Slaughter House Five Blog Post #1

I think Vonnegut explains the horrors of war in a unique comedic way in that when he is pitching a book idea to one of his friends he explains the climax in a sarcastic yet humorous manner. "The irony is so great. A whole city gets burned down, and thousands and thousands of people are killed. And then this one American foot soldier is arrested in the ruins for taking a teapot." I think he re-sensitizes us to what war really is and how it is not how we see it in the movies.