Slaughterhouse-Five 1. Explore the use of "So it goes." Is it to be viewed as resignation to the horrors of death? Is it Billy's response? Vonnegut's? Yours? “So it goes” is Billy Pilgrim’s theory regarding death. He is simply saying that death is no big deal. Since he saw so much death in World War II, and witnessed a bombing two times as worse as Hiroshima, he deals with death much differently than others. Because …showed first 75 words of 953 total…

…showed last 75 words of 953 total…stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever” (27). Since Billy has traveled many times to Tralfamadore, he uses all of their theories in his life.