“Anybody ever asks you what the sweetest thing life is-“said Lazarro, “its revenge” (Slaughterhouse-five pg 139). Sweet as what? As sweet as lollipop you just started and you lick repeatedly like if you were a kid? Waiting for your dad in bed, hoping he reads Cinderella and tucks you in. Why is, Cinderella even mentioned in this story? “The boots fit perfectly. Billy pilgrim was Cinderella, and Cinderella was Billy pilgrim.”(Slaughterhouse-five pg 145. Well we have established before that Vonnegut uses satire throughout the novel, and I think is allegorical. The real Cinderella story is in German, its name comes from the cinders in the fireplace and she used to sleep besides them therefore Cinderella. Cinderella’s mom died when she was young and her stepmother killed her father for money. As time passed, the ball came and she had a magical appearance by the ghost of her father who helped her get ready, she forgot her glass slipper and the story begins. Cinderella’s stepsisters tried everything possible to make sure the slipper would fit them, which is when they cut their feet so they glass slipper would fit them.
Why is Vonnegut using Cinderella’s boots, I believe is since Billy does not belong in war he finds this boots and he tries them on waiting for a perfect fit. The next we hear is that Billy pilgrim was Cinderella. Billy after all the war suffering comparing to Cinderella’s suffering with her stepmother was a war, Cinderella got married because of the slippers and Billy solved a problem because of them. I made the connection that is when we see that someone as simple as Billy is a. Like a Campbell soup simple life made great, Billy was nobody why examine him why take the time, why even mock him. Because simplicity is beautiful and Billy is a soul in suffering, like everybody else but seen as great.
Why is Vonnegut using Cinderella’s boots, I believe is since Billy does not belong in war he finds this boots and he tries them on waiting for a perfect fit. The next we hear is that Billy pilgrim was Cinderella. Billy after all the war suffering comparing to Cinderella’s suffering with her stepmother was a war, Cinderella got married because of the slippers and Billy solved a problem because of them. I made the connection that is when we see that someone as simple as Billy is a. Like a Campbell soup simple life made great, Billy was nobody why examine him why take the time, why even mock him. Because simplicity is beautiful and Billy is a soul in suffering, like everybody else but seen as great.
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