Slaughter-House Five Chapter 4

In this chapter the observations that I have seen in the rest of the book are continued in many different ways. The most common one and the one that is clearer is the "So it goes". Every time death is mentioned it ends up with "So it goes". That is the authors way to show that death is but another thing to come that is totally inevitable and that comes to all no matter what kind of living thing it is. It is not only seen every time a human being dies but every time any kind of living thing dies. "The Americans´ clothes were meanwhile passing through poison gas. Body lies and bacteria and fleas were dying by the billions. So it goes."(Pg. 84)

The other thing that has continued to show in the novel was the presence of religious features such as Adam an Eve that show how the author compares the war with religion. "Everybody turned into a baby, and all humanity, conspired biologically to produce two perfect people named Adam and Eve, he supposed."(Pg 75)

In this chapter Billy continues to travel in time and goes back to the moment where he was kidnapped by aliens whose point of view of time and place is very different to that of humans and is very interesting for they don’t question anything but they feel it as if it was just something that is supposed to be.

The most interesting passage in this part of the book for my opinion is when Vonnegut describes a movie of the war but as if it was being showed from back to front, and so everything happens backwards. The rifles suck the bullets and the soldiers are haled instead of wounded.