Theme Of Death In Slaughterhouse Five

In the beginning of a person lives, their death can come at any moment. For young adults journeying through trying to find their meaning for existing often the times the answer can simply be that there is no meaning. One’s life is in reality signifys nothing because it all disappears once death calls their names.IN Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse Five we meet the question asked as; since life always ends in death, how can it have meaning?” The novel 's protagonist, Billy Pilgrim he ventures through life after being a prisoner of war while surviving a bombing that took place in …show more content…
The color of his feet could be a symbol of how Billy is dead, or at least mentally dead from the war and the Tralfamadorians, he waits for so he can feel alive and put a meaning back into his life. When living with the aliens he even starts a new family with a model superstar. He gets her pregnant where he lives in a zoo that feels like he’s at home on earth. Everything seems to be an upgrade from his earlier life. Nothing new to a person who wants a fresh new start, some from a new career, meet new people or just completely disappear and start a whole new life. These seek meaning to life which why they get to this point such as Billy. After the Dresden massacre Billy cannot grasp why he’s still alive. Billy having been cooped up in a slaughterhouse left only irony for being the only people to survive because they were in the slaughterhouse. Nothing at the moment made sense and from that day on nothing mattered. Billy had witness innocent civilians’ dreams goals and lives be gone in the most horrid of ways. For a time Billy tried to find meaning to why he survived, why they all died but he couldn’t.