Thursday, December 24, 2015
Yon Yonson
So I know we have talked a little about it already, but on page 11, Vonnegut narrates, "Eheu, fugaces labuntur anni. My name is Yon Yonson. There was a young man from Stamboul." (Vonnegut, 11). I picked this quote out of the text because it continues to confuse me as to why Vonnegut keeps referring to Yon Yonson, the silly song he told of earlier in the book. He also had a sentence in what I believe to be German, out of no where. The quote is very odd to me, and is alike to many of the other instances when Vonnegut refers to himself as Yon Yonson.
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I feel like Kurt Vonnegut has written this book as if he has ADHD. He skips around and adds odd things here and there, like the german, that have some connection that only he knows. However, I don't see why Kurt Vonnegut would want to add this feel to his writing, do you have any ideas? I also think that Yon Yonson symbolizes the "Average Joe". Billy sees himself as an average person with no real importance.
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