Monday, November 3, 2008
Chapter 3
This section of the book reminded me of the novel A LONG WALK; it's about a Polish POW who travels to Siberia to work in a labor camp. In the beggining they travel in a train and the conditions are almost identical. It's very shocking to learn about the dehuminization of Prisoners of War; of course it happens on both sides, The United States is generally more quiet and secretive about their atrocieties. This book has an underlying theme that war is just plain horrible. When Vonnegut uses the phrase "so it goes", it is always following some paradox that ends horribly. Some horrendous odity that is just life, it's just a part of it. Most people choose to ignore these things because they are just so bitter and morbid and depressing. The unsticking sections of the book are interesting and still an enigma to me, I don't quite understand their significance, but they do add to the overall feel of the novel. I like this book, but it is mind bending. An intruiging mind bending.
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yeah...it's kinda crazy to think of how ppl can actually treat others like that...even if they are prisoners, it's just so, so..cruel and in-human....or inhumane (however you say that). vonnegut's "so it goes" is just so clearly stated that it makes me think, like is it okay to just think that about certain things...i guess so, idk, im just ranting on about what's on my mind...hopefully it sorta makes sense...and yes i completely agree, it is a very intruiging mind-bending book...i like it too:)
If you think about it, war itself is dehumanizing. People take each others lives in the most horrid of scenarios. The effects that these experiences have on the psychey are quite "mind bending"/
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