This weekend I started reading Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Right after I read the first sentence I knew that this book was going to take us to the past. Even though we sometimes try to forget about the past, without it we wouldn’t be the persons we are now a days.
Mary O’Hare caught my attention when she said: “You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more if them. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs".
She believes that if they publish this book about Dresden and then produce a movie, people would start admiring wars and wouldn’t see the negative aspects from it. Mary probably had bad experiences in war and she doesn’t want for her kids to have to pass through the same. The soldiers the kids watch in the movies will become into their role models leading them to war. What’s the point of a war? Why keep promoting it? As the years pass by we have all realized that in war everybody loses, so why keep insisting on it?
In a way I can relate with Mary. Ten years ago a lot of innocent people died due to an act of terrorism known as 9/11. None of us want to go down that memory lane, since we would only see desperate families that lost a loving one. With this event we learned that by standing together you can make a better and bigger impact on the rest of the world. The only way the society was able to manage it so moderate was because thanks to our ancestor’s mistakes we knew that war wasn’t the solution. Looking at the past might bring you bad, but at the same time good memories. How could we evolve without learning from past mistakes?
Andrea first of all i would like to say that i really like your title it seems very original and in someway poetic.Secondly i would like to congratulate you because i think you did an awesome job on your blog not only did you connect the book to the past but you also drew conclusions from the past like when you state "With this event we learned that by standing together you can make a better and bigger impact on the rest of the world."fInally i would like to leave you with a question you agreed with Mary in the sense that we shouldn't be making any sort of war movies because we will promote war , there is a movie that is made to honor 9/11 do you think this is a good or a bad idea ?
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