Chapter 8 term: simile

In chapter eight after the bombing of Dresden, the entire city is barren of anything that can burn.  The city has been reduced to nothing but mineral which is reinforced when Vonnegut uses this simile, "Dresden was like the moon now, nothing but minerals."  Vonnegut also describes the group of Americans and their guards as contemporary space men as they navigated through the foreign face of this new planet created by the bombing.  Vonnegut describes the group in their dire circumstance, "if they were going to continue to survive, they were going to have to climb over curve after curve on the face of the moon."  The bombing of Dresden was so destructive, Vonnegut was forced to describe the city as a foreign object that most people have never seen.