Poo-Tee-Weet

Throughout the book I've been observing its anti-war nature, as it is presented in the first chapter so I decided to read it from that perspective. Everyone knows that World War Two was horrible and that something similar should never happen again, so Vonnegut conveys that message in a creative way so that the reader doesn't fell like its just another book about war. Unlike many war books, Billy, the main character, is not a great person you can relate with and, thus, feel sorry for him, but he is instead a crazy person very distinct from most readers, so you can feel like war has damaged him. As he doesn't portray characters as familiar, he doesn't either try to make the reader feel or understand the massacres and the horrible parts of WWII, Vonnegut proves that making sense out of war is impossible. You cannot feel how it's like to fight and to see others die, it is a complete atrocity that simply shouldn't happen. With the parses "So it goes." and "Poo-tee-weet," you can see how he achieves that. So it goes, as I explained in a previous blog post, shows how war and death are not important, life goes on. Vonnegut writes that to show the irony in war, we might be saving people in war but others still die. Similarly, with "Poo-te-weet," he show the irony in war and, again, how we don't think war through. In a book about WWII, where millions of people died, he says out the sound of a bird, unintelligent and in-descriptive. Vonnegut, with this juxtaposition, shows how there is no answer for war. It simply shouldn't happen.