Slaughterhouse five has as much balance as a meth addict. It jumps around and around to different times and different planets. When he dies, nothing happens except a few seconds and then he transports back in time to a random place in his life. As far as the whole antiwar message was, was it just a novel illustrating the heartbreaking effects and damages that a war thrusts upon the world? Was his reasoning the artistry of an awful tone, life's dreary aftermath and the hardships that a soldier must face even after he has "won" or been "saved" from the war? Or was there an economical reasoning with mathematical equations of why we should stand aside from the war when the innocent suffer, or when our freedom is attacked? Maybe I missed it, but it seems like this book is about color. The color grey and not a greater concept. and how the color grey, a continuing grey with no escape, and the bettering of human emotions should be based ahead of war. Sad subject, war is. And no one wins, but what is prevented is the subject matter. And no one can examine what is prevented because it never happens. What is prevented doesn't exist.
Billy Pilgrim never told his wife who he didn't like what tormented him from the war. He couldn't get over the pathetic realness of the war.
WE don't have to be sad, though. The aliens engage in war just like us.
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