Monday, November 3, 2008
chapter 3 reader response.
I think it's sad that Billy has to take himself back in time to actually be content with his life. He has to live through past memories to make it through each day. On the other hand i understand why he has to do that, because he is going through a really hard time in the present. For example, he is being trapped on a train in a boxcar where he barely has food and water or a place to go to the bathroom. I also don't like how he refers to death as "so it goes". It's depressing that he has experienced so much pain in his life that he doesn't even have the heart to care about if someone died or not. An example of this phrase is when his dog Spot died. He was close with his dog, it was his companion, yet he didn't care. He has completely lost his soul, through the horrid experiences in being a prisoner of war. He uses time travel as an outlet to forget about death and pain.
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Well I don't think it's depressing, its just is.... "so it goes" Lol. But I mean, it is all because he went to war. I think it is good that Kurt Vonnegut writes this way because it's realistic and it happens in real life when people only think about these soilders as heros. Another factor about this whole hero thing is that they do horrible stuff to the people in that country as the book and Jones explained to us. Idk, I really like how he write and how he describes everything as such a little detail and almost unimportant fact in his life.
I really agree on the fact that he uses time travel as an outlet to leave the present time. It is sad that he has to relate to everything as "so it goes" but i think its because he doesnt want to bring up the past pains he has had.
yeah...... lol. Pff ali just isn't as evil as we are. pfffff. ali.... pfff.
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