All Quiet on the Western Front: Remarque’s Epigraph
Below is the epigraph from All Quiet on the Western Front. Read the epigraph, and answer the following questions. Be sure to give thorough explanations for your answers.
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try to simply tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.
- Erich Maria Remarque
1) Using a dictionary, define “epigraph.” (Be sure to find the most relevant definition.)
2) Remarque says that this book is not intended to be what? What does he mean by this?
3) In the second sentence, Remarque describes the intended purpose of the novel. Explain this statement.
4) Why do you think that Remarque included the first sentence? Why did he not just limit the epigraph to the second sentence?
5) From your interpretation of the epigraph, what would you say is the central theme of All Quiet on the Western Front?
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