CHAPTER ONE - INDECISION

Kurt Vonnegut uses the first chapter to reference how he has made many unsuccessful attempts to write about his experiences in Dresden during World War II. He and his friend Bernard O'Hare have been trying for twenty three years to create a reflection on their life as prisoners in Dresden. Throughout their efforts, many indecisions were had in regards of what to say. These time-consuming indecisions made me recall a quote. "In a minute, there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse" (T.S. Eliot). Eliot explains how it has taken Vonnegut so long to create this novel of Dresden. Vonnegut has experience many relapses of what happened during the bombings and cannot decide what to write. If there was one thing this chapter represented, it would be the "introduction" to the book that Vonnegut is creating.