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After the Dresden bombing Billy and his fellow prisoners are put to the task of digging up the dead bodies. They were everywhere in the rubble and the body count was very high. The had to dig them up and then dispose of them. This reminds me a lot of the after effects of 9/11. After the twin towers fell, fire fighters had to dig through the rubble to find any survivors and the bodies that laid beneath. It is an awful thing that both Billy and the fire fighters had to do, but then again, so were the attacks made on Dresden and New York...

Chapter 10 Post 1

At the beginning of this chapter Vonnegut takes a break from the story and uses some first person narrative. He give us insight from his point of view rather than the character's. He talks about past events in his life, including the death of his father: "My father died many years ago now- of natural causes" (210). Soon after he goes back to his other narrative style and continues to the end of the story.

Chapter 9 Post 2

At one point during this chapter, Billy notices that all of the city is deserted, because the Germans heard the Russians are coming. Billy basically has the whole city to himself. He was able to go around and take whatever he wanted from the city. This reminded me a lot of the days after hurricane Katrina. Once New Orleans was flooded and everyone was gone, looters came and stole whatever they could. This is basically exactly what Billy was doing in Dresden.

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This chapter begins with Billy still in the hospital after his plane crash accident. When he wakes up there is a man in the bed next to him. This man is a college professor. He is writing a paper on the booming success of the Dresden raid. He said that it was kept a secret for so long "for fear that a lot of bleeding hearts might not think it was such a wonderful thing to do" (191). I feel that this makes him a stock character. I say this because a lot of military and media people hide the real truth just to keep people from getting upset. People should have known about the raid as soon as it happened but they kept it from them just as the media does a lot of the time today. This, to me, makes his a very stereotypical character.

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In parts of this chapter we find Billy in the middle of a bomb raid in Dresden. He and the other Americans were put in an old meat locker for protection. Sometimes these raids were false alarms and this reminded me of the book The Children of Willesden Lane. This is a book about the kindertransport during World War II. She is in an orphanage and they are constantly interrupted by these bomb raids where they have to go to shelter for cover, and much like Billy's situation they were often times false alarms.

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In this chapter we meet a commander of a unit that was supposed to only fight on the Russian front. His name is Howard W. Campbell. When we meet him, Vonnegut introduces him with direct characterization. He writes, "Campbell was an ordinary-looking man, but he was extravagantly costumed in a uniform of his own design. He wore a ten-gallon hat and black cowboy boots..." (162) and continues to give us a word for word description of this new character. Vonnegut is very detailed and leaves nothing up the imagination which makes this direct characterization.

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In a way this feels very similar to the movie series Final Destination. In these movies, the main character always knows how everyone around them will die. They then try to save all of them but have no luck saving them. In Billy's case he knew that the plane would crash, but he could not stop it from happening because every moment is trapped like a bug in amber.