“World War Two in Europe was over” (274). This quote from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, is from last few pages of the book, which are particularly enlightening as to what Vonnegut’s opinion about war is, because of how he uses his experience from World War II. Using imagery and diction, Vonnegut shows that when explaining war, there is not much to say about it that’s intelligent and makes sense. Diction is used by the author in that his word choice shows why war is hard to describe. Vonnegut’s use of diction is evident in the last line of the book, “Poo-tee-weet?”(Vonnegut 275), because it’s something a bird said to Billy, the main character. It isn’t supposed to make sense because of its underlying meaning, which is that war doesn’t
