke to death with haemorrhages and suffocation.". Similarities between the quote and the image include the fact that they both depict soldiers suffering through the effects of gas. The soldiers in both the image and the text attempt to run from the gas, while people die around them. In contrast, the soldiers in the text didn't know what to do to, or how to react to the gas, while in the image, the soldiers didn't have gas masks to begin with.
The quote you used fit's well with the picture, it does display the soldiers surrounded by the gas. The soldiers in the background can be seen without any gas mask and yet they are running out of it. The passage says that they take off their mask because they think the gas is gone but it wasn't so they try to escape it. Overall this is a great response/
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