Thursday, December 31, 2015
Post #3 Week #3 Billy's Crying
Just after the bombing of Dresden when Billy and the other prisoners are being taken to the Russians in a horse and cart Billy starts crying once he sees what horrible condition the horses were in. "Billy hadn't cried about anything in the war" (Vonnegut, 197). I thought that this was strange because Billy was portrayed throughout the rest of the book very weak. I felt like he would have cried at some other time given the stress of being a prisoner of war. Why do you think Billy never cried? Do you think it had something to do with him already knowing everything that was to come? Do you think he felt bad because the horses were treated badly and after being treated badly as a prisoner he didn't want to treat another living thing like that?
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I'm not really sure that there is an exact answer to this question, I think that it is all based on your take on what was going through Billy's mind during the war. But part of me wants to say that he just finally had time to take everything in, all of the horrible things he had seen and witnessed and been through. And everything that he experienced built up until he couldn't help it but cry. I think that it was probably less related to the horses working conditions and more related to just that little bad thing in his whole world of bad things that finally pushed him over the edge to where he couldn't help but cry. Sorry if that doesn't make perfect sense, it is really hard for me to write down what I am thinking regarding this topic.
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