Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Chapter four term: imagery
Midway through the forth chapter of the novel, Vonnegut uses an odd image to describe people as they unloaded the train. The people were described as being a liquid that "...began to flow. Gobs of it built up in the doorway, plopped to the ground." He continued this use of the liquid flow when describing the dead hobo: "The hobo could not flow, could not plop. He wasn't liquid anymore. He was stone." This description of the group of captured Americans really describes the lifelessness they felt after being captured in the war.
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I completely agree with you. The people who were captured and forced to go to war were absolutely lifeless and worked like "liquid". They continued to flow through their daily routines that they were forced to do everyday. If one soldier was to refuse his duties, he would be severely punished.
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