Chapter 10

In the final chapter of the book, Billy’s life is brought together by the end of the war. To me, war was a symbol of life not only in this chapter, but the whole book. Just like war, life has it’s ups and downs, and you obtain new friendships and also lose some friendships. Billy definitely lost and gained people throughout his life. His wife and father, for example, both had passed. Regarding the dead, the Tralfamadorians said that Charles Darwin “taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes” (269).