The Endless Timetravel

I was very disappointed to come to the end of the book, with "World War two in Europe was over" (215). That was Vonnegut's way of ending Slaughter House-Five, which was king of mediocre.  We end up expecting another chapter, but unfortunately half of the story is opened to personal approaches. 

It has come to the end of Billy Pilgrim, his unresolved story has ended with the "Poo-tee-weet"(215). We didn't even get the chance to understand Billy's misery, his reason for time traveling or many other things that opened doubts to readers. 

What really made me think was how Vonnegut prepared the reader for the ending, this was more frustrating because when you read you don't pay attention to the details. Vonnegut wrote at the beginning of Chapter 1, "with a breath like mustard and gases"(4), then in Chapter 10 he comes back to the beginning, "But then the bodies rotted and liquified, and the stick was like roses and mustard gases"(214). Obviously it is not a coincidence, Vonnegut must have wrote it to relate it to something. Perhaps death? Failure? Memories? Maybe how we lose our conscience when we are drunk as when we are dead, or how we keep on living rotting inside. It is interesting how an author can twist information and make a reader think. 

This novel needs to be read closely otherwise Vonnegut's real message wouldn't be evident.

Billy's little journey through time was the way Vonnegut used to express his anti-war position capturing people's attention through irony and time travel. 

Vonnegut's last words were, "there was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two horses. The wagon was green and coffin shaped" (215). Its the end of the war, of Vonnegut's attempt to change the human mind. Thats the coffin, the end of something, a stored memory that will never fade.

We don't realize that not everything has an ending...