All Quite on the Western Front

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…showed last 75 words of 541 total… of the other army hoping that they wouldn't shoot them before they got a chance to kill the people that were going to kill them. This shows us how brutal this war was and how brutal war actually is. Remarque uses an ironic tone to prove to us how brutal war is, and how it doesn't care about the lives it takes, proving this at the end of the novel when Paul himself dies.