Slaughter Done!
“Poo-tee-weet” is a creative way in which the author pretty much summarizes the massacre that took place. This shows the emptiness that the war leaves when its over. When a massacre takes place there are an incredible amount of deaths and fatal weapons used and the only ones that are able to say anything about the fight are the birds. In which the birds don't even have much do say because of how pointless the fighting was, there were so many deaths and for what? Something that people believed in? ultimately was it more important than ones life? That is what I think Vonnegut is trying to point out. In the beginning of the book he says that he is trying to write an anti-war book and with this quote “Poo-tee-weet” it just illustrates the worthlessness of war and massacres.
Something that I got from this book is that all actions that you make, past or present, will directly influence actions or events that happen in the future. Billy literally went through all of the moments of his life and he relived everything. He didn't change a thing and he knew what was to come when he did travel to a different time in his life. There was that possibility that if he did change anything when he was reliving a moment, he would change future events. I believe that everything just happens for a reason and I think that is very vivid here in this novel. It seems like everything that happens to Billy is just horrific such as Valencia dying on her way to the hospital and when he was a lone survivor in a plane crash but what is very motivational for me is that Billy found a way to cope with these horrific events and still live his life. Sure the whole tralfs thing sounds crazy but it was a way for him to put reason to why things happen which actually helped him with his PTSD
