Monday, November 3, 2008
Reeader response Ch. 3
"There was so much to see- dragon's teeth, killing machines, corpses with bare feet that were blue and ivory. So it goes." Vonnegut uses this saying, so it goes, for every death or bad thing that happens throughout the book. At first I got annoyed with how blunt he was about people dying or being tortured. I felt that only a cold hearted person could act like they didnt give a sh*t about innocent soldiers or people dieing. Then it came to me, the reason why Vonnegut did not get into detail about the horrid things his main character sees throughout the book, he was the main character, he was the one who saw the many people get shot. Kurt Vonnegut had no interest in re-living these life changing events so he simply said so it goes.
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haha. ..... so it goes indeed.
i completely agree. It is sad how he continues to fail to describe the horridness of each event in detail, although i do understand why. I can't say that if i was the person who experienced it that i would want to describe it in detail either.
I really like how he says here it goes. I think it says like yea this guy died but he died bitching about it is not going to change the fact that he,she, or it died. its like life goes on. so i agree with you DeV!
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