“So It Goes”

Reading this chapter I realized that my prediction in my previous blog post was right. As I said, this way of writing really interests me because it goes back and forth in time. The proof of this is when the book says "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time"(P.23 Vonnegut). This form of writing is very interesting because when it goes back to the time that the story is being narrated, it analyzes what happened. This time is used to express regrets or affirmations of what happened in the time narrated.

More than different parts of his life they seem like "separate stories" because he apparently had a very changing life. He talks about 1922 when he was born in Ilium, New York he was not a very good looking guy in his youth he had more of a weak profile, so maybe he wasn't into any sports activity or anything because of his physical description. When he describes the time when he was studying in the Ilium School of Optometry and he got drafted by the military, because this passage lays beside the previous description I suppose happened in that time, Vonnegut also says "His father died in a hunting accident during the war. So it goes" (P.24 Vonnegut).

This "So it goes" I have noticed that it is mentioned by Vonnegut when something of evil nature has happened. I suppose he says this as a subconscious way to close the subject because he really doesn't want to talk about it anymore, especially if it's how his father died.