Chapter 3 term: Irony

Vonnegut opens the third chapter of the novel with examples of irony.  The first of the two that I spotted come when he begins to describe the newly adopted war dog of the German soldiers.  The dog was taken from a farmer and was a female German shepherd.  The irony of the situation comes in the name of the canine: "She had never been to war before.... Her name was princess."  The dog is named princess which is not the first name that comes to mind when I think of a war dog.  The next example of irony is the description of Weary's Bible.  The holy book is created to be bulletproof.  Making the holy Bible bulletproof caused me to find a bit of humor in the story.  The holiest of all books should in no situation ever be shot at or in the presence of shooting.  The book that clearly states: "Thou shall not kill" should not be around the holocaust of World War II.