Monday, July 16, 2012
Dresden Simile #2
To me, the simile "it looked like a Sunday school image of Heaven to Billy" symbolizes how some people of today's society are able to find peace and comfort in the darkest of times as Pilgrim and the Americans did in Vonnegut's "...the prettiest city many of the U.S. army had ever seen. The sky was so detailed and strange. It looked like a Sunday school image of Heaven to Billy."
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When Billy desribed this beautiful sight of the city of Dresden, I thought the same too. Billy was deep in despair of war, hardship, and the bitter environment and weather, yet upon arriving to Dresden, Billy had a couple choice words that really seemed like they would have come from a tourist, not a prisoner of war.
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