Friday, August 3, 2012
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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The Hurricane Katrina connection is excellent. Basically, Dresden had become a wasteland and nothing really was there any more. Katrina devastated New Orleans in a very similar way to the Dresden bombing. Excellent comparison.
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