Friday, August 3, 2012

Entry 19, Chapter 10 - Stream of Consciousness

     In the ending chapter of the story, Vonnegut reveals his stream of consciousness which is his bluntness when it comes to his emotional jouney throughout the war. He dimly describes the corpse mines like they are nothing as," Billy and the Maori dug into the inert...they made a hole in the membrane. There was darkness and space under there." Vonnegut goes on through the chapter as if nothing was of sort or important, like the war was simply a blur to him, but in the back of his mind, and through his detailed descriptions of the past scenes, Vonnegut knows that what he had seen in Dresden was everlasting. His stream of consciousness was so monotone and completely uninterested as compared to his passed thoughts.

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