Slaughterhouse-Five is clearly an antiwar novel. All of Billy’s stories of war point out the bad aspects of people and life. He exemplifies death, murder, and the disgusting parts of human nature. Kurt Vonnegut repeats the phrase “so it goes” several times—always after death. He said Edgar Derby was killed in the war because he stole a tea pot… so it goes. He is always looking at war in a calm point of view, but at the same time disgusted. Vonnegut does not go into detail because everyone dies and not much matters when you are in a war. No one cares that you have a family or money back home, all they care about is winning for their country. The novel also points out that all those who are in the war are babies. He states that it is a “children’s crusade,” and the men do not all know what they are doing. The novel does not have a consistent structure. It is all jumbled up because nothing is really that significant and nothing will matter once something else happens. War is inevitable and will happen in every modern civilization. Kindness is the key to human nature.