"It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be quiet after a massacre, and it always is except for the birds."
I think everything in the book is great. The way it was written and Billy’s pitiable life explicitly convey Vonnegut’s message about war. Just like what this quote states, everybody at the end of the war is going to die, and that is exactly what happed. Billy died and it was expected.
However, I really didn’t like the way he died. He was killed by Lazzaro, a filthy car thief fizzing with rabies, who believes that it was Billy’s fault that Weary died of gangrene. This guy believes that revenge is the sweetest thing and enjoys keeping a mental list of the people he is going to get killed after the war. When I first read about his disgusting physical condition and how he killed a dog, I disliked him a lot. Later, when he said that he was going to get Billy killed, I didn’t think that he would actually make it till after the war. Afterwards, when I realised that Billy gets killed by that psychopath, I was dissatisfied. It wouldn’t really change the major message of this book if Billy had died from natural causes.
Other than that I thought everything else was fine, and that it really gets Vonnegut’s point across to the reader.
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