This is a very interesting chapter; Billy starts of in the hospital at WWII the day he will leave to Dresden. A very interesting story comes from one of the strangest characters in the book Paul Lazzaro. Paul says he ones killed a dog in a horrible way because it attacked him and that there is nothing sweeter than revenge. This story made me have a very strange feeling which was then proved right when Billy having jumped in time a couple if times comes to the moment of his death, one of the most interesting parts of the whole book. "At that moment, Billy´s high forehead is in the cross hairs of a high-powered laser gun. It is aimed at him from the darkened press box. In the next moment, Billy Pilgrim is dead. So it goes."(Pg 143) Billy knew he was going to be shot but did nothing because he had learned like Trafalmadorians that death was just another moment. It is very interesting that he is killed with such a futuristic weapon given the time he was killed (1976) because this way Vonnegut shows how he thinks that weapons and technology is developing very rapidly.
In the end of this chapter the Slaughter-House is finally mentioned, for its the place where Billy and the other American soldiers will stay in Dresden. It was first a killing place for all animals destined to be made into food, but all the animals had been eaten at war. Billy is made to memorize the name of the place in German in case he gets lost, which is very interesting because it means that even though they are prisoners they are going to be able to walk freely around town. In Dresden everybody expected to see Americans as very big strong man that could kill hundreds in battle, but when the Americans come out of the boxcar as they were very skinny badly fed and harmless. The interesting thing is the image that the U.S. army had to other nations that thought that it was almost undefeatable. "Still- they were expected to earn obedience and respect from tall, cocky, murderous infantrymen who had just come from all the killing at the front." (Pg 149) this shows the respect that others have towards the U.S. army.
This is the chapter in the book in which there is less jumping in time, Billy only jumps around one or two times. This could have been done in order to give some specific events such as his death or the arriving to the Slaughter-House more importance and for them to stand out to the reader.
In the end of this chapter the Slaughter-House is finally mentioned, for its the place where Billy and the other American soldiers will stay in Dresden. It was first a killing place for all animals destined to be made into food, but all the animals had been eaten at war. Billy is made to memorize the name of the place in German in case he gets lost, which is very interesting because it means that even though they are prisoners they are going to be able to walk freely around town. In Dresden everybody expected to see Americans as very big strong man that could kill hundreds in battle, but when the Americans come out of the boxcar as they were very skinny badly fed and harmless. The interesting thing is the image that the U.S. army had to other nations that thought that it was almost undefeatable. "Still- they were expected to earn obedience and respect from tall, cocky, murderous infantrymen who had just come from all the killing at the front." (Pg 149) this shows the respect that others have towards the U.S. army.
This is the chapter in the book in which there is less jumping in time, Billy only jumps around one or two times. This could have been done in order to give some specific events such as his death or the arriving to the Slaughter-House more importance and for them to stand out to the reader.
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