Happy Ending?

According to some movies, fairy tales always have a happy ending. Vonnegut states “Billy Pilgrim was Cinderella, and Cinderella was Billy Pilgrim.”(Pg. 145) Why would he compare him to Cinderella, seeing the different circumstances in which they are both living? What message was he trying to send us? Since the moment I read that phrase I was in disagreement with him since they are living in complete different situations. Apparently, Vonnegut was able to see a resemblance between them and this got my thinking about the ending of the book. I already knew that Cinderella was going to have a happy ending, so does this means that the same will happen to Billy?
As I kept on with my reading, I realized that the book wasn’t going to have a good ending since nothing good comes out of a war. War wounds a lot of people and even though time helps them heal, the scars will never disappear.

I was disappointed with the ending of the book. The entire time we were always looking for answers and we were trying to find the lesson that Vonnegut wanted to sent us, but after closing the book I just ended up having even more questions. The last pages describes the death of many of the soldiers, he explains these events in a few words and finishes it with a “so it goes”. Making me believe that so many died that he no longer cared and seeing someone die was as to us seeing a kid playing outside. The last sentence of the book is: “One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, Poo-tee-weet?” (Pg.215) In my opinion I think that he ended up with this sentence so that we can see how non sense the war was. Dresden was so destroyed, that the entire city was quit and they could only hear the surviving birds.

I really enjoyed reading this book because it gave us a different perspective from World War II. It not only describes to us the horrible events that happened during the war, but it also described Billy´s life before and after. This helped us see how the war impacts and changes completely the life of a person. Even though Billy didn’t had the happy ending he would had probably gotten if it wasn’t for the war, he still was a survivor of the war and is probably admired by many.
Vonnegut made me realize and take into account that not many of us appreciate the work that the soldiers in war do. They are putting their lives ahead of the others and they are willing to have a dramatic change in their lives in order for the rest of us to enjoy it.