martes, 3 de marzo de 2009

"Poo-tee-weet?"

"There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped. Birds were talking. One bird said to Billy Pilgrim,"Poo-tee-weet?"(215) Billy Pilgrim's story ended in an earthling way, his life will go on but we will not hear of him ever again. The story ended in some extent happy for Billy, the idea of the green coffin-shaped wagon represents his happiest moment and the bird taking to Billy is like a symbol for peace. Birds don't sing in wars, the image of the bird talking to Billy as the last phrase in the novel ends the book peacefully and calmly. It is like saying after all the time traveling all the adventures and the dangerous moments Billy finally came out safely from war. We knew he was going to survive war though but it gives us like the satisfaction you get when you finish a long race. This image also leaves us like with intrigue to know what happens after, if Billy meets Vonnegut and O'Hare.
 "I was there. O'Hare was there."(212) Again I get to the conclusion that Billy Pilgrim was just a character Vonnegut invented to show war as he saw it but also to incorporate fiction into the book. Billy Pilgrim lived many of the things Vonnegut lived in the war and so they had to be in some of the places Vonnegut passed through together. Vonnegut survived Dresden bombing, Billy survived Dresden Bombing, they are one of the few fortunate people that could do this. They are connected they are the same person one is the writer and the other one is "Dante the Pilgrim".
I liked the book its level of thinking is very complex it opened my mind to the 4th dimension. I liked the novel because it was like reading various stories at the same time that would connect at the end. I still had many questions like why Tralfamadorians, literally what does Kilgore Trout represent.  Why does Vonnegut include nonlinear time in the book?

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