Friday, May 21, 2010

#3 significance of structure

Through out Slaughter House Five the events in the story are completely out of order, I think the author did this to show how irrelevant time is in our lives. Kurt Vonnegut wanted to prove his point of how time doesn't exist, events have always happened and always will happen, it doesn't matter when. Also, this structure supports the idea of how death is inevitable and actually a beautiful thing, it will always happen to everyone no matter what, when it happens is just an idea, it's always happened. This relates to the phase "so it goes" because everything that is going to happen will happen no matter what, so it goes on. In the beginning of the book Vonnegut pretty much tells you all that's going to happen because it doesn't matter when you find out, everything has always happened and always will. Time is non-existent and you see this through out this novel, because of unordered events and the casualty of death. So it goes.

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major said...
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Hannah Banana! said...

I agree that Vonnegut doesn't believe in time and that death is irrelevant. It makes perfect sense in relation to the novel.