Its funny how anti war this book really is, its written about privates which is the lowest form of a solider. They don't choose to be there they are forced to be in battle, it also focuses on prisoners of war, people kept captive. The villains in this book are the characters who love the art of killing, who romanticizes it.
Its quite arbitrary that right after we read Night we stumble across this book, however this book is written from the complete and other side of everything. Night focuses on a young Jewish boy, and this book is focused on an American soldier, the Americans where fighting for the jews (and all of Europe) but you couldn't imaging someone so different. However reading this book sparks a lot of different ideas which then solidify to be a pretty identical to meaning that Night had. Its funny how similar I find these books. Maybe Vonnegut wanted to show the struggle it had emotionally on Billy, and how that struggle was very similar, to the one Ellie had emotionally and physically.
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