Entry 8, Chapter 4 - Frozen

     The epithet of "blue and ivory" in Slaughterhouse-Five is an appalling phrase that makes you recall dead bodies that have frozen from extreme cold or the repulsive frost-bite one gets in extreme cold. Whenever Pilgrim used this phrase to describe the frozen and dead bodies of people around him, I couldn't help but remember the dramatic movie The Day After Tomorrow, when a climate shift from global warming freezes over the northern half of the United States, and a group of students find themself in New York City freezes to death and witnessing the castrophe the world had never seen.  The scenes in the movie show ice cold bodies practically as hard as ivory frozen to the streets of New York, and even a picture of the Statue of Liberty buried to its torso and covered in icicles. The repition of this phrase makes me wonder if there is more death and peril to come in the cold days of the war.