Maybe Not That Useless

After Chapter four, I was extremely disappointed with the book. I was actually enjoying it, the book reflected a clear perspective of the loneliness soldiers could get to feel in something as useless as war. It showed the atrocious acts in war and how it has no point. But most important of all a person's feelings in it,"He sincerely believed that he would shatter like glass."(Slaughter House-Five pg 81) I was  really into it, its hard for a writer to make a reader feel compassionate, but that was what Konnegut was doing, at least in my case. 

But you know how all happiness ends quite quickly. It ended for me with the "The flying saucer"(Slaughter House-Five pg 75) its so unreal. Its as if Konnegut didn't have anymore to write. What is  the point of it? Is "Trafalmadore" trying to say something? Because I just cant seem to get anything out of it.  I understand the way he is traveling through time, its quite interesting, but its really getting out the sense of the story. Its suppose to be an anti-war book, but how can a Trafalmadorian express that topic?

My questions  were all  answered, as I read the chapter. The chapter showed how " Billy was guided by dread and the lack of dread."(Slaughter House-Five Pg. 73)   He looses family, friends and even is blamed of someone's death.  He felt alone in german lines, and he was hopeless.

It took me some time to understand that perhaps, even if I don't like it or see the point, there is  a reason for Trafalmadore: a place that can open Billy's eyes, showing him that there is no escape or change in his life. That he is and will always be "Trapped in another blob of amber."   (Slaughter House-Five Pg. 85) 

So we can just go back again to the same citation that may clear it all: "Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past,the present and the future."( Slaughter House-Five Pg. 60) 

Maybe that is war, something with no change, no matter the reason, it will always be hopeless.