Entry 5, Chapter 3 - Mood

     Throughout chapter three, Billy is being sent through time from his days in the war to the days of his lucrative optometry practice. During his war days, he descibes the horrendous sights he saw when entering into Germany as a prisoner of war along with his friend Weary. The mood of this chapter is completely dreadful because of the detailed descriptions of dying prisoners like the colonel who wanted to be called "Wild Bob". Creating a dreadful mood in this chapter was done by gruesome descriptions and similes of bloody feet, dying soldiers, and lack of food. The treatment and environment around Billy was appalling as."in went water and loaves of black-bread and sausage and cheese and out came sh*t and piss and language." The mood of the chapter also created a sickening feeling. All in all, the prisoner trains and camps was somewhere the reader did not want to be.