Slaughter-house five: A Real Masacre

After today's discussion in class, about Billy Pilgrim's time travel, I kept thinking it was more of an allegorical reason. After all it is an anti-war book, Vonnegut must have done it to leave a clear message to the reader. 

"He was marking the boundary between the American and English sections of the compound"(Pg.144) What could this possibly mean? That even as allies, we fight. That there is nothing in common among us except hatred, vengeance and massacre.

If we see, Billy Pilgrim is the reflection of man kind, of how he goes through the world being an optometrist, curing the eyesight. But it will never be cured because, its not the eye, its what you see. We have been used to everything and letting it pass through our lives without finding a solution:"It was a familiar symbol from childhood."(Pg.144)

Billy never changed, even if he traveled through time. He was always the same coward, who went through life as miserable as ever, who was never content with anything and who was always hopeless.  That is what war is and how men are in war, something that never changes, it will always be useless and meaningless but always stuck in human mentallity.

 "Its time for me to be dead for a little while-and then live again"(Pg. 143) I relate this quote to how war sometimes ends, but somehow men always bring it up again.

Slaughter-House five time travels, to show how men really are.