“So Billy uncorked it with his thumbs. It didn't make a pop. The champagne was dead. So it goes”- Chapter four, pg. 73
So it
goes. What do you think when you hear this sentence? It may mean many things,
it could fit in different situations, it could relate to various topics. It
just states that things go on, time passes and things change, that's life; but,
what does it mean when Vonnegut uses it? I’ve come to realize that after a
death occurs in the book, so it goes. Vonnegut uses it after the decease of
someone. An utterly common event in war. This is one of the few things
that cannot be avoidable in war, it is something we have no control of. War means
death, and if there is war there is death.
This
book is dedicated to war, to the Dresden bombing in World War II. I believe Vonnegut is trying to convey the message that in war there is always going to be the
loss of life, that it something ordinary but, grotesque. That as there are so
many losses there is really no time to stop and think about it, just time to run
and protect yourself, its the place to be selfish and only think about me,
myself and I. It makes me think of
the holocaust, of how hundreds of jews died everyday but no one really cared, they were treated as something not worth living. Those hundreds of people who supported Hitler what were their reasons to follow him? To clean the world? To clean the world from what? Everyone is different and just because of their believes they are not less worth than others, not even by their skin color they should be classified as not pure, there is nothing like that. Everyone should be equal. Still, Vonnegut seems to have compassion to all of these deaths, as he writes about the Trafalmadorians and their thoughts about life and death. Which are about how when someone dies they are not truly dead, the just seem to be so. They may be dead in the future and present but, they're always in memories that come from the past, they continue to live in other places and times.
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