Question 3

Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse 5 in a circular structure.The reader knows its end from the start, and the parts are filled in, from all segments of his life, as the Novel progresses. The author cannot use the usual linear narration because the book conforms with the idea of the effect of time, and how time doesn't matter in our lives.Especially because of the firebombing in Dresden and the killing of thousands and thousands of innocent people Vonnegut needs a form that does not appear to rationalize the events. He needed something like a fourth dimension.He tries to show us with this that each character is its own history, not something that exists and has history. Also with the phrase "So it goes" Kurt Vonnegut tries to tell us in an ironic way how dead people are just in a bad condition in this moment but in many other moments they are just fine. So it goes also shows us that the author saw so many people dying in World War 2 that if he would cry about every single one like we do, he wouldn't have any joy in life anymore. So it goes.