Chapter 1 (Connection)

Throughout chapter one, Vonegut begins to confront his past and accept what the future holds. He realizes that war will happen and there is no changing that sad fact. The realization that somethings in life cannot be stopped brings me to a recent experience with one of my close friends. We had both been busy for the past few months and it seemed that we had been drifting apart. Relationships end: it's yet another sad fact of life. Realizing that war, like a realtionship coming to an end, will happen is a major theme that Vonegut is beginning to shed light on.

Chapter 1 (Lit Terms)

At the beginning of the chapter, Vonegut talks about the conflict of war and his anitwar book. It seems that he might have an internal conflict with war and what it creates. He realizes the distruction that war causes and the long-lasting effects that it has on all aspects of life. Vonegut compares war to an always moving glarcier and "what he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to top as glarciers" (pg 3). He then takes a trip to Dresend where begins flashback to the firebombing.