It 's interesting that they 're being placed in a building called a slaughterhouse. The slaughterhouse was originally meant for pigs as the guard describes but now it is a home for American prisoners of war. This is ironic because we know they will die in the slaughterhouse not because they 're being slaughtered but because the bombs that will soon come will kill them. Another ironic thing is that one of the characters named Derby sent a letter home saying that they were going to Dresden, which was the only safe city in Germany. It was the only city to this point that hadn’t been bombed and that could represent that bombings will happen in the future because the Americans don 't want to leave any cities behind so they 're obviously not going to leave one city untouched, so it could be a potentially bad situation for the prisoners. Chapter 7 could be quite the turning point in this book because in Dresden, more danger could
It 's interesting that they 're being placed in a building called a slaughterhouse. The slaughterhouse was originally meant for pigs as the guard describes but now it is a home for American prisoners of war. This is ironic because we know they will die in the slaughterhouse not because they 're being slaughtered but because the bombs that will soon come will kill them. Another ironic thing is that one of the characters named Derby sent a letter home saying that they were going to Dresden, which was the only safe city in Germany. It was the only city to this point that hadn’t been bombed and that could represent that bombings will happen in the future because the Americans don 't want to leave any cities behind so they 're obviously not going to leave one city untouched, so it could be a potentially bad situation for the prisoners. Chapter 7 could be quite the turning point in this book because in Dresden, more danger could