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In this first chapter, we see that the book is based on real events. Vonnegut, like the narrator, is a veteran of World War II, an earlier prisoner of war, and a witness to a great massacre.Vonnegut shares with us that he can't write about the horror of Dresden. "There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre," but he feels that he has to say something. The book shows the author's struggle to find a way to write about what he saw so that it neither makes it seem good or bad. We keep this in the back of our minds as we read about Billy Pilgrim's life. The author is a character in the narrative. He is Kurt Vonnegut, the former POW, and he speaks of the many times he has tried and failed to write this book. It is Kurt Vonnegut, too, who says the first, "So it goes" after relating that the mother of his taxi driver during his visit to Dresden in 1967 was incinerated in the Dresden attack. "So it goes" is repeated after every death. It becomes a slogan. ralfamadorian philosophy (something you will find out about later). But because the phrase is first uttered by Vonnegut, writing as Vonnegut, each "So it goes" seems to come directly from the author.Chapter One also hints that time will be an important thing to
The same is true if you want to say what something is. He has had to travel to Tralfamadore to get it, and he has had to change his whole understanding of the world. Just like the narrator warned us in the first chapter: there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. The minerals are shipped to specialists all over the world who "hide them cleverly" in the ground, "so they never. A Tralfamadorian novel contains brief messages that describe events, scenes, and situations. But, the author has tried to say something intelligent. He felt like he was stuck inside a children's song that repeats itself again, and again, and again. The fact that we are locked into our fate: Billy's death is determined years before it happens when Roland Weary meets Paul Lazzaro. But Billy Pilgrim has no control over his time traveling. The Tralfamadorians only show the good moments of one's life. The expressions on the en's faces make him sick. The Tralfamadorians, (who see in four dimensions), look at all of an object and all of a person. Just like we don't always have control over our memories. One of the books many jokes about war occurs early in this chapter.
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