1. All Quiet on the Western Front
... lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response ." This was said after Paul killed Gerald Duval and realized he had a family and friends just like Paul. In Remarque's epigraph he states that it's dedicated to men destroyed by the war, this having two meanings to it, physically, and mentally. War brutality is highly expressed as Paul sees many of ... ...
... who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war." (epigraph) Remarque tried to show us the "hidden costs of war," by showing us that war did not only destroy the body but it demolished the emotional and physiological aspects of ... ...