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• How does the story begin?

  With Sassoons open letter, protesting the conduct and incinserities of the First World War. 

• How does Sassoon end up at Craiglockhart?

  With the string-pulling and guidance of Robert Graves, a fellow poet and friend of Sassoon, the Board agrees to send Sassoon to Craiglockhart War Hospital—a mental facility in Scotland—rather than court-marshaling him. 

• Who is Robert Graves?

  Sassoons friend, who prevented him from being court-marshaled. 

• Why is Sassoon hesitant to go to Craiglockhart?

  he (rightly) fears that being committed to a mental hospital will undermine his cause

• How does Rivers feel about Sassoons opinion?

  He sympathises with the dislike of the horrors of the war, but thinks it is his duty to send him back. 

• What does Prior suffer from?

  Mutism. 

• What is Rivers nightmare about?

  old nerve regeneration experiments he used to conduct with his old friend, Henry Head. At Cambridge, the two had severed a nerve in Head's hand with the purpose of charting its gradual regeneration. Rivers still feels guilty about the pain he inflicted on his friend, as well as the pain he inflicts on his patients by forcing them to talk about their war experiences.

• Who does Sassoon become friends with?

  Owen

• What happens when Rivers tries hypnosis on Prior?

  The hypnosis works, and Prior remembers in vivid detail having to shovel his men's remains after they were killed by a shell. Prior's memories anger and upset him. 

• What does Prior doe when he is granted permanent home-service?

  He sneaks into Sarahs room. Though they are both skeptical about love, they agree to give their relationship a try.