Death, who knew that such a small word could have such a tremendous impact on those around us, on some more than others. Death shows its ugly face in the book Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut wrote about a man named Billy Pilgrim who travels in time, whether he likes it or not. Billy hops through time from when he was in the war to when he was in the zoo on a different planet. With Billy’s time traveling fate, it reveals the true viney fingers that his fear of death really has on him. It ties him down and forces him to relive the good and the bad memories. Vonnegut’s anti-war book was solely based around the two topics of death and depression generating Billy Pilgrim's story, In Vonnegut’s book, Slaughterhouse Five, his intent
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In this book, every time someone passes away the paragraph always ends with “so it goes.” This generates the idea that Billy has no control over the death; thus leading to the conclusion of his fear of time. Billy has no control of who dies and who doesn’t, so it goes. “Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is “so it goes’” (Vonnegut 34). Moreover, this shows that “so it goes” may be one of his coping methods for death, leading the reader to the conclusion that Billy may be depressed from death causing him to create a world that says what he wants to …show more content…
They were created by his mind as a way to stop his constant worrying about death. They are the ones that tell him how to react to time. They were the first ones to explain to Billy the “so it goes” statement when it came to death. They are the ones who explained to him timetravel, telling him that time cannot be altered and that what happens, happens. They told Billy how Earth would be blown up by one of their pilots accidently when testing their new fuels. Billy asks them why they can’t stop him from pressing the button and they reply: “‘He has always pressed it, and he always will. We always let him and we always will let him. The moment is structured that way” (Vonnegut
In this book, every time someone passes away the paragraph always ends with “so it goes.” This generates the idea that Billy has no control over the death; thus leading to the conclusion of his fear of time. Billy has no control of who dies and who doesn’t, so it goes. “Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is “so it goes’” (Vonnegut 34). Moreover, this shows that “so it goes” may be one of his coping methods for death, leading the reader to the conclusion that Billy may be depressed from death causing him to create a world that says what he wants to …show more content…
They were created by his mind as a way to stop his constant worrying about death. They are the ones that tell him how to react to time. They were the first ones to explain to Billy the “so it goes” statement when it came to death. They are the ones who explained to him timetravel, telling him that time cannot be altered and that what happens, happens. They told Billy how Earth would be blown up by one of their pilots accidently when testing their new fuels. Billy asks them why they can’t stop him from pressing the button and they reply: “‘He has always pressed it, and he always will. We always let him and we always will let him. The moment is structured that way” (Vonnegut