II. When it's Gone.

After I read the second chapter of slughterhouse-five I now have a better prespective of  Billy’s personality and past.

Billy starts talking about his own life in chapter one, but now the narrator is some one omicient, a third person. Who is it? Who is watching and knows Billys life? Maybe we’ll never now, but it’s a constant doubt in my mind.

Billy’s life seems to be very ironic. At the end of each memory narrated about the war it quotes “So it goes.” This happens when the narrator talks about something really ironic which is not in any sense normal, or happy. “His father died in a hunting accident during the war. So it goes.” Or when he is the only one who survived a plane crash, and his wife dies.

I also liked a quote said on his second letter published. “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.” This quote made me realize how precious time is, and how you should spend each moment of your life well because you don’t know when its going to end, and you will only start missing everything when its gone and regret all o the chances you didn’t take.