It's Now Revenge

This diagram shows a similar opinion about war and revenge.

Vonnegut recently in the book has been highlighting several important aspects of war in order to show war wrong, as I said in my last blog post, but not until chapter six he started talking about revenge. "Anybody ever asks you what the sweetest thing in life is-- said Lazzaro, it's revenge" (pg. 139). Lazzaro before saying this had explained why nobody should mess with him, the if you touched him you better kill him right away because if not, he will kill you. He narrates how he killed a dog in a very cruel way, saying its sweet revenge. Lazzaro also has very distorted ways of looking at war. He says he isn't really angry at Germans because they were just doing what they were told to. He also wants to shoot another American soldier to prevent him from becoming a hero. Billy starts thinking about his death for a while but when he stops, Lazzaro continues to tell him about the people he would kill after the war. Later on, the author refers to Lazzaro  as "with rabies and a broken arm." This shows that Vonnegut is portraying Lazzaro as someone else who was corrupted by war, as he is crazy and has been harmed in war. Even if Lazzaro was that way before, the fact that all these prisoner hear what he says and do nothing means that it has become normal to them, because of war. At the end of chapter six, the author continues to show some of the bad things of war as he did before, and I mentioned on the previous blog. This is all evidence of that Vonnegut is portraying war as something wrong, as revenge and killing is something these corrupted characters do.