Slaughter House Five

Slaughterhouse Five is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II. The main character of the book is a disoriented and ill-trained American soldier called Billy Pilgrim, who has unstuck in time and experiences the past and future out of sequence.

By the description of what Billy sees during his trip, Vonnegut shows the brutality and coldness to the reader vividly. So, when the war outbreaks, the war is just a war. There is no way to identify what is justice or evilness, humbleness or nobleness. Both side of the war is just following the footsteps of the time, facing the incendiary bombs, concentration camps, he soap made from the body grease, and the death. One thing I noticed in the book was the repetition of "So it goes". All the sad things  in the novel, including Billy's pensioner period, the Dresden Bombing, plane crash of his father-in-law, wife's death, were concluded by "So it goes". Does it really go that easily? No, the author uses black humor to reflect how terrible the war is.