Reading Post #3

For this week I have decided to blog about Slaughterhouse-Five written by Kurt Vonnegut. This book explores many different kinds of realities and addresses all of the many types of war. While reading, I noticed that whenever somebody dies he uses the term "so it goes". From his perspective it is from the Trafalmadorians because they time time in one continuous stream. But what I think is actually happening is that he is using satire to play off the idea of death and making it not seem that bad. Like in All the King's Horses Billy Pilgrim almost becomes detached from death and thinks logically and without emotion.
The fact that he uses his life story for the first chapter and melds it into a story inside of a story, shows that many things that he says in this book he agrees with and advocates. Also his sense of skewed time shows how people remember things in many different ways but also shows how people can be thinking.

Also I think that Vonnegut added the dual title in order to almost bring in his sense of how he viewed that war, but then he could also have Billy's "title" of the book as well. Since the book is a mix of a war story with some autobiographical parts in it, Vonnegut was able to not just write another book but indirectly tell some things about his life and how they have affected him.