![]() ![]() Nobody talked much as the expedition crossed the moon. The people climbing them learned that they were treacherous, jagged things-hot to the touch, often unstable-eager, should certain important rocks be disturbed, to tumble some more, to form lower, more solid curves. This metaphor is found in the passages, "The curves were smooth only when seen from a distance. In chapter eight, there were numerous metaphors, but there was one extended metaphor that caught my attention. After reading on this topic, it actually makes a lot sense and is a great theme for the novel. This was a topic that I had difficulties understanding and had to research. He criticizes humans with the hope that we will learn to behave Picture", they wouldn't do things like bomb the city of Dresden, treat each otherĬruelly, etc. Vonnegut uses the Tralfamadorian view of their lives, and Billy's time Vonnegut's thought is that, if humans could see, or would think about the "whole Humanity doesn't understand the consequences of their actions. Humanity doesn't see the "whole picture". See consequences of their actions at the time they act.īilly's ability to see consequences is the important part of his time travel. The Tralfamadorians experience all ofĮxistence at any given time, thus they see their existence as a whole. Billy's time traveling is what all Tralfamadorians, an alien race, experience. When first reading chapter two, the reader was introduced to the main character, Billy, who could time travel. Vonnegut, throughout the novel, has been trying to show that war is pointless, and death will be suffered even by the winning side. This green wagon is Vonnegut's way of demonstrating this theme. In conclusion, the green coffin-shaped wagon had a deeper purpose in symbolizing death of the survivors in several ways. Billy did not grasp the emptiness of victory in war until he sees the condition of the horses, which are pitiful. ![]() The death of the innocence of the "babies" that had fought in the war. I believe the wagon symbolizes that even though it may seem like a time of happiness, being the victor of war, the survivors of the war still suffered symbolic death. The death of their feeling of living a meaningful life. While reading further in the chapter, I started to think of the odd wagon and what was its purpose. When I first read this passage, I did find it very strange that Vonnegut would describe the wagon as being coffin-shaped, but that all I though of it. Billy and five other Americans prisoners were riding in a coffin-shaped green wagon, which they found abandoned, complete with two horses, in a suburb of Dresden" (Vonnegut 194). Billy closed his eyes, traveled in time to a May afternoon, two days after the end of the Second World War in Europe. This symbol is the green coffin-shaped wagon that Billy and other soldiers are riding in, after the war. The symbol that is my topic of discussion is something that I first read over without giving much thought to it. ![]()
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