Theme

In chapter 8, one of Vonnegut's themes through out the book is very prevalent. In this chapter, Billy is down in the meat locker while Dresden is being bombed. The author states: "When the Americans and their guards did come out, the sky was black with smoke. The sun was an angry little pinhead. Dresden was like the moon now, nothing but minerals. The stones were hot. Everybody else in the neighborhood was dead," (227). This quote emphasized the destruction of war. The theme is that war is  awful and insane and that all it does is destroy. The war destroyed many lives and towns and had an awful after effect.