Monday Reading Blog

While reading Chapter Two from the book Slaughter-House Five (underlined) written by Kurt Vonnegut I intended to compare this piece of writing with my own life. In the least I believe I am not losing my mind, and fortunately I have not had any event in life which could suggest so. That I can remember, the worst accident I have experienced (concerning my head) was falling head first against a steel pole. It happened during gimnastics training after an intent of making a roll in the air. Well, as an effect of this I only ended up with a strange bump in the top of my head.
The most interesting paragraph from the whole chapter was in page 27 with the writing of the second letter to the newspaper. The idea of the Tralfamadorians, about life and death and time really made me think. Supposedly when a person dies it only appears it. It is just the perfect idea to console a deeply injured heart from the idea of loss. The commentary that states the controversial idea that we live in an illusion which makes us think that once a moment has passed it has gone forever. "So it goes."
I feel personally attracted to these ideas, which apply to me in a special way, since it will happen to all of us one day. So I conclude from this segment of the book that; Death, accompanied hand by hand with the cruelty of War are the reasons poor Billy Pilgrim has gone nuts.

From this fragment of the book what shocked me the most was the first sentence, which strangely enough, the author gives special importance. "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."(page 23) As reading this a strange envy rised, it would be so cool to have this same power! After a few sentences my feeelings became illusions, then collapsed. He did not have control of it. Besides this, the war stories he has to perish through are agonizing, which gave me the idea that each event or object could perfectly be used as punishent in the Inferno of Dante Alighieri. I feel sorry for the cause of the violence Weary uses, but I do hate the character, he is such a bully and disgusting person. I even dislike his name, it gives a weary sensation. But I feet even more sorry for Billy, his craziness based on unexpected time changes and his wishes to die, gives such a hopeless emotion.