Entry 20, Chapter 10 - So It Goes...

   Vonnegut, mixed with his character of Billy Pilgrim reveal through the story extreme expression in his stories, but like I said, at the end, he seems to lose his expression. His trademark phrase "so it goes" really tells a reader that he himself is unaware if the rumor he had heard was even true, but towards the end, this phrase is used more and more often, creating an annoying repetition and montone, as if he was now viewing the rumors as completely untrue. Comapred to his past tone, he made me think that the statemnets were true, but in the last chapter, he showed me that he honestly thought taht the rumors were false.

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.

Entry 18, Chapter 9 - Recall the Good, Forget the Bad

     I recently read a book called Heart 2 Heart about a girl who lost her life in a crash crash who  made a decision to be a donor when she turned 16. Later on, the girl who recieved the deceased teenager's heart reached out to the best friend of her donor. During their visits, the bestfriend of the donor became very aware of the idea that she should always cherish the good moments because she never knew when her life would end. The girl who recieved the heart, was on the brink of death, and she made it clear to everyone in her life that everyday she wanted to remember only the good moments because she had experienced so many unhappy memories during her heart failure before the transplant. This book reinforced one of the themes of the book, remember the good and forget the bad.

Entry 17, Chapter 9 - Theme

     A theme, reinforced by the Tralfamadorians, is that we need to always remember the good moments and forget the bad memories. The natives of Tralfamadore were," to advise Billy to concentrate on the happy moments of his life, and to ignore the unhappy ones." Themes in stories are there to advise the readers to learn something about life and possibly enforce in their own lives. This theme about forgetting the terrible memories, I think, should be adopted by everyone.

Entry 16, Chapter 8 - Time Travel

     Traveling through time has been a reoccuring idea all throughout the book. The fact that Billy believes he is time traveling shows that the plane crash he was in really messed up his mind. In the media, time traveling has been something really cool to produce movies, books, etc. about from Disney movies like Minutemen, animated movies like Meet the Robinsons, and of course, in science fiction books like Michael Cricton's Timeline.  All of these were entertaining to watch and or read, but if we were to hear about it in real life, we would simply think of the stories as crazy and incredulous, but in the fictional world, we find these stories creative and imaginable. Billy time travels almost constantly throughout the book, making it quite hard to follow, but eventually the stories start to become familiar and you begin to realize that you are tracing his life, just in a different pattern.

Entry 15, Chapter 8 - Hubris

     Hubris is simply a tragic flaw that leads to a character's downfall. Billy begins his downfall with his status in society towards the end of his life because of his gullibility. Billy begins to believe everything he is seeing and reading in Kilgore Trout's science fiction books that lead to the crazy thoughts of Billy's that Tralfamodorians exist and abducted him. Later on, as Billy is giving a speech to people about the truths behind his Tralfamodorian friends, Lazarro comes and finds Billy years later and fulfills his threat of taking Billy's life. In the end, Billy becomes distanced from his family, optometry patients, and his life because of his belief that he had become unstuck in time. His daughter, his own flesh and blood blames," That Kilgore Trout," because he," is and was a science fiction writer...that anyone can become a friend of."

Entry 14, Chapter 7 - All Knowing?

     The plane crash Billy Pilgrim was involved with reminded so much of the movie Knowing with Nicholas Cage. In the movie, Nicholas Cage realizes that he has found a peice of paper with thousands of numbers on it that are in fact dates of castrophic events. He follows one of the dates to its location, and there he knows that something bad is going to happen and in fact moments later a place crashes into a fire ball along a highway. Just as Billy experienced, he knew that the event of the crash was going to happen yet he went along with it, just as Nicholas Cage did also. Plus, a plane ended up crashing in which Nicholas was to help save one survivor. Along with gruesome imagery, and pictures in the movie and in the book, Billy and Nicholas experience something very similar; Nicholas even had alien-like people following him!