In college lit we had to pick a passage from Slaughter House-Five that we thought was interesting. My passage was on page 82 at the very bottom.
"Billy passed within a yard of him. There was barbed wire between them. The Russian did not wave of speak, but he looked directly into Billy's soul with sweet hopefulness, as though Billy might have good news for him-news he might ber too stupid to understand, but good news all the same."
I thought this was interesting because of the way it was Kurt wrote it. "...but he looked directly into Billy's soul with sweet hopefulness..."
This is my favorite part of the passage because I can see the expression like a little kid on christmas morning with the sweet hopefulness for their presents.
Another part of this passage that I found interesting was "...news he might be to stupid to understand, but good news all the same." This part I feel that Billy is seeing the Russian as an inferior being. But he will think the news is good so he will do the thing where you just smile and nod. This is why I found this passage interesting.
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Good blog. To tell the truth I wouldn't have ever even looked twice at that part of the book but now after reading your blog I can picture it ten times better!
Great Blog!!! :)
I also didn't think much about that passage as I read it. The passage I chose was the poem on Billy's wall that said we should only change the things that we could, and leave the others alone. It then said Billy couldn't change the past, present, or future. That went along with the theme of no free-will that was throughout the book.
now that I have read it i think that is pretty cool. I never noticed this when I was reading which is probally because I didn't interpret alot of what vonnegut wrote. but i really did like this quote
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