So It Goes

“One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, “Poo-tee-weet?” (sgh5 pg. 215). Why did Vonnegut write the end of the book on bird language? As I read this last chapter I understood one thing life nor death can be explained or reasoned one thing we can’t understand are birds. It is not explainable yet is so simple, so Vonnegut took this chance to write a three-syllable word, who a child of three can understand as not human. We cannot justify war or a massacre is not understandable not something, human beings do with reason.

“Martin Luther king was shot a month ago. He died, too. So it goes.” (Sgh5 pg 210) the so it goes, for me was a demonstration of the things we can do after someone dies which is nothing, maybe go on. So it goes is unavoidable as death so it had to be used as many times. The so it goes is sad like death because it leaves the reader wanting to know more about the piece but it ends suddenly and without an explanation like a human life.

As I read I knew the so it goes was coming wanting to stop it I could not it was a sure thing to expect from the book. However, as I waited for the next so it goes great things in the middle happened, a story developed, and before I knew it the book caught me. Now the end came nothing more to say but simple words as poo-tee-weet. What happened to the so it goes? i wandered, but then I remembered Gilgamesh he is eternal because his city is eternal. The book is still alive! is in our hands whenever we need it, is hidden on our memories .

So one thing I can say I learned from this book is that we are never sure of anything but a so it goes.