Irony
Irony: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning (Merriam Webster Dictionary)
Of the four soldiers wandering behind enemy lines after the Battle of the Bulge, Billy Pilgrim is the least soldierly and least likely to survive. He's the only one who survives. He also survives the incineration of Dresden, not bad for an unfit prisoner of war. He is also the lone survivor of an airplane crash.
Edgar Derby is tried and executed for plundering after stealing a teapot from the rubble in Dresden after the entire city and its inhabitants are destroyed.
Billy Pilgrim exercises free will in an effort to preach that there is no such thing as free will.
In chapter one, Vonnegut mentions that those who are most opposed to the war are those who fought in it.
Billy Pilgrim has all the outward signs of a good life but is miserable inside.
Billy Pilgrim uses an inconsequential Science Fiction writer as his guide in life.
Billy can't sleep at night and can't stay awake at work.
Billy's backwards viewing of the war movie illustrates the cause and effect relationship between events that Tralfamadorians insist does not exist.
Billy's happiest moment in life occurs as he rests on a coffin shaped carriage drawn by two horses. This happy moment is interrupted after seeing the deplorable state of the horses, a sight that causes him to cry for the first time during the war.
Irony: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning (Merriam Webster Dictionary)
Of the four soldiers wandering behind enemy lines after the Battle of the Bulge, Billy Pilgrim is the least soldierly and least likely to survive. He's the only one who survives. He also survives the incineration of Dresden, not bad for an unfit prisoner of war. He is also the lone survivor of an airplane crash.
Edgar Derby is tried and executed for plundering after stealing a teapot from the rubble in Dresden
Of the four soldiers wandering behind enemy lines after the Battle of the Bulge, Billy Pilgrim is the least soldierly and least likely to survive. He's the only one who survives. He also survives the incineration of Dresden, not bad for an unfit prisoner of war. He is also the lone survivor of an airplane crash.
Edgar Derby is tried and executed for plundering after stealing a teapot from the rubble in Dresden after the entire city and its inhabitants are destroyed.
Billy Pilgrim exercises free will in an effort to preach that there is no such thing as free will.
In chapter one, Vonnegut mentions that those who are most opposed to the war are those who fought in it.
Billy Pilgrim has all the outward signs of a good life but is miserable inside.
Billy Pilgrim uses an inconsequential Science Fiction writer as his guide in life.
Billy can't sleep at night and can't stay awake at work.
Billy's backwards viewing of the war movie illustrates the cause and effect relationship between events that Tralfamadorians insist does not exist.
Billy's happiest moment in life occurs as he rests on a coffin shaped carriage drawn by two horses. This happy moment is interrupted after seeing the deplorable state of the horses, a sight that causes him to cry for the first time during the war.
Irony: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning (Merriam Webster Dictionary)
Of the four soldiers wandering behind enemy lines after the Battle of the Bulge, Billy Pilgrim is the least soldierly and least likely to survive. He's the only one who survives. He also survives the incineration of Dresden, not bad for an unfit prisoner of war. He is also the lone survivor of an airplane crash.
Edgar Derby is tried and executed for plundering after stealing a teapot from the rubble in Dresden