"BAM! BLAM BLAST POW! BOOM! WHIZ! *Grunt, wheeze, moans of pain , suffering, and anguish*" -- Derby's death
I won't even lie, the analysis for this blog was looked up online. But I wanted to reflect on how true it is. When the bird tweets that at Billy, It is almost as if this is a question. I used to wonder what the significance of this was. Yet now I realize that a bird asking Billy why humans did such things was sort of fit in with the theme of the novel. Why? Why did Derby get shot for a petty thievery amidst the destruction and death? Why was Dresden destroyed if it had no real military significance? Why a war in the first place? The bird is Vonnegut's reaction to what he saw in the days he was a prisoner of war. Why?
I wouldn't trust that bird because it was probably a communist. But I also think the poo-tee-weet is a motif in the story because it is utter nonsense. And Vonnegut establishes that there is nothing intelligent to say about war. War in itself is nonsense.
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