Blog 9

While reading Slaughterhouse-five, Vonnegut describes many different death scenes, some real, and some that must be made up. He uses the phrase, “so it goes” after every single death he describes. In doing this, he is essentially making every death he describes very nonchalant. He will describe a death in very good detail, but then will end it with this phrase. The entire book is written in a nonchalant  tone, therefore the mood the book gives off is very unemotional. Even though it is written like this, the detail that he uses in describing different events and death shows that even though on the surface, it is very unemotional, underneath, there is a lot of emotion in recalling these past events.