Ch 10: End Post 2

As I related the first chapter to my life, I will relate the end chapter to my life.  At the end of the novel, Vonnegut goes back to Dresden with O'Hare.  I have visited the same place more than once too.  I've been to Puerto Rico twice, Strasburg twice, and will return to Spain again on Spring Break.  I go because I enjoyed the first trip and would like to return again.  Vonnegut's trip wasn't quite the same but he went back anyways and that's kind of the point.

Ch 10: End Post 1

The ending chapter's literary term is motivation.  Motivation is the reasoning behind a character's  behavior, like not dying.  Billy was a prisoner of war.  He had to do what the Germans told him or he would likely die. That's some decent motivation to do anything, including digging mines full of corpses that were soon to be torched by a flamethrower. Pleasant.

Ch 9: Random Post 2

In Chapter 9, Rumfoord tells the nurses that Billy has echolalia. Echolalia is an actual disorder that is exactly as it is described in Slaughterhouse-Five. When someone has echolalia, they repeat what they hear.  Rumfoord accuses Billy of having echolalia when he awakens in the hospital and tells Rumfoord that he was in Dresden during the bombing.

Ch 9: Random Post 1

Chapter 9, which I call "Random" because of the many, seemingly unrelated events, has a picture at the end which has an invocation in it.  It states, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference."  This prayer is on Montana Wildhack's locket as an invocation to God to help her in her life.

Ch 8: The Bombing Post 2

At the beginning of Chapter 8, a man, Howard W. Campbell Jr., recruits American POWs for the Free American Corps., a group of Americans that became Nazis.  In real life, there was a unit of the Waffen SS that was very similar to the Free American Corps.  It was known as the British Free Corps. and it recruited British POWs to the Nazi forces.  Like the Free American Corps., not many POWs joined.  Only 59 men were recruited during its course and at its maximum there were only 27 men in it.

Ch: 8 The Bombing Post 1

The Literary Term for "The Bombing" will be "Dead Metaphor" also known as a cliche.  The cliche used in Chapter 8 is "You think money grows on trees?"  That cliche is often used when someone asks for something extra but the person is not willing to pay for the expense.  It is used to signify that one cannot simply pluck money off of a tree but has to work for the money they earn.

Ch 7: Syrup Post 2

Syrup relates to many types of the same incident: the plane crash.  Over the years several planes have crashed, killing many, like in the TV show Lost, in which Oceanic Flight 815 lost 254 of the 324 passengers.  Some remain unconscious as Billy did, but like the plane in the book, most of the people die.  Unlike the book however, the survivors of the crash were not rescued while Billy Pilgrim was rescued by ski instructors.