How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
It was as if all the people in the world the whole two billion of them had been against him pushing the lid of the coffin down on him tamping the dirt solid against the lid rearing great stones above the dirt to keep him in the earth. (18.17)
Hopeless much? That's a lot of people who not only don't want to think about you, but who, by ignoring you, are actually against you. It seems like pretty much everyone thinks things would be a whole lot better if Joe would just die already. It's another way in which the victims of war are dehumanized in this novel, despite what people might say about honoring and remembering them.