The Role Of Death In Slaughterhouse-Five

Death is apart of life, it happens to everything and everyone. In the book Slaughterhouse-Five, the main character, Billy experiences WWII as a prisoner of war. He experiences all the different horrors of war that include the bombing of Dresden and the death of thousands of people. Throughout the book, Billy travels in time to different parts of his life, including his birth and death. Death is something that happens to everything that lives. Death happens everywhere. Every living thing dies in time, it is just apart of the circle of life. Throughout the book, the saying, “So it goes.”shows up many times. It means that death happens and life goes on. When billy is kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, Billy learns new things from