Friday, August 3, 2012
Chapter 10, Motif
Throughout chapter ten, there are many more deaths. After Vonnegut mentions a death, he always uses the phrase, "So it goes." For example, when he speaks of his fathers death, he says, "My father died many years ago now- of natural causes. So it goes" (210). There is a great deal of death throughout the novel, and therefore the phrase is repeated many times. I believe that the phrase is used to portray the fact that life goes on and that death is inevitable. In chapter ten, there is also an end to the war, and a point where Billy is thankful for the happy times in his life, even though he found most of it meaningless.
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Great post. Death is inevitable, and the repetition of the phrase "so it goes" really nails in that concept throughout Slaughterhouse-Five.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, that the phrase relates to the quote, "So it goes on" Although we cannot control life, we still have to keep going through the good and bad.
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