At the beginning of the novel, Vonnegut mentions a man who got shot for simply stealing a teapot. Yes, the death of that man was not necessary, but the people …show more content…
The most well known story is the story of Noah’s Arc. Although God flooded the earth to get rid of the evil, why are his actions not considered sinful? War is justified sin, much like the actions of God and Americans glorify war the way Christians worship God. Although Americans are aware that soldiers are going to other countries to kill and destroy the lives of innocent people, they support them in any way possible. Due to the invisible concept war, soldiers are held on a pedestal because citizens are brainwashed to believe that soldiers will remove evil from the world. No matter how many people they kill or how many families they destroy, the actions of soldiers will never be seen as a sin. At the beginning of the war in Dresden Billy is with his friend, Weary, all of the time. Weary described a knife with a triangular blade to Billy, and when Billy asked why the blade was triangular, Weary responded that the blade “ [m]akes a wound that will not close up.” At that point, it became clear that this was not going to be an ordinary war. Weary wanted the citizens of Dresden to suffer and live with an everlasting pain, much like the description of eternity in Hell. it was Weary and Billy’s job to make the lives of those in Dresden a live in