"So it goes", the main words i've read over and over, after Vonnegut's description of an episode in Billy's life. What could they possibly mean? Perhaps, the fact that he does not want to retell the details, but to stick to the immorality of the situation:"There were just six live colonels in there-and one dead one." "The germans carried the corpse out. The corpse was Wild Bob. So it goes." He, in a way makes the reader focus on the situation but with the,"so it goes" he wants to express the situation as Billy lived it, it was seen as something normal, not a big deal. But towards reality, he wants readers to see the consequences of men's actions, or sometimes men's fate.
That's what maybe Billy wanted to change. To foresee his life differently, to be someone else:"Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were, the past, the present, and the future."
These words, cleared my thought of Billy. Although he wanted to have a different life, to erase all the dreadful things he lived, to feel at least a bit happy. He could not, "Every often, for no apparent reason, Billy Pilgrim would find himself weeping." Thats the journey he is taking, to find if life is worth it after all the suffering. Vonnegut wants us to find it out by taking us back and fourth over time, searching for an answer to Billy's disgrace.
Maybe there was a reason for his weeping or disgrace, it was War. It created a void in his soul, making it impossible to move on. Those memories he had were not many, but they were hurtful, hunting his life up to the present: "The person who was performing the introduction was telling the major that Billy was a veteran, and that Billy had a son who was a sergeant in the green berets - in Vietnam."
His life was destined to live my the memories of war, how can you judge someone who was been haunted with the shadow of violence?
I'm glad to see you're asking the important questions.
ResponderEliminarPlease be careful when capitalizing.
Thats the Apostrophe?
in-morality = immorality