Slaughterhouse Five section IV (part IV) LAST BLOG!!!

A majority of Slaughterhouse Five is spent describing the horrors of war and how war destroys people's minds. In case readers had not already known, Billy is essentially crazy. War destroyed his mine. He doesn't jump in and out of time because of the Tralfamadorians or the plane crash. Billy is simply a man deranged by the horrors of war and all the death he saw in Dresden. However, I think the most powerful part of the book comes at the end when Vonnegut is talking of a conversation he had with O'Hare about the increasing world population and Vonnegut writes, "'I suppose they will  all want dignity,' I said. 'I suppose,' said O'Hare (p. 212)." I thought this was interesting because Vonnegut spends an entire 211 pages prior telling the tale of Billy and how terrible was is, and then Vonnegut drops this bombshell. I took this line to mean that Vonnegut even agrees that war will always occur and is necessary simply because of the amount of people there are in this world. I think Vonnegut is trying to say that he could spend forever trying to convince everyone that war is a terrible thing and that he would not wish it on anyone, but he also believes that war will always exist. I still think Vonnegut wrote this book because he wants to cause readers to think of the war in a critical way. Unrelated but as a quick note, I enjoyed that he ended the book with the line "Poo-tee-weet?" I still do not know what the question is, but I like how it is symbolic like the birds are with Billy in the beginning and end moments just as Billy thinks people are always alive in moments an memories.