CHAPTER TEN - MOOD

One thing that is very noticable is is the mood set by Vonnegut in this chapter. The way he just jumps around stating random facts about death and other events creates a quite blunt atmosphere. "Robert Kennedy, whose summer home is eight miles from the home I live in all year round, was shot two nights ago. He died last night. So it goes. Martin Luther King was shot a month ago. He died, too. So it goes." (p 210). This is not the typical beginning to a chapter. This statement of influential leaders dying is blunt and said with no meaning. Vonnegut's mood in this chapter is solemn and depressing. He, Billy, and Bernard are shoveling through rubble to find dead Dresden citizens. Many die of the aweful odor coming from the rotting bodies. This is depressing and messed up.